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  • History in Schools - Present and Future

      Conference Report
    History in Schools - Present and future: Event report This one day conference was organised by the sponsors to raise awareness of the changes in the 14-19 curriculum and initiate discussion on how history, taught from Key Stage 3 to HE level, could be best served and enhanced by the...
    History in Schools - Present and Future

  • Past Forward: Introduction

      Article
    The Historical Association held a major conference on history education, at the Cherwell School, Oxford on Saturday 28th September 2002. Entitled ‘Past Forward: A Vision for School History 2002-2012’, it was a celebration of recent trends in history teaching and a chance to reflect critically on where history education needs...
    Past Forward: Introduction

  • Past Forward: A vision for school history 2002-2012

      Book
    The Historical Association held a major conference on history education at the Cherwell School, Oxford on Saturday 28th September 2002. Entitled 'Past Forward: A Vision for School History 2002-2012', it was a celebration of recent trends in history teaching and a chance to reflect critically on where history education needs...
    Past Forward: A vision for school history 2002-2012

  • The importance of history

      Article
    The importance of history: Powerpoint presentation from the Regional Subject CfBT/HA ConferencesStarting point. Creating a departmental vision.The construction of any curriculum begins with questions about the purpose and philosophy of the curriculum. The new orders for history offer departments a ready made statement of history's importance and purpose.
    The importance of history

  • The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

      HITT Resource
    Level 4 Pupils show their knowledge and understanding of local, national and international history by describing some of the main events, people and periods they have studied, and by identifying where these fit within a chronological framework. They describe characteristic features of past societies and periods to identify change and...
    The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

  • Achieving progression from the GCSE to AS

      Teaching History article
    As the new specifications [as we must all learn to call them] arrive in schools and colleges, we must all grapple with the concept of a new qualification - a new AS representing an intermediate standard. What does AS involve? In what ways does it represent progression from GCSE? Angela...
    Achieving progression from the GCSE to AS

  • Reflections on the Empathy Debate

      Article
    Not only do the various discussions on empathy show no signs of abating, they remain as confusing and emotionally charged as ever. On the one hand, much of the empathy argument is concerned with...
    Reflections on the Empathy Debate

  • Cunning Plan 132: Year 7 and the new National Curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    How can we plan for a coherent Year 7 that makes the most of the new National Curriculum freedom and its almost limitless possible content? Answer: borders, boundaries (and books) Please note: this article was published before the current 2014 National Curriculum.
    Cunning Plan 132: Year 7 and the new National Curriculum

  • A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme (pre-2014)

      Key Stage 3 Guide
    Please note: this unit was produced for a previous national curriculum (pre-2014). However, much of the advice remains useful and it provides a context to topics that continue to be very important for history teachers. Subject leaders, ITE providers and others may find it useful to consider how currently relevant topics were...
    A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme (pre-2014)

  • Planning and Teaching the New Key Stage 3 PoS

      Website Link
    These notes, ideas and teaching suggestions have developed from CPD courses run over the last few years and from planning and developing SHP resources for the new KS3 programme. Inevitably, it's a statement of current thinking with ideas constantly developing but I hope it proves useful and practical in helping...
    Planning and Teaching the New Key Stage 3 PoS

  • History's future: facing the challenge

      Teaching History article
    Trevor Fisher argues that pressures on our subject are now so intense and multi-faceted that a wider coalition is necessary if history is to fight back. Our difficulties are compounded, he suggests, by a lack of consensus and by acute lack of knowledge about school history among those who produce...
    History's future: facing the challenge

  • Resources from the HA/CfBT Regional Conferences Part 1

      Article
    The HA has held nine regional conferences across England in London, Norwich, Leeds, Leicester, Reading, Darlington, Bristol, Birmingham and Bolton to train history teachers in ways to tackle the New Key Stage 3 Curriculum. Please find below the PowerPoint presentations that went with morning introduction>>>
    Resources from the HA/CfBT Regional Conferences Part 1

  • Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

      Teaching History article
    David Nicholls summarises some of the problems facing history education and offers a commentary on various cases for reform. He argues that we need to look at provision holistically from 5 to 21 and urges collaboration across phases and sectors. By working more closely together, the history community as a...
    Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

  • The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. QCA's scheme of work for history at Key Stage 3, together with similar schemes for other subjects, has been published in response to widespread requests for more guidance on curriculum planning. Heather Richardson, Subject Officer (history)...
    The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

  • Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

      Article
    Isobel Jenkins and Mike Turpin answer some of those basic questions which many history teachers are afraid to ask, like ‘What exactly is it anyway?' and ‘Is this really worth my valuable time?' They outline the internet's value as a means of improving information access and as a way of...
    Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

  • Tripping over the levels: experiences from Ontario

      Teaching History article
    Here in the United Kingdom, we are used to the idea of assessing pupils’ work against Levels. In fact, perhaps we are a little too used to it. Our familiarity with the Level Descriptions in the National Curriculum, and the ways they might inform our Key Stage 3 assessments, can...
    Tripping over the levels: experiences from Ontario

  • The hidden crisis in GCSE History

      Teaching History article
    Joining the debate launched in the last edition, John Dixon argues that in relation to competing subjects, history has become harder. He believes that this could be reviewed without loss of standards. He highlights what he sees as a perverse situation of conflicting trends: on the one hand, practice in...
    The hidden crisis in GCSE History

  • Who wants to fight? Who wants to flee? Teaching history from a 'thinking skills' perspective

      Teaching History article
    Whatever shape the National Curriculum of the 21st century takes, history will have to show its relevance to major curricular areas and themes such as literacy, citizenship education and thinking skills. This ought to be easy: the critical, informed decision-making required by the modern citizen is practised in virtually every...
    Who wants to fight? Who wants to flee? Teaching history from a 'thinking skills' perspective

  • Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor

      Article
    Ben Walsh argues that many teachers of history completely miss the point of the word processor. Criticising those who use it merely for 'typing up' he reminds us that the purpose of the word processor, as with any other resource, is to teach good history. He analyses the types of...
    Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor

  • Move Me On 110: Confused by the Key Stage 3 Strategy

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Winston is confused by the Key Stage 3 Strategy.
    Move Me On 110: Confused by the Key Stage 3 Strategy

  • More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current national curriculum With the first teaching of a revised history curriculum due in September 2008 the debate over content and order is well under way. Robert Guyver, involved in the design of the curriculum development experiment that evolved into the 1991 version of...
    More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3

  • Subject exemplification of the Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum for ICT: how the history examples were developed

      Article
    David Linsell describes how the Teacher Training Agency's history working group provided history-specific examples for the new ICT initial teacher training National Curriculum. He stresses the group's ‘history first' thinking. The aim was to provide realistic examples of ICT use, through which trainee teachers might develop and ultimately demonstrate their...
    Subject exemplification of the Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum for ICT: how the history examples were developed

  • Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Mike Tillbrook examines the impact of the new AS and A2 courses, raising several serious concerns. He explores problems for effective and rigorous assessment as well as implications of the new course structure for the quality and range of historical learning. Critical of new restrictions in content, he suggests that...
    Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum

  • "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

      Teaching History article
    In contrast with earlier studies which presented a bleak picture of the impact of history teaching, Paul Goalen presents a small-scale study that is optimistic. For pupils in three schools at least, the history teaching of the late 1990s seems to be winning through. Goalen argues that the National Curriculum...
    "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

  • New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective

      Teaching History article
    In September 2002 Citizenship becomes a completely new subject in England’s secondary schools. Jerome Freeman, Principal Officer for History with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) — the authority responsible for advising the British government on curriculum content and qualification standards in England - outlines QCA’s view on the connections...
    New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective