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
- Modelling the discipline
- Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose
- The dialogic dimensions of knowing and understanding the Norman legacy in Chester
- New, Novice or Nervous? 174: Building students' historical talk
- Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
- Dealing with the consequences
Narrative in history
- Modelling the discipline
- Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
- Using narratives and big pictures to address the challenges of a 2-year KS3 curriculum
- Using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study
- Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative
- What kinds of feedback help students produce better historical narratives of the interwar years?
Inclusion
- 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?
- Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!
- Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities
- Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England
Independent Learning
- 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
- 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