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  • More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current national curriculum With the first teaching of a revised history curriculum due in September 2008 the debate over content and order is well under way. Robert Guyver, involved in the design of the curriculum development experiment that evolved into the 1991 version of...
    More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3

  • Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Nathan Cole and Denise Thompson have really thought about Key Stage 3. They have been forced to; they now teach it in only two years. The switch to a two-year Key Stage 3 has made them re-evaluate their entire programme of study, and their rationale for teaching history. The result...
    Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3

  • English, history and song in Year 9: mixing enquiries for a cross-curricular approach to teaching the most able

      Teaching History article
    Several articles in previous editions of Teaching History have touched on the themes of crosscurricularity, Assessment for Learning and the most able. Tony McConnell and Mandy Monaghan bring these themes together in describing how the English and history departments in their school have taken advantage of a natural area of...
    English, history and song in Year 9: mixing enquiries for a cross-curricular approach to teaching the most able

  • Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

      Teaching History article
    What does it mean to be good at history? At certain times during their formal education students seem to be required to adjust their understanding of what studying history entails. Alan Booth writes from the viewpoint of a university tutor. He has collated ‘student voice’ on the experience of studying...
    Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

  • It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

      Teaching History article
    Year 7 history teachers frequently bemoan the lack of historical learning in the primary sector. Pupils may be well versed in suffixes and similes, but their study of history can be limited. This group of history teachers decided that things could be different. Not only did they bring enquiry methods...
    It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

  • Teaching History 56

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 8 History Across the Primary Secondary Divide - Pat Lackenby and Mel French  14 Evacuation - Fifty Years On - Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team  18 A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions - Kay Clarke  20 Women's History and Children's perception of gender - Fiona Terry  25 Grasping the...
    Teaching History 56

  • Uncovering the hidden histories: black and Asian people in the two world wars

      Teaching History Article
    The stories we tell in history are often stories about ourselves. This can lead to tremendous distortion. Rupert Gaze was shocked when a young black student told him that there was no point in his studying the Second World War because it had nothing to do with him or his...
    Uncovering the hidden histories: black and Asian people in the two world wars

  • Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Good history teaching should not be the responsibility of a single department working in isolation. The history subject community as a whole should work together to ensure that history teaching is of as high a quality as possible. This does not mean that every department, and every teacher, should do...
    Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

  • ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Alison Kitson and Alan McCully discuss the findings of their research into history teaching in the most divided part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers, they consider what history teaching might contribute to an understanding of the current situation and...
    ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

  • Teaching History 55

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: Empathy and History - Ann Low-Beer Some Reflections on Empathy in History - John Cairns Reflections on the Empathy Debate - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley Pupils and the Professional Historian - Neil De Marco Some Comments on the Future of Integrated or Modular Humanities Courses in Schools -...
    Teaching History 55

  • A need to know: Islamic history and the school curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Nicolas Kinloch questions some of the principal justifications often advanced for teaching Islamic history in schools. In particular, he wants to move us beyond our concern with current events in the Middle East. He suggests that there are dangers in looking at Islamic history if it is...
    A need to know: Islamic history and the school curriculum

  • Mussolini's marriage and a game in the playground: using analogy to help pupils understand the past

      Teaching History article
    Diana Laffin and Maggie Wilson want their pupils to connect with people in the past and to experience some of their emotions. The emotional factor is a difficult one in history, both for pupils and professional historians. When studying Eden’s actions at Suez, for example, what we lack is a...
    Mussolini's marriage and a game in the playground: using analogy to help pupils understand the past

  • Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History is the study of the past; some of the past is more recent than a glance over many schemes of work might lead us to think. Chris Culpin makes the case for ignoring the 20 year rule and tackling head on – and, crucially, historically – the big issues...
    Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

  • Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined...
    Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

  • The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Much has been said and written about different learning styles in recent years. Some people have responded with evangelical enthusiasm, others exercise a more cautious approach, whilst a few disregard it completely. Certainly, there are...
    The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

  • The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Contributors to this journal have long recognised that success in public examinations is at least partly achieved by carefully teaching in Key Stage 3. A critical component of A-Level is that students who wish to...
    The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

  • 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

  • Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What’s the hardest part of history? Heads of Year 9 at options time seem depressingly clear - ‘Don’t do history, there’s too much writing.’ David Hellier and Helen Richards show that at The Green School...
    Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding

  • How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Steve Garnett shares some the techniques that he uses to involve different kinds of learner in his post-16 lessons and explains how he arrived at these approaches after reflecting on problems in his own early...
    How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding

  • Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 04 HA Secondary News 06 Unnatural and essential: the nature of historical thinking – Sam Wineburg (Read article) 13 Nutshell 14 New alchemy or fatal attraction? History and citizenship – Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt (Read article) 20 Polychronicon: Peterloo – Robert Poole (Read article) 22 Interdisciplinary forays...
    Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds

  • Seeing, hearing and doing the renaissance (Part 2)

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the last edition of Teaching History, Maria Osowiecki described in detail the fourth lesson in a five-lesson enquiry entitled: What was remarkable about the Renaissance? She also shared her resources for two lively, interactive...
    Seeing, hearing and doing the renaissance (Part 2)

  • Does differentiation have to mean different?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Richard Harris questions common assumptions about differentiation. In particular, he encourages teachers to avoid accepting too readily the view that pupils of different abilities must be given different resources or activities. Instead he builds a...
    Does differentiation have to mean different?

  • 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

  • Teaching History 127: Sense and Sensitivity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    04 Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter – Andrew Wrenn and Tim Lomas (Read article) 11 Nutshell 13 Teaching controversial issues… where controversial issues really matter – Keith Barton and Alan McCully (Read article) 20 Polychronicon: the Crusades (Read article) 22 Identity-shakers: cultural encounters and the...
    Teaching History 127: Sense and Sensitivity

  • 'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts

      Teaching History article
    This is the second in a series of articles for Teaching History in which Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt share the findings of Project Chata (Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches). In their first article (see Edition 113), they questioned the wisdom of using the National Curriculum attainment target as...
    'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts