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  • Polychronicon 140: Why did the Cold War End?

      Teaching History feature
    The end of the Cold War is a controversial subject. Contemporary analysts did not see it coming. Any explanation of its ending which seeks to build up a network of causation will therefore be forced to make arguments based on events whose significance was not  necessarily seen at the time....
    Polychronicon 140: Why did the Cold War End?

  • Cunning Plan… for teaching the Haitian Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    One of my favourite parts of the curriculum I teach is the second half of Year 8 (for pupils aged 12–13). We look at early European empire, transatlantic slavery and the age of revolutions. Two books that I have read in the past two years have increased my enjoyment of...
    Cunning Plan… for teaching the Haitian Revolution

  • 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

  • Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    The stimulus for this article came from two developmental tasks that Barbara Trapani was set during the course of her initial teacher education programme: planning her first historical enquiry and bringing the work of an historian into the classroom. Trapani chose to tackle the two tasks together, using Susan Whitfield’s...
    Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

  • Distant voices, familiar echoes: exploiting the resources to which we all have access

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As an Advanced Skills Teacher, Denise Thompson has often been at the forefront of experimental developments. Five years ago, she reported on trials of an online discussion forum used to sharpen A level students' historical...
    Distant voices, familiar echoes: exploiting the resources to which we all have access

  • Teaching History 201: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past Interpreting the past is the daily bread-and-butter of history teaching. In each lesson, an history teacher interprets the past to their pupils, structuring and shaping the way in which they present historical material in order to form a coherent lesson. Planning lesson sequences...
    Teaching History 201: Out now

  • Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical

      Teaching History article
    Two years ago the history department at Hampstead School was one of two history departments chosen to model very effective use of IT in history for a BECTA research study. Two years on, what has the department been up to? All of the factors identified in that study -an ICT...
    Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical

  • Teaching History 194: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment The current ecological and climate crisis is, without doubt, human-induced. Even those who previously disputed this claim have switched from outright denial to arguing that the threat is exaggerated.1 Meanwhile, many young people are responding to the crisis with strong emotions, such as...
    Teaching History 194: Out now

  • 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 75

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? - Carol White 7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 - Laurie Taylor 9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View - Roy Hughes 11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach -...
    Teaching History 75

  • HA Update: History for all – a wider view

      Teaching History feature
    In this update, I plan to share ideas and practice from colleagues who lead and teach history in special schools in the northeast of England. Ten years have passed since the publication of History for All and this therefore seems a good moment for reflection. By 2011, in many of England’s schools,...
    HA Update: History for all – a wider view

  • Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

      Teaching History article
    The current specifications for AS/A2 history require students to study change over a period of at least 100 years. Given that the 100 year study represents just one module out of six and also that it may not complement any of the other modules selected and may therefore be wholly...
    Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

  • Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution

      Teaching History article
    ‘Disastrous and terrible.’ For Arnold Toynbee, the historian who gave us the phrase ‘industrial revolution’, these three words sum up the period of dramatic technological change that took place in Britain across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We may not habitually use Toynbee’s description in the classroom, but it is...
    Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution

  • Teaching History 72

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    11 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 2: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Pam Harper 14 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 3: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Tony McAleavy  18 A Way of Looking at History: Local-National-World Links - Sylvia L. Collicott  23 Deja vu - The...
    Teaching History 72

  • Move Me On 163: Ahistorical thinking

      Teaching History feature
    Jane Whorwood’s concern to encourage students to think for themselves is leading to some very ahistorical thinking. Jane Whorwood has proved to be a generally confident and positive trainee, largely due to two years’ experience as a cover supervisor before committing to a formal training programme. She has made a...
    Move Me On 163: Ahistorical thinking

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum

      Teaching History feature
    This Cunning Plan details an enquiry that I developed in order to achieve two curricular goals: to diversify our historical content and to help students to improve their disciplinary thinking and writing about similarity and difference. The enquiry addresses medieval Africa, specifically the East African kingdom of Aksum (approximately 300...
    Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum

  • 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

  • Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Jacob Olivey set out to design enquiries which would enable his pupils to reconstruct, using evidence, the perspectives of people in the past. In this article he shares in detail the planning and outcomes of two enquiries: one for Year 7 and one for Year 8. Olivey offers a example...
    Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3

  • Assessment without Level Descriptions

      Teaching History article
    Two heads of department in contrasting schools explain why they do not use Level Descriptions at all, other than at the very end of Key Stage 3. Influenced by ‘assessment for learning' principles, Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown develop a case for using assessment to help pupils grow in understanding...
    Assessment without Level Descriptions

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... medieval science and medicine?

      Teaching History feature
    The phrase ‘medieval science’ may seem nonsensical. ‘How can... a synonym for “backward”,’ the editors of The Cambridge History of Science Volume 2 ask rhetorically, ‘modify a noun that signifies the best available knowledge from the natural world?’ To answer their question, we must rethink our assumptions, both about the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... medieval science and medicine?

  • Polychronicon 142: 'instructive reversals' - (re)interpreting the 1857 events in Northern India

      Teaching History feature
    The dramatic, chaotic and violent events that took place in Northern India in 1857/8 have been interpreted in many ways, as, for example, the ‘Indian Mutiny', the ‘Sepoy War' and the ‘First Indian War of Independence'. The tales that have been told about these events have been profoundly shaped, however,...
    Polychronicon 142: 'instructive reversals' - (re)interpreting the 1857 events in Northern India