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  • Teaching History 157: Assessment

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated). For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary...
    Teaching History 157: Assessment

  • Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Fred North treats ‘Assessment for Learning' as though it is a bolt-on extra unconnected to his learning objectives Fred is an enthusiastic trainee who has generally made a good impression on students and colleagues over the course of his first term. He has been determined to establish a...
    Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

  • Assessing the Battle of Waterloo in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Defying the Iron Duke: assessing the Battle of Waterloo in the classroom The approaching bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo has stimulated debate about how it should be commemorated. This article reports a collaboration between the Waterloo200 Committee and Tom Wheeley, history teacher, to create a lesson sequence analysing the...
    Assessing the Battle of Waterloo in the classroom

  • Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

      Teaching History article
    A host of histories: helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house Described by the author Monica Ali as a building that ‘sparks the imagination and sparks conversations', 19 Princelet Street, now a Museum of Diversity and Immigration, captivated the imagination of teacher David Waters. He...
    Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

  • Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Year 9 think they know a lot about the First World War. After all, they read Michael Morpurgo's novel Private Peaceful in their English lessons all the way back in Year 7, they've seen Blackadder so many times they can recite it, and in the centenary year of the war's...
    Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War

  • Getting medieval (and global) at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Taking new historical research into the classroom: getting medieval (and global) at Key Stage 3 Although history teachers frequently work with academic historical writing, direct face-to-face encounters with academic historians are rare in secondary history classrooms. This article reports a collaboration between an academic historian and a history teacher that...
    Getting medieval (and global) at Key Stage 3

  • Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War

      Teaching History feature
    With the publication in 2014 of the Cambridge History of the  First World War, we enter a new transnational phase in the historical understanding of the conflict. The reasons why this change has come about are evident. The first is that there are more transnational historians writing the history of...
    Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War

  • Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative

      Teaching History article
    ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home': exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative Paula Worth draws on three professional traditions in history education in order to build a lesson sequence on the Crusades for her Year 7s. First,...
    Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative

  • Teaching History 156: Chronology

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Paula Worth - ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home’: exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative (Read article) 20 Polychronicon: Transnational history of WWI - Jay Winter (Read article)...
    Teaching History 156: Chronology

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 155: Similarity & Difference

      Teaching History feature
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 155: Similarity & Difference

  • Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Helena Swannick tends to treat differences between historical interpretations simply as matters of opinion. Helena Swannick is a career changer who has decided to come into teaching after many years' working in human resources and some time at home caring for two young children. Her degree was a...
    Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion

  • Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources

      Teaching History article
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources Local history, historical fiction, and one of the most significant events of the twentieth century come together in this article as Jon Grant and Dan Townsend suggest a way to enable students to produce better...
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources

  • Triumphs Show 155: beyond trivial judgements of 'bias'

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Towards victory in that battle... 10A were nearly a term into their GCSE history course, working on an 1890-1918 British history ‘depth study'. They had already completed work on the Liberal welfare reforms and on the women's suffrage movement, and they had been practising a range of source evaluation approaches....
    Triumphs Show 155: beyond trivial judgements of 'bias'

  • Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

      Teaching History article
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front to help pupils take a more critical approach to what they encounter The first year of the government's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme is now under way, allowing increasing numbers of students from across Britain...
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

  • On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War

      Teaching History article
    It is very common for people in politics and the media to make assumptions about what happens in history classrooms. Too often these preconceptions are based on little more than anecdote, examples from the Internet or memories of what someone experienced at school themselves. In this article, Catriona Pennell reports...
    On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War

  • Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War

      Teaching History feature
    As I write this article I have before me my grandfather's Victory Medal from the First World War. It has inscribed on the reverse side, ‘The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919'. The absolute certainty of such a justification for Britain's entry into the war seems somewhat hollow as we approach...
    Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War

  • Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War ‘Blackadder for real' is how the British journalist and broadcaster, Ian Hislop, characterised The Wipers Time, the newspaper published on the front line by members of the 12th Battalion Sherwood, and recently brought...
    Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War

  • Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1

      Teaching History article
    A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War Rachel Foster shows how her own study of cultural history led to a new dimension in her planning. She wanted to show her students not only that historians are interested in many different...
    Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1

  • Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Rachel Foster - A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War (Read article) 20 Mary Brown and Carolyn Massey - Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build...
    Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1

  • Teaching History 17

      Journal
    About the journal, 2 The Editors, 2 Islam in history, 3 Resources - Islam in history, 5 African history in the classroom, 7 History in Central Africa, 10 Review article - recently published books on African history, 13 The historian's method - a course for the 'A' level student, 15...
    Teaching History 17

  • Teaching History 18

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The contributors, 2 Geffrye Museum: People's Museum, 3 Report: Staffordshire Courses, July 1976, 5A Renaissance in history 'A' level, 6 Exploring a Community's Past, 11 Comment, 14 Making the best use of textbooks, 16 Detective exercises are not quite enough, 22 Review article - imagination and the historian,...
    Teaching History 18

  • Teaching History 19

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, 3 Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, 8 A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, 11 New Approaches to the Study and Teaching...
    Teaching History 19

  • Teaching History 20

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3 What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5 Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8 16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10 Comment, 13 Reports: Language and History Teaching, 15 History...
    Teaching History 20

  • Teaching History 21

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3 Classified Advertisements, 8 An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9 Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15 Teaching the Varieties of...
    Teaching History 21

  • Teaching History 23

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Teaching History: A Content Analysis of Numbers 1 to 20 - Keith Hodgkinson and J. B. Thomas, 3 History in Sixth Form Colleges in Hampshire - Joan Blyth, 7 `Booth at Hitchin': Assessing Thinking in History - Bernard Barker and Alan Southgate, 10 The Britannicus Letters...
    Teaching History 23