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Why we must change history GCSE
Teaching History article
A head of steam for change in GCSE history has been building for some time now amongst history teachers, heads of history, advisers, teacher-trainers, researchers, consultants and all who regularly engage in debate about history teaching and learning. All those who read widely, share their practice, experience many Key Stage...
Why we must change history GCSE
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Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Speed cameras, dead ends, drivers and diversions: Year 9 use a ‘road map’ to problematise change and continuity – Rachel Foster (Read article)
09 The Holy Grail? GCSE History that actually enhances historical understanding! – Katie Hall (Read article)
17 ‘Create something interesting...
Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently
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Polychronicon 131: At your leisure
Teaching History feature
Leisure time - like time itself - is fluid, and keeps changing its social meanings. From a ‘serious' high political perspective there is no history of leisure and leisure is trivial. Such perspectives have long lost their grip on the historical imagination, of course, and we have had histories of...
Polychronicon 131: At your leisure
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From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
Teaching History article
In this detailed account of the first stages of a lesson sequence for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds), Kate Hammond sets out the tensions that must be examined and resolved when planning and teaching this most demanding of topics. How can young teenagers be helped to develop a mature response to...
From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
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Holistic assessment through speaking and listening
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Giles Fullard and Kate Dacey wanted to enrich their department's planning for progression across Key Stage 3 with a strong sequence of activities fostering argument. They wanted an opportunity for students to draw together their...
Holistic assessment through speaking and listening
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What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations
Teaching History article
Teaching History frequently celebrates and analyses the practice of those history departments that appear to buck trends. In keeping with the Historical Association’s Campaign for History and its popular ‘Choosing History at 14’ Pack, a number of articles and Triumphs Shows in recent editions of Teaching History have celebrated the...
What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations
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How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review
Teaching History article
Thomas Tallis history department have an interesting approach to planning. Whereas, all too often, this most time-consuming and intellectually demanding of teachers’ tasks is rendered invisible, and is supposed to happen by magic in the middle of the night, this department chose to make the planning process genuinely collaborative, pivotal...
How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review
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The how of history: using old and new textbooks in the classroom to develop disciplinary knowledge
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
What are textbooks for and how do we think of them? As inevitably partial views of the past that reflect their purpose and moment of construction and their authors' location in physical and ideological time...
The how of history: using old and new textbooks in the classroom to develop disciplinary knowledge
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Thinking across time: planning and teaching the story of power and democracy at Key Stage 3
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Ian Dawson's seminal work on developing chronological understanding - in Teaching History 117, on the website thinkinghistory.co.uk and elsewhere - will be familiar to readers. In this article Dawson considers the question, very much on...
Thinking across time: planning and teaching the story of power and democracy at Key Stage 3
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Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Pupils are eternally curious about their teachers. Do they really have lives outside the classroom? Could Miss Jones have once been a child? Does she have parents and grandparents and a past of her own?...
Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time
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Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Matt Stanford is not exactly fed up of marking essays, but he could do with a change. His pupils, he realises, could too. History assessments have often been based on words - either the written...
Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7
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Was the workhouse really so bad? An encounter with a cantekerous tramp
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Have you stuggled to find an invigorating, exciting local enquiry to motivate your Year 9 class ? How do you engage students in lively debate? This was the challenge for one Norfolk school who wanted...
Was the workhouse really so bad? An encounter with a cantekerous tramp
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Move Me On 130: How to generate class discussion
Teaching History feature
This Issue's Problem: Dot Bradford would love to generate much more productive small group talk and worthwhile class discussion but can't work out how to manage it.
Dot came to the PGCE straight from a history degree and was originally inspired by approaches quite different from her own school experience....
Move Me On 130: How to generate class discussion
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Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Rosalind Stirzaker has introduced some fascinating topics at Key Stage 3. Her pupils, living in Dubai, have the opportunity to study the Islamic Empire, the Mughal Empire and Mespotamia as well as many of the...
Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker
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Teaching History 104: Teaching the Holocaust
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah, Teaching pupils to reflect on significance, Teaching the Holocaust: the experience of Yad Vashem, Working as a team to teach the Holocaust: a langauge centred approach, Moral dilemmas, Challenging sterotypes and avoiding the superficial, Armenia and...
Teaching History 104: Teaching the Holocaust
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Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Expertise in its development phase: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians – Deborah Eyre (Read article)
09 Duffy’s devices: teaching Year 13 to read and write – Rachel Ward (Read article)
17 Mussolini’s missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE – Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock (Read article)...
Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
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Teaching History 111: Reading History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘Really weird and freaky’: using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom - Mary Woolley (Read article)
13 Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich - Alison Kitson (Read article)
20...
Teaching History 111: Reading History
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Teaching History 97: Visual History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to ‘layers of inference’ for Key Stage 3 - Claire Riley (Read article)
How long before we need the US Cavalry? The Pittsburgh Conference on ‘Teaching, Knowing and Learning’. - Peter Lee and Ros Ashby (Read article)
Practical...
Teaching History 97: Visual History
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Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This issue deals with defining and examining the question of what constitutes progress in history. Using audience centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to 3, Steering your Ofsted inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success, Using Key Stage 3 to improve performances at GCSE, Learning to...
Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
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Teaching History 99: Curriculum Planning
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Choosing and planning your enquiry questions in Key Stage 3, The return of King John, Using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change, Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning, Using ICT, Making source evaluation meaningful to Year 7 and much more...
Into the Key...
Teaching History 99: Curriculum Planning
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Teaching History 95: Learning to Think
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Who wants to fight? Who wants to flee? Teaching history from a ‘thinking skills’ perspective - Jon Nichol (Read article)
Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing - Heidi le Cocq (Read article)
Exceptional performance at GCSE: What makes a starred A? - Angela Leonard (Read article)
Analysing...
Teaching History 95: Learning to Think
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Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning how to build a substantiated argument in Year 7 - Dale Banham (Read article)
Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability - Gary Howells (Read article)
The ‘structured enquiry’ is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for...
Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument
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Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more...
The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article)
The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article)
Teaching...
Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
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Teaching History 101: History and ICT
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
History and Information Communication Technology, Using ICT in the history classroom, Extending pupils historical vision with limited resources, Using the wordprocessor to connect with knowledge and opinion through revelatory writing, Using the internet to teach about interpretation, Databases, spreadsheets and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3 and much more...
A...
Teaching History 101: History and ICT
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Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary school teachers to teach history, Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house, Getting pupils to track their own thinking and much more...
Why Gerry now likes evidential work - Phil Smith (Read article)
Teaching pupils how...
Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
