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  • Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley

      Teaching History article
    Thelma Wiltshire applies a ‘telling' and ‘suggesting' strategy to an enquiry involving an historical site. Getting beyond more simplistic approaches to ‘fact' and ‘opinion', she describes how a pack of curriculum materials was designed to give pupils a precise language to talk about layers of certainty and uncertainty in their...
    Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

      Article
    The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

  • Climate change: greening the curriculum?

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the news that Bristol had become the UK’s first Green Capital, Kate Hawkey, Jon James and Celia Tidmarsh set out to explore what a ‘Green Capital’ School Curriculum  might look like. They explain how they created a cross-curricular project to deliver in-school workshops focused on the teaching of...
    Climate change: greening the curriculum?

  • Deconstructing lazy analogies in Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on the continuing problem of students holding an impoverished understanding of the value or ‘uses' of history, Steve Rollett turned his attention to the question of analogy. He took the axiom to which students make common appeal (‘we can learn from mistakes in the past') and set about trying...
    Deconstructing lazy analogies in Year 9

  • Using narratives and big pictures to address the challenges of a 2-year KS3 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Faced with cutting her Key Stage 3 curriculum to two years, Natalie Kesterton and her department were determined to do more with less. Not only did they want to ensure that their pupils developed a secure, wide-ranging knowledge of British and world history, they also wanted to address deficits in pupils’...
    Using narratives and big pictures to address the challenges of a 2-year KS3 curriculum

  • World War 2 Website

      Link
    WW2History.com is a multimedia resource on World War II, brought to you by award winning historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees. The site was designed and built by Sunday Publishing on behalf of renowned historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees. It is designed to be an accessible and authoritative resource on World...
    World War 2 Website

  • A noisy classroom is a thinking classroom: speaking and listening in Year 7 history

      Teaching History article
    Rachael Rudham describes the thinking and discussion that led her department to plan systematically for the integration of speaking and listening tasks into Year 7 history lessons. Speaking and listening is a serious business; it is not a ‘light’ option, argues Rachael, and it should never be used as a...
    A noisy classroom is a thinking classroom: speaking and listening in Year 7 history

  • Cunning Plan 163.1: GCSE Thematic study

      Teaching History feature
    I started teaching ‘crime and punishment through time’ thematically a few years ago. I was teaching it as a Schools History Project ‘study in development’. We had moved from ‘medicine through time’ in order to keep things fresh. After six times through the content, much as I loved it, crime,...
    Cunning Plan 163.1: GCSE Thematic study

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 153: Good Enquiry Questions

      Teaching History feature
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 153: Good Enquiry Questions

  • Triumphs Show 128: Speed-dating with Queen Elizabeth

      Teaching History feature
     Some of the most effective role play activities are those which draw on the common experiences of pupils to promote serious learning outcomes. Chris Higgins experiments with a number of situations and strategies that draw upon popular games and television show formats. These are used to engage, to provide structure...
    Triumphs Show 128: Speed-dating with Queen Elizabeth

  • Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Good history teaching should not be the responsibility of a single department working in isolation. The history subject community as a whole should work together to ensure that history teaching is of as high a quality as possible. This does not mean that every department, and every teacher, should do...
    Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

  • 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

  • Assessment and planning for progression at Key Stage 3

      HA Guide and Links
    The 2014 National Curriculum does not include an attainment target or any specified level against which you are expected to assess pupils' progress. The new attainment target says simply that: ‘By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes...
    Assessment and planning for progression at Key Stage 3

  • Britain 1900-1918

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Writing the First World War - Podcasts Richard Evans Medlicott lecture: The Origins of the First World War Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War   The Parliament Act of 1911 The Suffragette Movement - Podcast LGBT History 1914-18 Domestic impact of World War I  First World War treaties...
    Britain 1900-1918

  • Triumphs Show 193: Year 8 imagine the First World War trenches

      Article
    Deep into my PGCE year, I found myself discussing with my mentor how to pre-empt the barriers to understanding the past that students may face. One barrier we discussed was presentism: the tendency of students to interpret the past in light of their own modern knowledge, values and experiences. In particular, we considered...
    Triumphs Show 193: Year 8 imagine the First World War trenches

  • Move Me On 163: Ahistorical thinking

      Teaching History feature
    Jane Whorwood’s concern to encourage students to think for themselves is leading to some very ahistorical thinking. Jane Whorwood has proved to be a generally confident and positive trainee, largely due to two years’ experience as a cover supervisor before committing to a formal training programme. She has made a...
    Move Me On 163: Ahistorical thinking

  • Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

      Connected and Competing Activisms
    How did a group of women activists with varied ideological backgrounds construct several important campaigns against fascism in the interwar period? How did this Women's World Committee against War and Fascism (Comité Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme) undertake effective humanitarian and propaganda work and forge extensive...
    Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

  • Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages

      Teaching History feature
    The history of medicine, health, and illness between c. 500 AD and 1500 has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent decades. It’s a fascinating field that can tell us a great deal about medieval people’s everyday lives and their day-to-day worries: after all, everyone is ill or...
    Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages

  • The International Journal Volume 5 Number 2

      Journal
    Articles Lieke van WijkThe Learning and Teaching of History in Europe: EUROCLIO's Enquiries Compared   Peter Brett Citizenship and the National Curriculum   Jerome FreemanThe Current State of the 4-19 History Curriculum in England and Possible Future Developments: a QCA Perspective   Jon NicholFrom Russia with Love: a History Curriculum...
    The International Journal Volume 5 Number 2

  • Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking

      Teaching History article
    Did Alexander really ask, ‘Do I appear to you to be a bastard?' Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking Beth Baker and Steven Mastin make the case for teaching ancient history in the post-14 curriculum. Pointing out the damaging messages that could be conveyed by assuming that ancient...
    Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking

  • From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance

      Teaching History article
    In this detailed account of the first stages of a lesson sequence for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds), Kate Hammond sets out the tensions that must be examined and resolved when planning and teaching this most demanding of topics. How can young teenagers be helped to develop a mature response to...
    From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance

  • Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rosalind Stirzaker has introduced some fascinating topics at Key Stage 3. Her pupils, living in Dubai, have the opportunity to study the Islamic Empire, the Mughal Empire and Mespotamia as well as many of the...
    Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker

  • Triumphs Show 130: Righting the Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    It was period 5 on a wet Wednesday afternoon deep into the winter term. Year 9 were even more difficult than usual. Being cooped up inside at lunch, without supervision, had not helped the situation. What was I going to do with this untamed bunch? Put on a trusted video?...
    Triumphs Show 130: Righting the Revolution

  • American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept

      Podcast
    Jonathan Bell: Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at the University of Reading.What historians have come to term ‘liberalism' in an American context has taken on numerous meanings that provide a lens through which to examine broad trends in US history across the twentieth century. From the...
    American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept

  • Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

      Scheme of Work
    2015 was a year of anniversaries. As part of our funded commemoration projects surrounding the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, we commissioned this scheme of work looking at interpretations of the battle and period, particularly aimed at pupils in Key Stage 3. It comes with a complete resource...
    Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work