Key Stage 4
Key Stage 4 History is emerging from a radical overhaul, with the new GCSEs to be examined first in 2018. Some schools which teach a three year Key Stage 4 have already begun on this new journey. Some are still waiting to begin. What you teach in your classrooms will be largely dominated by the awarding body whose course you choose to teach. In brief, the major changes to the new GCSE are that: Read more
Planning
- Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode
- Changing thinking about cause
- Using an anthology of substantial sources at GCSE
- Here ends the lesson: shaping lesson conclusions
- New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning
- Polychronicon 170: The Becket Dispute
Progression & Assessment
- Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching
- Shaping the debate
- A guide to Assessment Reform at Key Stage 4
- Cunning Plan 162: Transferring knowledge from Key Stage 3 to 4
- The knowledge illusion
- Transforming Year 11's conceptual understanding of change