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  • Teaching History 151: Continuity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Rachel Foster - The more things change, the more they stay the same: developing students' thinking about change and continuity (Read article) 18 Polychronicon: The Revolution of 1688 - Ted Vallance (Read article) 20 Cunning Plan: The 'Glorious' revolution of 1688...
    Teaching History 151: Continuity

  • Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

      Teaching History article
    The work of Gary Howells will be familiar to many readers of Teaching History—indeed, his last article is heavily cited elsewhere in this edition. He presents here the case in favour of using sources at AS level (16-17 years old). Clearly, historians need to have some form of acquaintance with...
    Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

  • Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Jamie Byrom’s article ‘Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning’ (TH 99) offered a practical solution both to weak knowledge acquisition in Year 7 and to effective, worthwhile assessment. This enquiry follows the same model. The assumption is that pupils would be carrying out this enquiry at...
    Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

  • Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham continues a theme explored by many other teacher-authors in recent years, how to ensure that progression does not just stop in Year 9, leaving pupils stagnant in key areas of historical learning before getting picked up again in Year 12. He produces a more thorough rationale and commentary...
    Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

  • Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

      Teaching History article
    This article is based on Ruth Tudor’s book. The book is the collaborative result of a series of seminars and discussions which involved educators throughout Europe. Written with 14-19 year olds in mind, the approach explores how it is possible to investigate, to exploit to provide new insights and to...
    Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

  • 'Which was more important Sir, ordinary people getting electricity or the rise of Hitler?' Using Ethel and Ernest with Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Mike Murray offers further new perspectives on the relationship between overview and depth in pupils’ historical learning. In an account of his teaching with Raymond Briggs’ Ethel and Ernest to a ‘below-average ability’ class in Year 9, he constructs a rationale for using this moving strip cartoon to motivate, intrigue...
    'Which was more important Sir, ordinary people getting electricity or the rise of Hitler?' Using Ethel and Ernest with Year 9

  • Year 7 pupils collaboratively design an historical game about a medieval peasant

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jacques Haenen and Hanneke Tuithof describe an activity that they developed for pupils as part of an initial teacher education course. Teams of Year 7 pupils were given a structure and guidelines within which they...
    Year 7 pupils collaboratively design an historical game about a medieval peasant

  • Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

      Teaching History article
    In this article David Lambert argues powerfully for teachers of the humanities to place citizenship at the centre of their work. He seeks to demonstrate that the division between subject-boundaries needs to be broken through if students are not to be denied what they are entitled to: an understanding of...
    Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

  • Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

      Teaching History article
    Pictures abound in history classrooms and teachers use them in many different ways. They add - often literally - some colour to the past, helping us to imagine what different worlds were like. Pictures can be used quite legitimately in this way to fire imagination and stimulate interest. But we...
    Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

  • Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Simon Butler advances a strong case for ‘comments only’ marking. Good assessment, he argues, is about encouraging students to reflect on their current performance and take responsibility for their own progress. Assigning Levels to pupils’ work is often justified in terms of the generation of targets which...
    Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!

  • The Tenth Grade tells Bismarck what to do: using structured role-play to eliminate hindsight in assessing historical motivation

      Teaching History article
    Neomi Shiloah and Edna Shoham show how history teachers in Israel have begun to move away from traditional talk-and-chalk based teaching. They describe a blend of role-play and ICT that not only grabs pupils’ attention and caters for different styles of learning but also helps pupils to appreciate the difficulties...
    The Tenth Grade tells Bismarck what to do: using structured role-play to eliminate hindsight in assessing historical motivation

  • Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?

      Teaching History article
    How many history departments regularly discuss the quality of their enquiries and teaching processes that relate to historical significance? It would not be unusual, in 2002, for a history department to spend time in a department meeting reflecting upon pupils’ learning about causation or to explore the connection between pupils’...
    Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?

  • Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12

      Teaching History article
    Are you getting fed up of ICT experts and others telling you to watch out for ‘bias’ in websites? Have you sat open-mouthed through a training session or staff meeting where the need to teach pupils to be critical of what they find on the web is sagely discussed, as...
    Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12

  • Teaching History 202: Organising Principles

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Please note: The print version of this edition will start arriving with members from around Monday 13 April.  03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 How foundational concepts, supporting concepts and concrete examples can help untangle the past at Key Stage 3 – Gareth Lennon (Read article)...
    Teaching History 202: Organising Principles

  • Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

  • What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations

      Teaching History article
    Teaching History frequently celebrates and analyses the practice of those history departments that appear to buck trends. In keeping with the Historical Association’s Campaign for History and its popular ‘Choosing History at 14’ Pack, a number of articles and Triumphs Shows in recent editions of Teaching History have celebrated the...
    What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations

  • Teaching History 189: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 189: Collaboration Teaching requires many kinds of knowledge, which has many different sources. One of those sources of knowledge is other professionals. But history teachers are not simply passive receivers of settled bodies of knowledge produced by others. As the pages of Teaching History attest, there is...
    Teaching History 189: Out now

  • Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning how to build a substantiated argument in Year 7 - Dale Banham (Read article) Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability - Gary Howells (Read article) The ‘structured enquiry’ is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for...
    Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument

  • Teaching History 105: Talking History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition explores the diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening. Using initial Stimulus Mateial (ISM) to promote enquiry, thinking and literacy, Speaking and listening in Year 7 history, Developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites and much more... Beyond ‘I speak, you listen, boy!’ Exploring...
    Teaching History 105: Talking History

  • Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
    Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

  • Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote to bring environmental history into the curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    It was during a rainy Tuesday breaktime that I realised why I was so flippant about including environmental history in my curriculum. ‘The climate, you see,’  I said to my colleague Tamsin as I double-boiled the staffroom kettle, ‘can’t challenge you when you don’t include it.’ Kate Hawkey’s book History and the Climate...
    Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote to bring environmental history into the curriculum

  • History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know?

      HA Update
    What’s been happening in primary history lately? Invited to write an update on this, I decided to identify some themes that might be helpful to secondary teachers.  As a senior lecturer in primary education with responsibility for history and as a member of the HA Primary Committee, I was able...
    History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know?

  • Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
    Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

  • Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Making a passionate case for teaching Black British history in the secondary school curriculum, Hannah shares here the personal journey she has travelled in planning for Black British history in her curriculum. She cites her inspirations and offers striking examples to illustrate her rationale and approach to teaching this history....
    Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

  • Move Me On 176: worried about how to deal with his own dyslexia in the classroom

      The problem page for history mentors
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 176: worried about how to deal with his own dyslexia in the classroom