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
- Training for the marathon: history at Michaela
- ‘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
Historical Argument
- 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
- How introducing cultural and intellectual history improves critical analysis in the classroom
- Family stories and global (hi)stories
- Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose
Narrative in history
- Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum
- Transatlantic slavery – shaping the question, lengthening the narrative, broadening the meaning
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Enquiry questions (Part 2)
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Enquiry questions (Part 1)
- Unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8
- What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia
Inclusion
- Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history
- No more ‘doing’ diversity
- Family stories and global (hi)stories
- Film: Inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK
- Thinking beyond boundaries
- How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?
Independent Learning
- 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
- Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar
Digital history
- Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
- Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills
- Using databases to explore the real depth in the data
- Triumphs Show 160: Prezi and propaganda
- Using Twitter in the History Classroom
- Teaching the iGeneration