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  • Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor

      Article
    Ben Walsh argues that many teachers of history completely miss the point of the word processor. Criticising those who use it merely for 'typing up' he reminds us that the purpose of the word processor, as with any other resource, is to teach good history. He analyses the types of...
    Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor

  • Move Me On 93: Not making progress in use of ICT

      The problem page for history mentors
    Millie Marvel, PGCE Student is not making use of ICT to teach history in the classroom Problem: Millie Marvel, student history teacher, is in Term 2 of her PGCE year. She enjoys using ICT and is highly competent in her use of several applications. However, lessons in which she has chosen...
    Move Me On 93: Not making progress in use of ICT

  • Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Gary Howells asks hard questions about typical teaching and assessment of historical causation at Key Stage 3. Popular activities that may be helpful in addressing particular learning areas, or in teaching pupils to use the...
    Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

  • Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

      Article
    Using the experiences of William Bent and his family in the 1860s, this resource was designed to develop different kinds of historical thinking. For example, it highlights what a turning point the Sand Creek massacre proved to be.
    Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

  • Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    Sally Evans demonstrates how constructing a map of Europe can enhance pupils' understandings on the causations of World War Two.
    Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

  • Vive la France! A comparison of French and British history teaching, with practical suggestions from across La Manche

      Teaching History article
    It is possible for teachers to learn a great deal within their own classrooms, departments and schools. However, stepping outside that daily experience, whether by reading a journal, contributing to a web debate or attending a conference, can always provide refreshing ideas. Evelyn Sweerts takes the concept of sharing good...
    Vive la France! A comparison of French and British history teaching, with practical suggestions from across La Manche

  • Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

      Teaching History feature
    Why is it, I wonder, that Rednock students enjoy their history so much and why have so many opted for the subject at ‘AS’ Level? This new course, designed to bridge the gap between GCSE and ‘A’ Level, has allowed a new calibre of student to enrol. The ability range,...
    Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

  • Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Brian, PGCE history student, doesn't see the point of teaching history to pupils who find it very difficult.
    Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

  • I understood before, but not like this: maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips

      Teaching History article
    We are used, in the current idiom, to ‘sharing objectives with pupils’. Too often, however, they are emphatically our objectives rather than theirs and sharing is shorthand for one-way communication. Helen Snelson’s article explores what sharing objectives can mean when objectives are genuinely jointly produced, rather than ‘cascaded’ and reports...
    I understood before, but not like this: maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips

  • Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Josie, PGCE history student, is finding that her use of the department's exercises on sources is not improving pupils' understanding of evidence.
    Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

  • 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

  • Practical classroom approaches to the iconography of Irish history or: how far back do we really have to go?

      Teaching History article
    Ben Walsh presents a structured practical activity for teaching pupils about Northern Ireland through the use of murals. The activity can be carried out in Year 9 as part of a study on the twentieth-century world, or as part of a GCSE course. He stresses the importance of an informed...
    Practical classroom approaches to the iconography of Irish history or: how far back do we really have to go?

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Dave Woodcraft is passionate about engaging students and making them care about the past. He is unrepentant about wanting his lessons to have an emotional impact and a relevant, immediate appeal. To this end, he frequently uses modern parallels in his classroom to make the point that issues in the...
    Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

  • It's a lot harder than politics'...students' experience of history at Advanced Level

      Teaching History article
    Does the experience of studying history in the sixth form prepare students adequately for study at university? There is plenty of attention given to the issue of continuity across the Key Stages but much less attention given to the transition from school into higher education. It is largely assumed that...
    It's a lot harder than politics'...students' experience of history at Advanced Level

  • "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

      Teaching History article
    In contrast with earlier studies which presented a bleak picture of the impact of history teaching, Paul Goalen presents a small-scale study that is optimistic. For pupils in three schools at least, the history teaching of the late 1990s seems to be winning through. Goalen argues that the National Curriculum...
    "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

  • Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

      Teaching History article
    Writing stories in history lessons? But we don’t do things like that in history do we? Strange bedfellows though history and fiction might seem, Dave Martin and Beth Brooke make a strong case for collaboration between the English and history departments in order to introduce students to the challenging task...
    Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

  • How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Mary Woolley decided to make four revision sheets for her lower-band Year 11 set. Each was to help them view their American West study through a different lens. She was rather uncertain, however (and so were the pupils) about her fourth sheet on places. Her reflections on the revision sheet...
    How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

  • Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

      Teaching History article
    In the first of our special, extra ‘Europages’, funded by the Council of Europe (CoE), Mark McLaughlin briefly outlines the purpose and outcomes of a CoE project on ‘learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century’. His short article reminds all history teachers of the need...
    Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

  • 'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Helena Stride shows how the Imperial War Museum responded to criticism that insufficient attention had been paid to the contribution of black and Asian people to Britain’s wars. She focuses on one of two resource-packs produced by the Museum, which highlights the experience of Britain’s colonial peoples,...
    'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

  • 'Really weird and freaky': using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom

      Teaching History article
    Can 25 so-called ‘low ability’ girls access 30 pages of difficult text? Yes, much more easily they can access the tiny, sanitised, made-easy ‘gobbets’ that they are normally exposed to in the name of ‘access’. Mary Woolley makes the point that boring texts are those that tell you only essential...
    'Really weird and freaky': using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom

  • Beyond 'I speak, you listen boy!' Exploring diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening

      Teaching History article
    What is historical rigour in a speaking and listening activity? How do we make sure that a direct focus on improving the quality of pupils’ classroom talk is, at the same time, a focus upon strengthening historical knowledge, skill and understanding? For while it is possible to make a very...
    Beyond 'I speak, you listen boy!' Exploring diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening

  • 'Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?'

      Teaching History article
    How can the Holocaust be represented? In this article, Andrew Wrenn takes as his example the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He helps teachers encourage pupils to get beneath the surface, and look analytically at the Museum itself as an interpretation of the Holocaust. Such an investigation provides pupils and...
    'Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?'

  • Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond

      Teaching History article
    As in his previous, popular and influential Teaching History articles, Ian Luff has once again provided us with a wide range of high-quality, practical activities informed by a rigorous and persuasive rationale. This time, he has turned his attention to the use of role play and active demonstration at GCSE...
    Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond

  • Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people

      Teaching History article
    What preconceptions do your pupils hold about the Second World War and about German people? How far have these been influenced by home background, by personal experience, by film, by sport, by the Key Stage 2 history curriculum? Paul Coman argues that the last of these deserves greater attention, at...
    Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people