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
- ‘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?
- Historical scholarship and feedback
- Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level
Extended Writing
- ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge
- From road map to thought map: helping students theorise the nature of change
- 'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’
- Historical scholarship and feedback
- Effective essay introductions
- New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative
Historical Argument
- The dialogic dimensions of knowing and understanding the Norman legacy in Chester
- Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
- New, Novice or Nervous? 174: Building students' historical talk
- Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13
- From flight paths to spiders’ webs: developing a progression model for Key Stage 3
- Dealing with the consequences
Narrative in history
- Using narratives and big pictures to address the challenges of a 2-year KS3 curriculum
- Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
- Using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study
- Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative
- Absence and myopia in A-level coursework
- Cunning Plan 174: creating a narrative of the interwar years
Inclusion
- Thinking beyond boundaries
- How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?
- Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities
- Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England
- Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!
- Social Studies Teachers’ Resistance to Teaching Francophone Perspectives in Alberta
Independent Learning
- Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus
- Making reading routine
- ‘This extract is no good, Miss!’
- From road map to thought map: helping students theorise the nature of change
- Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar
- Developing independent learning with Year 7
Digital history
- 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
- Teaching the iGeneration