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  • Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What’s the hardest part of history? Heads of Year 9 at options time seem depressingly clear - ‘Don’t do history, there’s too much writing.’ David Hellier and Helen Richards show that at The Green School...
    Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding

  • 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

  • It's a lot harder than politics'...students' experience of history at Advanced Level

      Teaching History article
    Does the experience of studying history in the sixth form prepare students adequately for study at university? There is plenty of attention given to the issue of continuity across the Key Stages but much less attention given to the transition from school into higher education. It is largely assumed that...
    It's a lot harder than politics'...students' experience of history at Advanced Level

  • "...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

  • Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

      Teaching History article
    Writing stories in history lessons? But we don’t do things like that in history do we? Strange bedfellows though history and fiction might seem, Dave Martin and Beth Brooke make a strong case for collaboration between the English and history departments in order to introduce students to the challenging task...
    Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

  • How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Mary Woolley decided to make four revision sheets for her lower-band Year 11 set. Each was to help them view their American West study through a different lens. She was rather uncertain, however (and so were the pupils) about her fourth sheet on places. Her reflections on the revision sheet...
    How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

  • Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

      Teaching History article
    In the first of our special, extra ‘Europages’, funded by the Council of Europe (CoE), Mark McLaughlin briefly outlines the purpose and outcomes of a CoE project on ‘learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century’. His short article reminds all history teachers of the need...
    Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

  • 'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Helena Stride shows how the Imperial War Museum responded to criticism that insufficient attention had been paid to the contribution of black and Asian people to Britain’s wars. She focuses on one of two resource-packs produced by the Museum, which highlights the experience of Britain’s colonial peoples,...
    'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

  • 'Really weird and freaky': using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom

      Teaching History article
    Can 25 so-called ‘low ability’ girls access 30 pages of difficult text? Yes, much more easily they can access the tiny, sanitised, made-easy ‘gobbets’ that they are normally exposed to in the name of ‘access’. Mary Woolley makes the point that boring texts are those that tell you only essential...
    'Really weird and freaky': using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom

  • Beyond 'I speak, you listen boy!' Exploring diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening

      Teaching History article
    What is historical rigour in a speaking and listening activity? How do we make sure that a direct focus on improving the quality of pupils’ classroom talk is, at the same time, a focus upon strengthening historical knowledge, skill and understanding? For while it is possible to make a very...
    Beyond 'I speak, you listen boy!' Exploring diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening

  • 'Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?'

      Teaching History article
    How can the Holocaust be represented? In this article, Andrew Wrenn takes as his example the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He helps teachers encourage pupils to get beneath the surface, and look analytically at the Museum itself as an interpretation of the Holocaust. Such an investigation provides pupils and...
    'Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?'

  • Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond

      Teaching History article
    As in his previous, popular and influential Teaching History articles, Ian Luff has once again provided us with a wide range of high-quality, practical activities informed by a rigorous and persuasive rationale. This time, he has turned his attention to the use of role play and active demonstration at GCSE...
    Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond

  • Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people

      Teaching History article
    What preconceptions do your pupils hold about the Second World War and about German people? How far have these been influenced by home background, by personal experience, by film, by sport, by the Key Stage 2 history curriculum? Paul Coman argues that the last of these deserves greater attention, at...
    Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people

  • Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' focuses on teaching Year 12 the French Revolution.
    Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

  • Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' looks at teaching Imperial China at the beginning of Year 7.
    Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

  • Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture

      Teaching History feature
    In this edition of 'Cunning Plan' Diana Laffin illustrates how Tudor Architecture can be taught.
    Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture

  • 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

  • Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Nat Turner is feeling confused and aggrieved about what is expected of him in using ICT in his teaching.
    Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk

  • Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

      Teaching History feature
    Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
    Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

  • Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons

      Teaching History feature
    What makes someone an Icon? A cunning plan to explore the relative significance of individuals involved in abolishing the slave trade.
    Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons

  • Move Me On 122: Catering for different learning styles

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Maria Monte has decided that catering for different learning styles will solve all her problems of differentiation in history. 
    Move Me On 122: Catering for different learning styles

  • Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945

      Teaching History journal feature
    Anna Hamilton and Tony McConnell have created a 'Cunning Plan' to tackle to the question, 'Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after 1945?'.
    Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945

  • 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

  • Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?

      Teaching History feature
    In this Cunning Plan, Jonathon Dallimore and Martin Douglas explore how teaching about the history of the suffrage movement in Australia can be used to raise questions both about the campaign for votes for women in Australia and wider questions about what defines Australian history. They also open up the...
    Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?

  • Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum

      Teaching History feature
    This Cunning Plan details an enquiry that I developed in order to achieve two curricular goals: to diversify our historical content and to help students to improve their disciplinary thinking and writing about similarity and difference. The enquiry addresses medieval Africa, specifically the East African kingdom of Aksum (approximately 300...
    Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum