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  • Using timelines in assessment

      Teaching History article
    Bridging a twenty-year gap in their practice, Elizabeth Carr and Christine Counsell bring out the similarities in their use of timelines in their planning, teaching and assessment. What they also have in common is the fact that their experimentation with timelines as a way of strengthening cumulative knowledge emerged in...
    Using timelines in assessment

  • Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    What do 14 Year 7 students, an art teacher, a history teacher and the Victoria and Albert Museum have in common? They are all part of the ‘Stronger Together' Museum Champion project run by The Langley Academy and the River & Rowing Museum and supported by Arts Council England, designed to...
    Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?

  • Employment, employability and history

      Teaching History article
    Employment, employability and history: helping students to see the connection Five years ago, in Teaching History 132, Harris and Haydn drew attention to the fact that while the vast majority of Key Stage 3 students claimed to enjoy history and even to regard it as a useful subject, relatively few...
    Employment, employability and history

  • 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 152: Pulling it all together

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Catherine McCrory - How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference (Read article) 20 Cunning Plan: placing visual sources at the heart of historical learning - Shaun Collins (Read article)...
    Teaching History 152: Pulling it all together

  • 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

  • Year 7 explore the story of a London street

      Teaching History article
    One street, twenty children and the experience of a changing town: Year 7 explore the story of a London street Michael Wood and others have recently drawn attention to the ways in which big stories can be told through local histories. Hughes and De Silva report a teaching unit through...
    Year 7 explore the story of a London street

  • Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time

      Teaching History article
    Where's the other ‘c'? Year 9 examine continuity in the treatment of mental health through time Helen Murray, Rachel Burney and Andrew Stacey-Chapman show how they strengthened three goals of their practice - secure knowledge, narrative shapes and conceptual analysis - by securing strong connection between them. The curricular focus...
    Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 156: Analysing interpretations

      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 others...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 156: Analysing interpretations

  • 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

  • 'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations

      Teaching History article
    When Michael Fordham was introduced to Dr Seuss's Butter Battle Book he immediately recognised its potential value in the classroom as a popular interpretation of the Cold War. Wanting his Year 9 pupils to explain how and why the past has been interpreted in different ways he shows the potential pitfalls...
    'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations

  • 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

  • Year 9 - Connecting past, present and future

      Teaching History article
    Possible futures: using frameworks of knowledge to help Year 9 connect past, present and future How can we help pupils integrate history into coherent ‘Big Pictures' or mental frameworks? Building on traditions of classroom research and theorising reported in earlier editions of Teaching History, Dan Nuttall reports how his department set...
    Year 9 - Connecting past, present and future

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 150.2: Year 13 game for reaching substantiated judgements

      Teaching History feature
    Year 13 play a competitive game to help them arrive at strong and substantiated judgements. Year 13 were in the library again, sinking under tomes of weighty works on the German Reformation. James was feverishly rifling through a book on the ‘Reformation World' for something (anything!) to do with Luther's...
    Triumphs Show 150.2: Year 13 game for reaching substantiated judgements

  • Making sense of the eighteenth century

      Teaching History article
    Making sense of the eighteenth century Pressures on curriculum time force us all to make difficult choices about curriculum content, but the eighteenth century seems to have suffered particular neglect. Inspired by the tercentenary of the accession of the first Georgian king and the interest in the Acts of Union prompted...
    Making sense of the eighteenth century

  • Teaching History 154: A Sense of History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Dan Smith - Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period (Read article) 18 Katharine Burn - Making sense of the eighteenth century (Read article) 28 Cunning Plan: Layers of history (Read article) 30 Paula...
    Teaching History 154: A Sense of History

  • Community engagement in local history

      Teaching History article
    This article, by Lynda Abbott and Richard Grayson, offers a fascinating example of collaboration between school and university, focused on the development of a community archive. The project - run as an extra-curricular activity - was originally inspired by a concern to preserve the personal stories of those whose lives...
    Community engagement in local history

  • Historical reasoning in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Historical reasoning in the classroom: What does it look like and how can we enhance it? The history education community has long recognised that historical thinking depends on the interplay between substantive knowledge about the past and the procedural, or second-order, concepts that historians use to construct, shape and give...
    Historical reasoning in the classroom

  • 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

  • Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom It has become a truism that Britain is a multi-cultural society yet, as Mohamud and Whitburn argue, there is still a great deal of thinking to be done by history teachers in accounting...
    Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom

  • Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

      Teaching History feature
    Teaching a class of newly arrived immigrant teenagers from various backgrounds and ethnicities poses many interesting challenges: varied levels of schooling, varied levels of mastery in a new language, no common frame of reference, varied ways of understanding and making sense of the world and very varied ways of making...
    Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

  • 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 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