What's the Wisdom on...

Short guide to an aspect of history teaching

'What's the Wisdom on' is a feature in Teaching History. It is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching.

It draws on tried and tested approaches arising from teachers with many years of experimenting, researching, practising, writing and debating their classroom experience. It therefore synthesises key messages from Teaching History articles, blogs and other publications. The guide includes a range of practical planning suggestions suitable for any key stage and signposts the basic reading essentials for new professionals.

Each 'What's the Wisdom on' feature is also accompanied by a filmed webinar on the same themes. 

Topic   

Teaching History edition  

Year

History assessment

185

2021

Extended writing

184

2021

Extended reading

183

2021

Consequence

182

2021

Historical significance

181

2020

Similarity and difference

180

2020

Change and continuity

179

2020

Enquiry questions

178

2020

Interpretations of the past

177

2019

Evidence and sources 

176

2019

Causation

175

2019



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