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  • Making cross-curricular links in history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alf Wilkinson has been working as ‘National Subject Lead' for History, co-ordinating a programme of support for schools, funded by the DCSF and delivered in partnership with the Historical Association and the CfBT. Here he...
    Making cross-curricular links in history

  • Active Historical Thinking

      Teaching History article
    ‘Thinking Skills' have been much discussed in England since, at least, the revision of the National Curriculum in 2000 and have recently morphed, with the 2008 revisions to the curriculum, into ‘Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills'. Often, however, such ‘skills' are discussed in abstract and cross-curricular ways, outside the context...
    Active Historical Thinking

  • Background information: citizenship and history

      HITT Resource
    Citizenship was introduced as a National Curriculum subject at key stages 3 and 4 in 2002. Prior to that many schools had taught aspects of citizenship as a cross-curricular theme, often in the context of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE). Much of the impetus for introducing citizenship as a...
    Background information: citizenship and history

  • SHP and 'What is history?'

      Article
    In the 1970s a new approach to history teaching was developed through the auspices of the Schools Council History Project (SCHP) later named the Schools History Project (SHP). In order to engage pupils (and reverse the perceived danger of a declining uptake of history amongst pupils) the project authors designed...
    SHP and 'What is history?'

  • King John

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the opinion of Stubbs King John was totally, not even competently, bad... Stubbs was the predominant, but no the sole voice of his generation. J.R. Green was already claiming that John was ‘the ablest and most ruthless of the Angevins... In the rapidity and breadth of this political combination...
    King John

  • Edwardian England

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Edwardian era is still less than a lifetime away. Yet the memoirs of surviving Edwardians, written any time between the nineteen-twenties and the nineteen sixties, have often made it sound like a remote epoch. The years between the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and the outbreak of the...
    Edwardian England

  • Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Concerns about our ability to equip young people with a frame of reference that they can actually use to orient themselves in time are widespread. The challenges were extensively debated within the last issue of...
    Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands

  • The War of American Independence

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the two-hundredth year of American Independence, it is proper to ask: why did it occur? It need not have happened; it was the act of men, not immutable forces. But once the tensions became acute, the three thousand miles of ocean were a difficult chasm to bridge. The War...
    The War of American Independence

  • Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A trip to the battlefields of the First World War throws into stark relief the challenges presented by work on interpretations related to historical sites. Andrew Wrenn first drew attention to the difficulties of promoting...
    Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

  • The Wellcome Collection Study Visits

      Visits
    Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience. It is the extraordinary legacy of an extraordinary man: Henry Wellcome. Drawn from his collection of over one million objects from across the world and through many centuries, this unique space is designed to promote new and creative...
    The Wellcome Collection Study Visits

  • HA Survey of English Secondary Schools

      Survey
    History Faces Extinction in English Schools Pupils are receiving fewer and fewer hours of history teaching across secondary schools in England according to research by the Historical Association. The specially commissioned report discovered that: Many children receive little or no history education after only two years of secondary school 48%...
    HA Survey of English Secondary Schools

  • Move Me On 137: Regards PGCE assignments as unhelpful distractions

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Ellen Wilkinson regards her PGCE assignments as an unhelpful distraction from the real business of learning to teach. Ellen has just had her first PGCE assignment returned to her by her tutor and is furious about the comments she has received and the indicative Masters level mark it...
    Move Me On 137: Regards PGCE assignments as unhelpful distractions

  • Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

      Teaching History feature
    It nearly began like this: ‘On Christmas Eve 1968, two episcopalians and a Roman Catholic were in orbit around the Moon.' I was writing a book called Earthrise, about the first views of Earth from space. Most other books about the Apollo programme of the 1960s and 1970s took an...
    Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

  • Is any explanation better than none?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What do we know about progression in historical understanding? In Teaching History 113, Lee and Shemilt discussed what progression models can and cannot do to help us think about measuring and developing pupils' understanding and...
    Is any explanation better than none?

  • Information and Evidence In a Nutshell

      Article
    Nutshell, what's the National Curriculum Attainment Target on about when it contrasts "information" and "evidence"? Aren't they the same thing? They aren't really things. The contrast is between ways of thinking about knowledge rather than between things. Pardon me? One way of talking about knowledge involves ‘looking things up': we...
    Information and Evidence In a Nutshell

  • Making History

      New Website
    Making History Making History, developed by the Institute of Historical Research, is dedicated to the history of the study and practice of history in Britain over the last hundred years and more, following the emergence of the professional discipline in the late 19th century. Contents This website contains cross-referenced entries...
    Making History

  • Triumphs Show 137: Assessing through reflection

      Teaching History feature
    Assessing through reflection: How one history department has found a way to satisfy the Senior Leadership Team, parents and pupils through tightly focused self-assessment Teachers are caught between a rock and hard place when it comes to assessment. Senior leaders want to see evidence of regular ‘levelling' while (most) pupils...
    Triumphs Show 137: Assessing through reflection

  • Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills

      Teaching History article
    For those lucky history departments in and around Newcastle this article will not be news. Peter Fisher alludes to the quasi-religious atmosphere that is often discernible amongst history teachers who have been working with the Thinking Skills groups linked to University of Newcastle Department of Education. He is not exaggerating...
    Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills

  • Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Claire Riley explains how she developed and improved the ‘layers of inference' diagram-already a popular device since Hilary Cooper's work-as a way of getting pupils fascinated by challenging texts and pictures. Working with the whole ability range in Year 9 she analyses her successes and failures, offering many practical suggestions...
    Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

  • Theme Based Curriculum

      Briefing Pack
    The Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS) framework provides some ideas about what could be assessed when delivering a theme based curriculum. This Briefing Pack will assess teaching history as part of a 'Theme Based Curriculum'.
    Theme Based Curriculum

  • Maths and History - Cross Curricular Case Study

      Case Study
    Maths and Museums: Norwich Castle Museum Working with Key Stage 3 MathsFaye Kalloniatis (Museum Education Manager, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service)The project, ‘Storming the Castle, challenged the idea that museums are not places where schools can extend their students' maths skills. On the contrary, the project demonstrated that museums can...
    Maths and History - Cross Curricular Case Study

  • Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing

      Teaching History article
    Heidi Le Cocq sets out the classic problem of the history teacher: how does she cover the content and ensure that pupils reflect and analyse at the same time? She relates this to a another problem: how do you prepare pupils well for coursework (ensuring, for example, that they adopt...
    Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing

  • A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many of us would love to have the problems encountered by Oliver Knight at his previous school. His students were simply doing too well - leaving him wondering how to stretch them to the limit...
    A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE

  • The Hopi is different from the Pawnee: using a datafile to explore pattern and diversity

      Article
    Dave Martin identifies the factors which led to new knowledge and understanding in a mixed ability Year 7 class. Not only did these pupils acquire greater knowledge of the native peoples of North America, they also learned transferable techniques for identifying and analysing pattern and diversity. Clear learning objectives led...
    The Hopi is different from the Pawnee: using a datafile to explore pattern and diversity

  • The Lords of Renaissance Italy

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy: the signori, 1250-1500 Among the many city states into which Italy was divided in the late medieval and early modern period, the republics of Florence and Venice are comparatively well known. Republicanism was not, however, the most common form of government. This pamphlet deals with states...
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy