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  • Why are you wearing a watch? Complicating narratives of economic and social progress

      Teaching History article
    Frustrated by the traditional narrative of the industrial revolution as a steady march of progress, and disappointed by her students’ dull and deterministic statements about historical change, Hannah Sibona decided to complicate the tidy narrative of continual improvement. Inspired by an article by E.P. Thompson, Sibona reflected that introducing her...
    Why are you wearing a watch? Complicating narratives of economic and social progress

  • Effective essay introductions

      Teaching History article
    Struck by the dullness of some of her students’ essay introductions, Paula Worth reflected on the fact that she had never focused specifically on introductions. After surveying existing work by history teachers on essay structure in general and introductions in particular, she turns to the work of historians. Drawing on...
    Effective essay introductions

  • Building meaningful models of progression

      Teaching History article
    Setting us free? Building meaningful models of progression for a ‘post-levels' world Alex Ford was thrilled by the prospect of freedom offered to history departments in England by the abolition of level descriptions within the National Curriculum. After analysing the range of competing purposes that the level  descriptions were previously...
    Building meaningful models of progression

  • Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on challenges that had surfaced in their own and others’ efforts to get pupils to write historical narratives, Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie went back to the drawing board to consider the disciplinary purposes of narrative. They used both historical scholarship and theoretical works by historians on narrative construction....
    Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

  • Drilling down: how one history department is working towards progression in pupils' thinking about diversity across Years 7, 8 and 9

      Teaching History article
    Matthew Bradshaw shares the early, tentative efforts of his history department to shape a new Key Stage 3 workscheme in the light of the 2008 National Curriculum for England. While his department's scheme is designed to secure progression in all conceptual areas, he chooses to focus here on the concept...
    Drilling down: how one history department is working towards progression in pupils' thinking about diversity across Years 7, 8 and 9

  • The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

      Article
    The arrival of sources of evidence into secondary school history classrooms amounted to a small revolution. What began as a radical development is now establishment orthodoxy, with both GCSE and now National Curriculum in England and Wales enshrining its principles. Tony McAleavy pays tribute to some of the thinkers and...
    The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

  • Absence and myopia in A-level coursework

      Teaching History article
    It is a charge commonly laid at history teachers that we, myopically, teach only the same-old same-old. Steven Driver has taken extreme steps to avoid this by focusing on a particular neglected event – the American occupation of Nicaragua in the early twentieth century – as part of his preparation...
    Absence and myopia in A-level coursework

  • Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    A great deal of new writing on the Cold War sits at the crossroads of national, transnational and global perspectives. Such studies can be so self-consciously multi-archival and multipolar, methodologically pluralist in approach and often ‘decentring’ in aim, that some scholars now worry that the Cold War risks losing its coherence as a distinct object of...
    Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

  • Cunning Plan 179: using TV producers’ techniques to make the most effective use of retrieval practice

      Teaching History feature
    Last year I was working with colleagues on a project examining Rosenshine’s principle of beginning lessons with a short review of previous learning.1 At the same time I was working with a history trainee who had been using recall quizzes as a starter with GCSE students. Following a lesson observation,...
    Cunning Plan 179: using TV producers’ techniques to make the most effective use of retrieval practice

  • Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum

      Teaching History feature
    This Cunning Plan details an enquiry that I developed in order to achieve two curricular goals: to diversify our historical content and to help students to improve their disciplinary thinking and writing about similarity and difference. The enquiry addresses medieval Africa, specifically the East African kingdom of Aksum (approximately 300...
    Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum

  • Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources

      Teaching History feature
    The principles outlined here were developed in response to three key concerns. The first was consideration of the needs of students learning English as an additional language who face particular challenges with reading and writing. Images could perhaps offer them more direct, less abstract, ways into an understanding of challenging...
    Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources

  • Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism

      Teaching History article
    ‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an overview of antisemitism Research by the Centre for Holocaust Education has suggested that students need and want more help with building an overview of the historical roots of antisemitism and that they...
    Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism

  • Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past

      Teaching History article
    Jacob Olivey wanted Year 8 to know that ordinary people in the nineteenth century constructed their own identities. In this reflection on how his practice developed in his training year, Olivey illustrates the importance of using historical scholarship in choosing foundational knowledge to teach. He shows how he used that...
    Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past

  • Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

      Teaching History article
    ‘Empathy with edge' was the editorial description given eight years ago to the kind of historical fiction that Dave Martin and Beth Brooke first argued history students should be writing (TH 108). The winning entries from the annual ‘Write Your Own Historical Story Competition' to which their work gave rise...
    Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

  • Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking

      Teaching History article
    A case study in professional thinking Michael Fordham examines the evolution of his own practice as an example of how history teachers draw upon collective, professional knowledge constructed by other history teachers in journals, books, conferences and seminars. Fordham explains how a  particular Year 7 enquiry examining historical change from the...
    Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking

  • What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Robin Conway suspected that his students’ concepts of the significance of different aspects of historical periods was affected by the preconceptions that they brought to his lessons. These preconceptions were leading his students into making unhistorical judgments, without any real understanding on their part of what had affected their thinking....
    What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

  • Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
    Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

  • Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

      Teaching History feature
    Enquiry Question: What's worth knowing about the First World War? At the end of our scheme of work on the First World War, I asked myself how I might encourage my Year 9 pupils to reflect on the historical significance of the events we had studied. I was particularly interested...
    Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

  • Period, place and mental space

      Teaching History article
    Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by...
    Period, place and mental space

  • Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time

      Teaching History article
    Where's the other ‘c'? Year 9 examine continuity in the treatment of mental health through time Helen Murray, Rachel Burney and Andrew Stacey-Chapman show how they strengthened three goals of their practice - secure knowledge, narrative shapes and conceptual analysis - by securing strong connection between them. The curricular focus...
    Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time

  • Bringing psychology into history: why do some stories disappear?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is always a relationship between the present and the past and the meaning of the past shifts as values and events change in the present. In this article Anne Llewellyn and Helen Snelson use...
    Bringing psychology into history: why do some stories disappear?

  • Using the Attainment Target in Key Stage 3: Interpretations of History

      Article
    An individual's knowledge of history is dependent not only on the events of the past but also on the way such events are presented. These presentations of the past come in a variety of forms and an educated person should be able to reflect purposefully on their worth...
    Using the Attainment Target in Key Stage 3: Interpretations of History

  • Maybe they haven't decided yet what is right: English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Historians and history teachers understand well that students, when they ‘answer’ questions, are creating their own interpretation. We take account of this in our teaching too: we do not pretend that, beyond the level of the simplest closed questioning, there is ever a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer approach to history....
    Maybe they haven't decided yet what is right: English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance

  • Move Me On 165: Capturing student interest vs. sense of period

      Teaching History feature
    This issue’s problem: In her concern to capture students’ interest Jennet Preston tends to present people in the past as weird and wonderful aliens... Jennet Preston has come into teaching as a second career, following a break to look after her young children. She is enthusiastic and full of ideas for...
    Move Me On 165: Capturing student interest vs. sense of period

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?

      Teaching History feature
    The murder of George Floyd during the summer of 2020 and the ongoing ‘culture war’ in Britain over the legacy of the British Empire have reignited interest in imperial history. This focuses, in particular, on the question of the empire’s impact on Britain itself: on how the act of conquering...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?