Curriculum Issues
The materials in this section are intended to help teachers think about the relationship between academic and school history – using their knowledge of the work of historians and their knowledge of the needs, interests and current abilities of their students to help in devising appropriate curricula and worthwhile activities. Read more
Extended Reading
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
- What’s The Wisdom On... extended reading?
- ‘This extract is no good, Miss!’
- Reading? What reading?
- 'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’
- Putting Catlin in his place?
Extended Writing
- What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing
- Deepening Year 9’s knowledge for better causation arguments
- ‘One big cake’: substantive knowledge of the mid-Tudor crisis in Year 7 students’ writing
- The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
- Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode
- Training for the marathon: history at Michaela
Historical Argument
- Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
- The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
- Being an historian
- Year 9 use sources to explore contemporary meanings and understandings of appeasement
- Why does anyone do anything? Attempts to improve agentive explanations with Year 12
- Teaching Year 9 to argue like cultural historians
Narrative in history
- Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
- Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum
- Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust
- Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714
- Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode
- Touching, feeling, smelling, and sensing history through objects
Inclusion
- Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design
- Film: Exploring representations and attitudes to disability across history
- Film: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector
- HA Update: History for all – a wider view
- Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history
- Film: Supporting less able students in your GCSE classroom
Independent Learning
- The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Making reading routine
- Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus
- ‘This extract is no good, Miss!’
- From road map to thought map: helping students theorise the nature of change
Digital history
- Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership
- Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
- Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills
- Triumphs Show 160: Prezi and propaganda
- Using databases to explore the real depth in the data
- Using Twitter in the History Classroom