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  • Promoting rigorous historical scholarship

      Teaching History article
    The history department at Cottenham Village College has one more member than you might expect. Ruth Brown is a teaching assistant (TA) and one of the longest-standing members of the department, and this article is about how her work has an impact on specific pupils, whole classes and teachers. The key...
    Promoting rigorous historical scholarship

  • Year 9 face up to historical difference

      Teaching History article
    How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference Teaching her Key Stage 3 students in Essex, Catherine McCrory was struck by the stark contrast between their enthusiasm for studying diverse histories of Africa and the Americas and their reluctance to...
    Year 9 face up to historical difference

  • Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

      Teaching History article
    When Will Bailey-Watson (a history ITE tutor) and Charlie Crouch (a history PhD student) worked together to improve a history undergraduate course at their university, they realised that the benefits of collaboration between teachers and historians can flow both ways. In this article they offer an account of how they sought...
    Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

  • Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey and Helen Snelson, who have both worked for many years in initial teacher education, wanted to find ways of supporting recently qualified teachers in continuing to develop their practice. Working in two different parts of the country, they established different kinds of informal, but well-focused history-specific, support groups....
    Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

  • Teaching History 193: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 193: Mediating History David Lowenthal writes that history is both less than and more than the past. It is less because ‘only a tiny fraction of all that has happened can ever be recovered and recounted’.1 Yet it is also more because ‘it is a new and...
    Teaching History 193: Out now

  • Teaching History 192: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 192: Breadth If the length of a curriculum relates to how long it lasts – to its duration in classroom time and to the volume of historical time it covers – then curricular breadth refers us to the number and the variety of the dimensions of human...
    Teaching History 192: Out now

  • Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Kimberley Anthony and her history colleagues were troubled by Year 9's assumption that World War II was the only interesting thing that they were going to do in Year 9. Nineteenth-century industrialisation, even their own...
    Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

  • Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

      Teaching History article
    In the UK, thoughtful history teachers have long lamented the fact that the majority of pupils emerge from their compulsory history schooling at 14 with a limited or inadequate understanding of those key historical concepts that are necessary to make sense of the world in adult life. Whilst more able...
    Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

  • Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Many history teachers will have taken their GCSE pupils to School History Scene's Hitler on Trial for a rigorous and inspirational session, using drama, in preparation for the GCSE examination. Josh Brooman has now broadened the work of School History Scene by writing a new play, Doomed Youth, aimed at...
    Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War

  • The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Mike Gorman uses the language of the National Curriculum Order to describe and analyse his practice. Yet he throws down a challenge to those who use it uncritically rather than interpreting it to make their...
    The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

  • Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more... The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article) The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article) Teaching...
    Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

  • Creating controversy in the classroom: making progress with historical significance

      Teaching History article
    No longer is historical significance the ‘forgotten key element.’ Indeed, it is now being remembered at last – by politicians, telly-dons and the media in any case. Matthew Bradshaw suggests that the popular emphasis on significant events is wrong. Instead, we should be enabling our pupils to make their own...
    Creating controversy in the classroom: making progress with historical significance

  • Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house

      Teaching History article
    Heather De Silva, Jenny Smith and Jason Tranter outline a new study unit, planned jointly by their history and geography departments and designed specifically to meet the new requirements for local history required by England’s recently revised National Curriculum for history. They aimed to help pupils to capture a part...
    Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house

  • How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review

      Teaching History article
    Thomas Tallis history department have an interesting approach to planning. Whereas, all too often, this most time-consuming and intellectually demanding of teachers’ tasks is rendered invisible, and is supposed to happen by magic in the middle of the night, this department chose to make the planning process genuinely collaborative, pivotal...
    How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review

  • Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level

      Teaching History article
    Richard Harris challenges those who play down the essay in their teaching of the new AS Level. He argues that essay-writing embodies historical thinking and that it is therefore an essential tool for developing students’ understanding of history as an opinion-forming, judgement making process. Students need to practise developed, evidential...
    Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

      Teaching History feature
    Why, in a history lesson (or out of a history lesson; let’s say, for a homework perhaps) might we want pupils to read more than a paragraph, to stay with the text, to actually read? We don’t mean plucking facts from information boxes, nor ploughing through four comprehension questions. We...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

  • Teaching History 76

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    6 I Thought It Was For Picking Bones Out Of Soup ... Using Artefacts In The Primary School - Liz Smith and Cathie Holden 10 Understanding Ethnocentrism: History Teachers Talking - Janet Maw 17 Critical History? - Rob Isaac 19 Language Use and Problem Solving in Primary History - Patricia Hoodless...
    Teaching History 76

  • Teaching History 87

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    6 Reading the Bickersteth Diaries - John Bickersteth 8 History at Home - Rob David 14 Nuffield Primary Project (Part I) - John Fines 21 Our History or Your History? (Part 2) - Gillian Wilson 24 Key Stage 2 Multi Cultural Issues (Part I) - Marika Sherwood 27 Primary School...
    Teaching History 87

  • Learning from a pandemic

      Teaching History article
    In order to contextualise and make sense of the Covid-19 pandemic, Verity Morgan worked with her school’s long-standing partner school in Ghana to devise an innovative project combining history and science, past and present. In this article, Morgan sets out the rationale for the project, her detailed adaptation of a British Council...
    Learning from a pandemic

  • Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

      Teaching History article
    The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) is a Cyprus-based organization that works to foster dialogue among history teachers and other educators across the divide in Cyprus. In one of their UN-funded projects, ADHR members worked with UK colleagues to shape a lesson sequence and resources on the Ottoman period...
    Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

  • Teaching History 57

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 7 'Not the White Tights again!': Role-play in History Teaching at Degree Level - Ian Dawson  14 The Impact of GCSE History on Further Education - Ian Aveyard  17 Some Sixth-Former's Views of History - Janice C. Vaudry  25 A Small Oral History Project in Four Rural Cumbrian Primary Schools - Dilys M....
    Teaching History 57

  • Teaching History 80

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    5 Re-Thinking Collingwood: a reply to Keith Jenkins's Re-thinking History - Mamie T.E. Hughes 9 Secondary History Teaching and the OFSTED Inspections: an analysis and discussion of history comments - Paul Bowen 14 The Re-appearance of a Cheshire Cat - teaching the history of Britain at key stage 3 -...
    Teaching History 80

  • Teaching History 178: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 178 Constructing Accounts Teachers of history have long recognised the tensions inherent in our role. We must deal with the existence of notions of a core narrative (or narratives) of areas of the past, communicating what those notions are while enabling our students to engage critically with...
    Teaching History 178: Out now

  • Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

      Teaching History article
    Essay writing is at the very heart of school history, yet despite the wide range of developments in this area over the past decade, pupils still struggle. Alex Scott and his department decided to investigate a variety of methods to see what methods worked in enabling pupils to construct essays...
    Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

  • Teaching History 59

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum - David Kerr Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History - Dave Welbourne Keeping the Past under Review - Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell and Derek...
    Teaching History 59