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  • Migration - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Podcasts Podcast Series: England's Immigrants 1330-1550 Podcast Series: Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 3 Diversity - A Changing Population Podcast Series: Diversity in Early Modern Britain Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 5 Religion The Huguenots in Britain & Ireland  Native North Americans...
    Migration - GCSE

  • Medieval Britain 1066-1509

      HA Resources
    The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and how they can best 'combine overview and depth...
    Medieval Britain 1066-1509

  • Making learning drive assessment: Joan of Arc - saint, witch or warrior?

      Teaching History article
    Andrew Wrenn describes his work with Barry Williams and the teachers of the history department at Ailwyn School (11-14 comprehensive), Ramsey in Cambridgeshire. Devoting equal attention to the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of history assessment, he shows how this group of teachers developed a fresh approach to assessment out of...
    Making learning drive assessment: Joan of Arc - saint, witch or warrior?

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2013

      HA Survey
    For the last four years the HA sends to all schools and colleges teaching students in the 11-18 age range a survey.  The survey was sent out during the second half of the spring term 2013. Responses were received from 557 history teachers working in different contexts including middle schools...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2013

  • Empathy without illusions

      Teaching History article
    Empathy may have disappeared from official documents but the history teacher who does not still regularly think about it, plan for it and teach it would be hard to find. What is history if not, in part, an attempt to understand how people thought and felt in the past? This...
    Empathy without illusions

  • Progression without Levels

      Briefing Pack
    "As part of our reforms to the national curriculum , the current system of ‘levels' used to report children's attainment and progress will be removed.  It will not be replaced." (DfE 2013) When National Curriculum levels were removed in 2014, it was all too easy to fall into the trap of...
    Progression without Levels

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2012

      HA Survey
    A little over a year ago Michael Gove announced the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). It would transform education and rid schools and young people of ‘soft subjects'. However the real impact so far has been less than impressive. Those schools that already taught history well to GCSE continued...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2012

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2011

      HA Survey
    Findings from the Historical Association survey of secondary school history teachers in England 2011Authors: Dr Katharine Burn, Institute of Education and Dr Richard Harris, Southampton University(Summary and Full Survey Report attached below)This survey is carried out each year to monitor and evaluate history teaching and access to history in our...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2011

  • Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13

      Teaching History article
    Historical enquiry is blooming at Key Stage 3. Thanks to a rich array of source materials available on the web and in textbooks, superb history-specific training courses and genuinely innovative practice in schools, pupils can increasingly be found wrestling with demanding and often lengthy sources. They do this in order...
    Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13

  • Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may now be outdated. Robert Guyver describes a model for teaching Boudicca’s rebellion to pupils aged 7 to 13. Drawing on the tradition of critical source evaluation, he nonetheless shuns aspects of that tradition in favour of...
    Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

  • 'You be Britain and I'll be Germany...' Inter-school e-mailing in Year 9

      Teaching History article
    E-mailing is fast becoming our preferred means of communication and for good reason. It is immediate: we can fire off a few lines and receive a reply within seconds. It is also flexible: unlike a telephone conversation, we do not have to reply there and then; we can go away...
    'You be Britain and I'll be Germany...' Inter-school e-mailing in Year 9

  • Harold Son of Godwin

      Classic Pamphlet
    To lecture on Harold Godwinson, earl of Wessex, King Harold II of England, in the year 1966 at Hastings is a presumption. We appear to know much about him, and yet in fact there are many gaps in knowledge. Much information, so plausible at first sight, proves unreliable on closer...
    Harold Son of Godwin

  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

  • Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham continues a theme explored by many other teacher-authors in recent years, how to ensure that progression does not just stop in Year 9, leaving pupils stagnant in key areas of historical learning before getting picked up again in Year 12. He produces a more thorough rationale and commentary...
    Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

  • Teaching History 196: Out now

      Article
    Read Teaching History 196: Demanding history  History can be a very demanding subject, in a number of senses. The past can make demands on us – it can demand attention and demand to be addressed. There can, as it were, be historical as well as financial ‘final demands’, reminders of...
    Teaching History 196: Out now

  • So, what exactly does an AST do?

      Teaching History article
    Professional development lies at the heart of any thriving, forward-thinking profession. In teaching, however, despite the government’s recent drive to ‘modernise’ the profession, it can still be a bit hit and miss. What are the opportunities for ambitious and successful teachers of history to widen their horizons and engage in...
    So, what exactly does an AST do?

  • What is APP?

      Article
    Assessing Pupils' Progress in History APP is a tool to view pupil progress periodically by making use of collections of day to day learning in order to ‘make periodic judgements on pupils' progress using a wide range of evidence taken from a variety of classroom contexts.'[i]  QCDA is currently working...
    What is APP?

  • Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

      Podcasts
    Podcast of the round table discussion available here!The History Matters Annual Conference in May saw the best turnout we've had for some time with a healthy and representative mix of HA members. Our thanks to all those who contributed their time and energy in delivering workshops and lectures. Our afternoon...
    Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

  • A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history

      Teaching History article
    The need to understand ways of defining progression in history becomes ever more pressing in the face of a target-setting, assessment-driven regime which requires us to measure progress at every turn. We must defend our professional expertise in terms of measurable outcomes. Did we add value? Have our end of...
    A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history

  • Corporate secondary membership: a view from SLT

      By Simon Harrison, Headteacher
    From history teacher to Headteacher, in over 25 years of teaching I have filled most school roles; history teacher, in the ‘middle’ as a subject leader, an Advanced Skills Teacher, senior leader and eventually Headteacher. I have learned a lot about leadership in Secondary Schools along the way, and becoming...
    Corporate secondary membership: a view from SLT

  • Find out more about Corporate Secondary Membership

      Supporting high quality history
    Read Simon's 4 reasons for taking out Corporate membership  Watch the film above for an overview of corporate membership benefits. Corporate membership supports quality history provision across your school. It's the ideal option if you'd like multiple staff in your department to benefit from available resources and CPD support, while enjoying enhanced...
    Find out more about Corporate Secondary Membership

  • Terms and Conditions

      Development Programmes
    Please read the terms and conditions carefully before you register for a place on the programme. Please also refer to the CPD Events terms and conditions The Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)/History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP), Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP) is open to all secondary history educators in a variety of...
    Terms and Conditions

  • CARGO Classroom: digital resources for diverse histories

      Visionary leaders of African and African Diaspora descent
    To address the urgent need for digital learning resources, and to address the imbalance of perspectives in the History curriculum, CARGO Classroom is now providing multimedia learning tools for Key Stage 3 History via a freely accessible, interactive website: cargomovement.org/classroom “CARGO is about doing. We talk a lot. We talk about...
    CARGO Classroom: digital resources for diverse histories

  • Supporting resources

      Information
    A wealth of resources exist on the rest of the HA website and on the HA Secondary Committee’s blog onebighistorydepartment (OBHD) to help teachers and to support better history teaching. In addition, many books and articles have been published that are easily available to school history teachers. On this page you...
    Supporting resources

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2020 – Winners Announced

      HA competitions news
    This has been one of our best years for entries ever!  With children stuck at home needing a little extra something to do we decided to extend the competition to accommodate home learning, as well as a new age category for pupils in years 10-13. We received well over a...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2020 – Winners Announced