A Level
This section of the website, which deals with planning and teaching history for 16-18 year-old students, is organised in four sections: Read more
Planning
- Why does anyone do anything? Attempts to improve agentive explanations with Year 12
- Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database
- Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus
- New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning
- Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13
- Polychronicon 170: The Becket Dispute
Progression & Assessment
- Building Key Stage 5 students’ analysis of interpretations
- 'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’
- Nurturing aspirations for Oxbridge
- Historical scholarship and feedback
- Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?
- Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect
Independent Study
- Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus
- ‘This extract is no good, Miss!’
- Reading? What reading?
- Getting away from the A-level trudge
- The Harkness Method: achieving higher-order thinking with sixth-form
- Why we would miss controlled assessments in history