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  • Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    What do 14 Year 7 students, an art teacher, a history teacher and the Victoria and Albert Museum have in common? They are all part of the ‘Stronger Together' Museum Champion project run by The Langley Academy and the River & Rowing Museum and supported by Arts Council England, designed to...
    Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?
  • Triumphs Show 133: Little Miss Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    Students can find it hard to understand and remember the differing schools of interpretation that they encounter at A2. The process of studying differing historiographic claims can also seem rather dry and tedious. It is crucial that they grasp differences in interpretation if they are to succeed in their examinations,...
    Triumphs Show 133: Little Miss Cold War
  • Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

      Teaching History feature
    Big theme: dissent and the formation of the concept of ‘rights' You can teach citizenship not only without compromising National Curriculum content, processes and concepts, but in such a way as to improve them. Review your department's ‘whole Key Stage' planning. Secure rigour and high levels of challenge by remembering...
    Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history
  • New, Novice or Nervous? 152: Describing Progression

      Teaching History feature
    'New, Novice or Nervous?' 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...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 152: Describing Progression
  • Why we would miss controlled assessments in history

      Teaching History article
    A place for individual enquiry? Why we would miss controlled assessments in history Most history teachers will, at some point, recognise the tension between teaching an engaging history course while at the same time meeting the requirements of an exam specification. Mark Fowle and Ben Egelnick reflect here on how...
    Why we would miss controlled assessments in history
  • Polychronicon 123: Gladstone and Disraeli

      Teaching History feature
    Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' focuses on the interpretations of Gladstone and Disraeli.
    Polychronicon 123: Gladstone and Disraeli
  • Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750

      Article
    Flesh and blood people bring history to life. Capture the interest of our Year 8 pupils by making sure they engage with human dilemmas and dangers. A focus on individual people as the starting point for enquiries helps pupils to tackle the ‘big' stories (overviews) and difficult concepts.
    Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750
  • Enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy

      Teaching History article
    Wrestling with Stephen and Matilda: planning challenging enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy McDougall found learning about Stephen and Matilda fascinating, was sure that her pupils would also and designed an enquiry to engage them in ‘the anarchy' of 1139-1153 AD. Pupils enjoyed exploring ‘the anarchy' and learning...
    Enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy
  • Improving Year 12's extended writing

      Teaching History article
    From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral: improving Year 12's extended writing through an enhanced sense of the reader Mary Brown recognised that her A-level students were finding extended writing difficult, particularly in terms of guiding the reader through the argument with appropriate ‘signposting'. To help her students manage this, Brown...
    Improving Year 12's extended writing
  • Move Me On 149: how to provide appropriate support for particular students

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Helen Troy is uncertain how to provide appropriate support for certain students without restricting what they can achieve. Helen showed considerable determination in securing her teacher training place. Her own education had been within a highly selective school system and her first application was unsuccessful because of...
    Move Me On 149: how to provide appropriate support for particular students
  • New, Novice or Nervous? 149: Getting pupils to argue about causes

      Teaching History feature
    Every problem you're wrestling with in the history classroom, other history teachers have wrestled with too. This page is for all those new to the published writings of history teachers in Teaching History. It shows how to make a start in understanding how others have explored and discussed common and...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 149: Getting pupils to argue about causes
  • Competition and counterfactuals without confusion

      Teaching History article
    Paula Worth was searching not only for a rigorous question, capable of engendering genuine debate, but also for an engaging and enjoyable activity that would secure GCSE students' substantive knowledge. The answer - or rather the question - lay in counterfactual thinking: a carefully crafted game that she devised, based...
    Competition and counterfactuals without confusion
  • Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress

      Teaching History feature
    How can we interest students in the world of ideas? How can we help them to see how important ideas were in shaping and reflecting the world of the Victorians? Working with the overarching enquiry question, ‘Why did some Victorians believe in progress in the nineteenth century and others did not?’ I devised...
    Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress
  • Developing pupil explanation through web debates

      Teaching History article
    Kathryn Greenfield became dissatisfied with her pupils' written responses, particularly the rather limited explanations that they were giving in support of points that they made. Drawing here on recent work in using Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) to develop pupil historical argument and reasoning, Greenfield explains how she used web debates...
    Developing pupil explanation through web debates
  • Move Me On 147: Making Analogies Meaningful

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Emma Norman finds the analogies that she's using to make historical ideas meaningful end up distracting or confusing the students. Emma has come into history teaching after a number of years at home looking after children. Her previous work was as a fundraiser for an environmental campaign group,...
    Move Me On 147: Making Analogies Meaningful
  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... transnational history

      Teaching History feature
    Until the beginning of the twenty-first century, historians’ aversion to sweeping generalisations meant that they typically conducted their research within the boundaries of the nation state. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of globalisation and the birth of the internet, new political, intellectual, and practical developments began...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... transnational history
  • A knowledge-rich approach to introducing China’s history to Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Freya George was wondering how best to integrate more Asian histories into her school’s curriculum when a conversation among history teachers on social media led her to Jung Chang’s Wild Swans: three daughters of China. George then planned two enquiries, one introducing twentieth-century China, and one focusing entirely on Chang’s work. George styles...
    A knowledge-rich approach to introducing China’s history to Year 9
  • Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Claudia Jones is very uncomfortable with any kind of sustained story-telling. Claudia Jones is a quietly spoken and rather nervous trainee. She struggled from the beginning of the PGCE to establish a strong  presence in the classroom, and although she has become more assertive about insisting on basic...
    Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling
  • Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters

      Teaching History article
    The enquiry sequence on which Alex Benger reports in this article was inspired by two specific concerns: a sense that history education must have more to contribute to young people’s understanding of and ability to confront the climate crisis; and a desire to help pupils to engage more broadly with...
    Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters
  • No more mark schemes: manageable and meaningful assessment for Years 7–9

      Teaching History article
    In seeking to answer the question of how to make valid, reliable, and meaningful judgements about students’ work in history, Elizabeth Carr’s department abandoned criteria-based mark schemes and replaced them with a form of comparative judgement conducted in relation to a series of exemplars. In this article, Carr explains the...
    No more mark schemes: manageable and meaningful assessment for Years 7–9
  • Integrating heritage education and public history at school

      Teaching History article
    As a busy teacher of history and part-time doctoral student exploring history, heritage and identity, Joris thought a lot about heritage, students’ understanding of heritage and how such ideas could best be brought into the history classroom. Meanwhile, he discovered that the buildings next to his school were about to...
    Integrating heritage education and public history at school
  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history

      Teaching History feature
    While academic historians began to make important contributions to our understanding of British LGBTQ+ history in the 1970s (and, indeed, this built on historical scholarship from as early as the 1880s), the field of British queer history became properly established within university history departments and mainstream academic scholarship from the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history
  • Teaching Years 8 and 9 to write analytically about similarity and difference

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on the quality of her pupils’ analyses of past diversity and complexity, Molly-Ann Navey was struck by the contrast with their writing geared to other types of disciplinary problem.  Navey therefore set out to develop entirely new sequences of lessons which would teach pupils to shape arguments about similarity...
    Teaching Years 8 and 9 to write analytically about similarity and difference
  • Lenses, mirrors and bridges: one department’s holistic approach to diversifying and decolonising local history

      Teaching History article
    As was the case for many heads of history, Jack Brown was prompted by the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 to reflect afresh on the content and questions asked within his school’s history curriculum, paying particular attention to local history. In this article he sets out the principles and...
    Lenses, mirrors and bridges: one department’s holistic approach to diversifying and decolonising local history
  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About… climate history

      Teaching History feature
    Although some historians object to ‘presentism’ – studies of the past that are explicitly driven by present-day concerns – climate history as a field would probably not exist otherwise. Expensive technology is required to gather the raw data for research into past climates. Interdisciplinary collaboration is needed to develop robust...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About… climate history