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  • 'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

      Teaching History article
    Christine Counsell describes a lively activity, ideal for Year 9, in which pupils compare and interrelate a collection of sources. The activity leads pupils into thinking about the sources as a collection, and about the enquiry as an evidential problem. Or at least it can do. The article discusses the...
    'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

  • Gladstone spiritual or Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2

      Teaching History article
    Rather than taking a sledgehammer approach to planning for the new AS and A2 courses Gary Howells has used the opportunity to reflect on characteristics of students' historical learning in the post-16 phase. He argues for a much fuller rationale for using documents than mere preparation for exams or coursework....
    Gladstone spiritual or Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2

  • Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical

      Teaching History article
    Two years ago the history department at Hampstead School was one of two history departments chosen to model very effective use of IT in history for a BECTA research study. Two years on, what has the department been up to? All of the factors identified in that study -an ICT...
    Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical

  • Triumphs Show 123: Making sources fun

      Teaching History feature
    One of the biggest challenges which any history teacher faces is how to make sources fun! Source work does struggles in terms of pupil excitement, understanding and motivation when pitted against the roleplays, dramas and debates. As a history teacher, I am constantly looking for fresh and novel ways to...
    Triumphs Show 123: Making sources fun

  • Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year. Melville has taught a number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding. His diagnostic assessment of pupils' work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student. Melville's...
    Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

  • Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

      Teaching History feature
    Julian Critchley demonstrates how role play can be used to explain military history.
    Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

  • Triumphs Show 120.1 - Is music the answer to the Irish question in schools?

      Teaching History feature
    Ian Ollerenshaw shares with us a way to help GCSE pupils understand the complexities of the ‘Irish Question’ and start to empathise with diverse perspectives. He uses a medium – music – that is familiar to teenagers, beginning with their own music before moving on to songs specifically about Ireland.
    Triumphs Show 120.1 - Is music the answer to the Irish question in schools?

  • Triumphs Show 119: bringing the big picture to life using a 3D rollercoaster

      Teaching History feature
    In this edition of 'Triumphs Show' Kate Dacey demonstrates the effectiveness of visual stimuli in improving pupils' historical understanding. Dacey achieved this by using a 3D wall display to depict the turbulent period of the Reformation.
    Triumphs Show 119: bringing the big picture to life using a 3D rollercoaster

  • Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Dave Woodcraft is passionate about engaging students and making them care about the past. He is unrepentant about wanting his lessons to have an emotional impact and a relevant, immediate appeal. To this end, he frequently uses modern parallels in his classroom to make the point that issues in the...
    Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

  • Polychronicon 113: slavery in 20th-century America

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' is on 'Interpreting...
    Polychronicon 113: slavery in 20th-century America

  • Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of the 'Triumphs Show' explains 'How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8'.
    Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

  • Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

      Article
    Using the experiences of William Bent and his family in the 1860s, this resource was designed to develop different kinds of historical thinking. For example, it highlights what a turning point the Sand Creek massacre proved to be.
    Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

  • Triumphs Show 110: Would you sacrifice watching television for Great Britain?

      Teaching History feature
    This lesson has worked well with higher ability whole classes and with smaller groups with Special Educational Needs. It is essentially a citizenship exercise. It encourages pupils to explore their own values, to justify these values through argument and, through discussion, to understand and accept that others might hold different...
    Triumphs Show 110: Would you sacrifice watching television for Great Britain?

  • Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

      Teaching History feature
    Why is it, I wonder, that Rednock students enjoy their history so much and why have so many opted for the subject at ‘AS’ Level? This new course, designed to bridge the gap between GCSE and ‘A’ Level, has allowed a new calibre of student to enrol. The ability range,...
    Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

  • Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

      Teaching History feature
    It was the brainwave of the English department to bring in a script writer to work with Key Stage 3 students of the full ability range writing the lower school production. This was too good an opportunity for the history department to miss.
    Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

  • Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

      Teaching History feature
    Heather Scott gives a detailed account of the opening of a new HA branch in West Yorkshire.
    Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

  • Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

      Teaching History feature
    With the summer break stretching forth its welcome hand and the final lesson with my lowband Year 7 class looming, I wanted to ensure that the enthusiasm and dedication that this class had shown throughout the year was kept alive over the holiday period. We had been studying the Norman...
    Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

  • Triumphs Show 101: enthusing Year 8 about Oliver Cromwell

      Teaching History article
    Heather Scott explains how a two week written project on Oliver Cromwell motivated and enthused a Year 8 class.
    Triumphs Show 101: enthusing Year 8 about Oliver Cromwell

  • Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

      Teaching History feature
    Phil Smith demonstrates how active learning can motivate GCSE groups.
    Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

  • Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

      Teaching History Article
    The question of what to include is a constant challenge to those given the responsibility of education, whether writing at the level of a national curriculum or the departmental scheme of work. Dan Lyndon and his department have been rethinking inclusion in history. In any school, representative history is essential...
    Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

  • Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

      Teaching History article
    One of the challenges facing pupils in the history classroom is conceptual understanding. Pupils also find it difficult to recognise themes or patterns across different parts of time and space. Ian Myson has recognised the importance of analogy as a way to facilitate pupils’ understanding. He is quick to recognise,...
    Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

  • Voices from Rwanda: when seeing is better than hearing

      Teaching History article
    Where were you when you last witnessed history being formed? How did you know that the events you had witnessed would turn out to be significant? The missile attack on a plane in Rwanda on 6 April 1994 passed Martyn Beer by at the time. It was later that he...
    Voices from Rwanda: when seeing is better than hearing

  • Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their casual reasoning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Does new vocabulary help students to express existing ideas for which they do not yet have words or does it actually give them new ideas which they did not previously hold? James Woodcock asks whether...
    Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their casual reasoning

  • Learning about an 800-year-old fight can't be all that bad, can it? Its like what Simon and Kane did yesterday': modern-day parallels in history

      Teaching History article
    Deborah Robbins charts a story of her own learning during the PGCE year. She explains how she identified a point of interest in her own practice - the use of modern-day examples. Turning this into a focus for testing her own hypotheses, she theorised from her own lessons to produce...
    Learning about an 800-year-old fight can't be all that bad, can it? Its like what Simon and Kane did yesterday': modern-day parallels in history

  • Seeing, hearing and doing the Renaissance (Part 1): Let's have a Renaissance party!

      Teaching History article
    In two, linked articles, appearing in this and the next edition, Maria Osowiecki shares an account of a five-lesson enquiry, based on the concept of historical significance (National Curriculum Key Element 2e) for mixed ability Year 8. She wanted to experiment with an array of creative teaching techniques that would...
    Seeing, hearing and doing the Renaissance (Part 1): Let's have a Renaissance party!