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  • 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

  • Do we need another hero? Rorke's Drift

      Teaching History article
    Do we need another hero? Year 8 get to grips with the heroic myth of the Defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879 Mike Murray shares a lesson sequence in which his students examined changing interpretations of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879. Building on earlier work on teaching interpretations...
    Do we need another hero? Rorke's Drift

  • Year 9 - Connecting past, present and future

      Teaching History article
    Possible futures: using frameworks of knowledge to help Year 9 connect past, present and future How can we help pupils integrate history into coherent ‘Big Pictures' or mental frameworks? Building on traditions of classroom research and theorising reported in earlier editions of Teaching History, Dan Nuttall reports how his department set...
    Year 9 - Connecting past, present and future

  • Developing students' thinking about change and continuity

      Teaching History article
    The more things change, the more they stay the same: developing students' thinking about change and continuity Finding ways to characterise the nature of change and continuity is an important part of the historian's task, yet students find it particularly challenging to do. Building on her previous work on change, Rachel...
    Developing students' thinking about change and continuity

  • Marr: magpie or marsh harrier?

      Teaching History article
    The quest for the common characteristics of the genus ‘historian' with 16- to 19-year-olds Diana Laffin writes about historical language and explores how understanding different historians' use of language can help sixth form students refine and deepen both their understanding of the discipline of history and their abilities to practise...
    Marr: magpie or marsh harrier?

  • Transforming historical understanding through scripted drama

      Teaching History article
    An article on scripted drama might seem an unlikely choice for an edition devoted to getting students talking. Surely the point about a script is that the words used are chosen and prescribed by others. However, the examples presented here by Helen Snelson, Ruth Lingard and Kate Brennan demonstrate how...
    Transforming historical understanding through scripted drama

  • Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

      Teaching History feature
    Using pupil dialogue to encourage sophisticated engagement with source material - even at GCSE! Frustrated by the mechanistic approach that their pupils were using when working with historical sources, Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale sought to experiment with a method of teaching sources which eschewed practice source questions in favour...
    Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

  • Triumphs Show 148.1: collaborating to commemorate Olaudah Equiano

      Teaching History feature
    How a drink in the bar at the SHP conference - and discovery of a shared interest in ICT - led to the campaign for a Blue Plaque for an eighteenth-century abolitionist. What do the 1970 Brazil World Cup-winning team, Charles Darwin and Vanilla Ice all have in common? This...
    Triumphs Show 148.1: collaborating to commemorate Olaudah Equiano

  • Time and chronology: conjoined twins or distant cousins?

      Teaching History article
    Weaknesses in pupils' grasp of historical chronology are a commonplace in popular discussion of the state of history education. However, as Blow, Lee and Shemilt argue, although undoubtedly necessary and fundamental, mastery of chronological conventions is not sufficient: the difficulties that pupils experience when learning history are conceptual, as much...
    Time and chronology: conjoined twins or distant cousins?

  • Looking through a Josephine-Butler shaped window: focusing pupils' thinking on historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Christine Counsell draws upon her recent work in developing definitions and practice concerning pupils' thinking about historical significance. Here she tries out those ideas in relation to the 19th century campaigner against the Contagious Diseases Acts,  Josephine Butler. Counsell explains why she developed her own set of criteria for structuring...
    Looking through a Josephine-Butler shaped window: focusing pupils' thinking on historical significance

  • Exploring pupils' difficulties when arguing about a diverse past

      Teaching History article
    Wrestling with diversity: exploring pupils' difficulties when arguing about a diverse past How can we develop students' ability to argue about diversity? Sarah Black explores this question through classroom research that set out to help students think in complex ways about diversity, drawing on Burbules' work on conceptualising difference and...
    Exploring pupils' difficulties when arguing about a diverse past

  • Triumphs Show 146: putting an enquiry together

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Department meetings have a range of purposes, and all teachers will be aware of some of the more tedious tasks that have to be completed at such meetings. The most exciting meetings for us are those where we can sit down as a history department and design a new enquiry....
    Triumphs Show 146: putting an enquiry together

  • Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

      Teaching History article
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society Elizabeth Carr writes here about a new scheme of work she developed to teach students about diversity in Victorian society. When dealing with a concept such as diversity, it can be easy for students to slip into stereotypes based...
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

  • Community engagement in local history

      Teaching History article
    This article, by Lynda Abbott and Richard Grayson, offers a fascinating example of collaboration between school and university, focused on the development of a community archive. The project - run as an extra-curricular activity - was originally inspired by a concern to preserve the personal stories of those whose lives...
    Community engagement in local history

  • Northamptonshire in a Global Context

      Key Stages 2 and 3
    Produced by the Northamptonshire Black History Association and originally published in 2008, this is one of a set of resources for schools offering a more inclusive map of the past that includes an appreciation of Black History within the local, national and global context. The resources provide a range of opportunities to promote diversity within the curriculum....
    Northamptonshire in a Global Context

  • Using ‘Assessment for Learning' to help students assume responsibility

      Teaching History article
    Robin Conway's interest in student led enquiry derived from a concern to encourage his students to take much more responsibility for their own learning. Here he explains how his department gradually learned to entrust students with defining the enquiry questions and planning the kinds of teaching and learning activities to be...
    Using ‘Assessment for Learning' to help students assume responsibility

  • Pupil-led historical enquiry: what might this actually be?

      Teaching History article
    The current National Curriculum for history requires pupils to ‘identify and investigate specific historical questions, making and testing hypotheses for themselves'. While Kate Hammond relished the encouragement that this gave to her pupils to engage in the process of historical enquiry, she was keen to develop a much clearer sense...
    Pupil-led historical enquiry: what might this actually be?

  • Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines

      Teaching History article
    The small-scale research that Yosanne Vella reports in this article was driven by concern to help pupils develop ‘big picture' visions of the past and to engage effectively with the idea of change as a process rather than an event. The strategy that she adopts - asking groups of students...
    Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines

  • Passive receivers or constructive readers?

      Teaching History article
    Rachel Foster reports here on research that she conducted into how students engage with academic texts. Unhappy with the usual range of texts that students encounter, often truncated and ‘simplified' in the name of accessibility, she designed a scheme of work which sought to find out how her students responded...
    Passive receivers or constructive readers?

  • Causation maps: emphasising chronology in causation exercises

      Teaching History article
    Analogies for teaching about causation abound. Rick Rogers is alert, however, to the risks inherent in drawing on everyday ideas to explain historical processes. What most often gets lost is the importance of the chronological dimension; both the length of time during which some contributory causes may have been present,...
    Causation maps: emphasising chronology in causation exercises

  • Nazi perpetrators in Holocaust education

      Teaching History article
    The Holocaust is often framed, in textbooks and exam syllabi, from a perpetrator perspective as a narrative of Nazi policy. We are offered a different orientation here. Interrogating and understanding the Holocaust involves understanding why the people who perpetrated the Holocaust did the things that they did. As Wolf Kaiser...
    Nazi perpetrators in Holocaust education

  • What is Bias?

      Article
    There is a nice story about how Calvin Coolidge went to hear a clergyman preach on sin. "What did he say?" he was asked. 'He said he was against it', Coolidge replied. The history teacher or student, well used by now to the normal form of questions at GCSE, might...
    What is Bias?

  • Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

      Teaching History feature
    Who would true valour see...let him (or her) lead a school re-enactment group While many teachers may have called on the services of historical re-enactors to inspire their students and create a living sense of the past, few have taken on the challenge of establishing their own historical re-enactment group....
    Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

  • From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

      Teaching History article
    Tim Jenner was working on a causation enquiry with his Year 7 students when he noticed that weak conceptions of change were limiting their ability to produce powerful and period-sensitive arguments. He therefore decided to digress into a temporary but explicit focus on analysing historical change. He created a deceptively...
    From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?

      Teaching History feature
    For such a boldly iconoclastic work, the Key Stage 3 textbook A New Focus on ... British Social History, c.1920–2000 (2023) provides a disarmingly conventional account of youth in the 1960s as ‘mostly better educated and informed than their parents had been at their age [and able] … to find...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?