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  • Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

      Teaching History feature
    With the summer break stretching forth its welcome hand and the final lesson with my lowband Year 7 class looming, I wanted to ensure that the enthusiasm and dedication that this class had shown throughout the year was kept alive over the holiday period. We had been studying the Norman...
    Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

  • Teaching History 62

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Always Historicise: Unintended Opportunities in National Curriculum History Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley 8 'From Little Acorns Grow...': A Liaison with Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools in the Framwellgate Moor Area of Durham City D. R. Featonby 15 Standing the World on its Head: A...
    Teaching History 62

  • Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy

      Teaching History feature
    The onset of citizenship brings with it the need to cover political literacy. The topic can be seen as dry and complex by Year 9 pupils. But ‘democracy is not boring’ (Lang in Teaching History 96). We need to educate our pupils to understand the complexity and features of a...
    Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy

  • Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from 'keen to learn' to 'keen to read'

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Conventionally, students learn to read before they come to secondary school. As a result, for the majority of our students, reading can be taken for granted. Yet sometimes, as history  teachers, we can find that...
    Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from 'keen to learn' to 'keen to read'

  • Year 7 use musical language to think about King John

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As an enthusiastic musician, Alison Meikle is always looking for ways to use music in the history classroom. While Teaching History has seen plenty of articles on using musical sources as evidence (e.g. Mastin in Teaching...
    Year 7 use musical language to think about King John

  • Cultivating curiosity about complexity

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A great deal has been written recently about the importance of encouraging and enabling all students to read beyond their comfort zones, beyond the textbook and certainly beyond the obvious requirements of an examination specification....
    Cultivating curiosity about complexity

  • Teaching History 60

      Journal
    EDITORIAL 2 NEWS 3 ARTICLES: The Nature of History and the National Curriculum Michael Honeybone 9 Information Processing in Primary History Topic Work Philip Powell 11 Blkkling 1698 Alan Childs and Mike Pond 14 The Women in Modern Britain Project Sebastian Bees 17 The Time Machine: A Cross Curricular Approach...
    Teaching History 60

  • Move Me On 192: analytical focus with diverse histories

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 192: analytical focus with diverse histories

  • Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

      Teaching History article
    However imaginative and enquiring classroom history may be, the history itself is usually constructed by a historian, a textbook author or a teacher. It is rare that pupils gain the opportunity to construct original histories of their own. Oral history can offer this opportunity. Yet as a methodology, oral history...
    Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

  • 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

  • Move Me On 100: Deciding on lesson objectives

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Hugh Horsea, PGCE student, is having difficulty deciding on his lesson objectives  Problem:  Hugh is a few weeks into his first placement. He is enthusiastic and hard working and was successful in the first teaching tasks that he undertook. However, now that he has moved beyond directed...
    Move Me On 100: Deciding on lesson objectives

  • Teaching History 55

      Journal
    Editorial News 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...
    Teaching History 55

  • Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What should we do with our brightest and best? Neal Watkin and Johannes Ahrenfelt suggest an enquiry for a very high ability Year 8 group which is both challenging and genuinely historical. The enquiry itself...
    Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

  • 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

  • Engaging with each other: how interactions between teachers inform professional practice

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What kinds of interaction take place in a history department? What might be their value? Between 1999 and 2003, Simon Letman, then history teacher and Director of Studies at The Royal Hospital School in Ipswich,...
    Engaging with each other: how interactions between teachers inform professional practice

  • Learning about an 800-year-old fight can't be all that bad, can it? Its like what Simon and Kane did yesterday': modern-day parallels in history

      Teaching History article
    Deborah Robbins charts a story of her own learning during the PGCE year. She explains how she identified a point of interest in her own practice - the use of modern-day examples. Turning this into a focus for testing her own hypotheses, she theorised from her own lessons to produce...
    Learning about an 800-year-old fight can't be all that bad, can it? Its like what Simon and Kane did yesterday': modern-day parallels in history

  • Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

      Teaching History article
    The work of Gary Howells will be familiar to many readers of Teaching History—indeed, his last article is heavily cited elsewhere in this edition. He presents here the case in favour of using sources at AS level (16-17 years old). Clearly, historians need to have some form of acquaintance with...
    Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

  • Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

      Teaching History feature
    It nearly began like this: ‘On Christmas Eve 1968, two episcopalians and a Roman Catholic were in orbit around the Moon.' I was writing a book called Earthrise, about the first views of Earth from space. Most other books about the Apollo programme of the 1960s and 1970s took an...
    Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

  • Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

      Teaching History article
    This is the fourth in a series of Teaching History articles about teaching history in N orthern Ireland co-authored by Alan McCully. The first two articles (in editions 106 and 114) outlined teaching strategies to help pupils in N orthern Ireland understand and relate to complex and often controversial issues...
    Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

  • What's your claim: Developing pupils' historical argument skills using asynchronous text based computer conferencing

      Teaching History article
    The potential that e-conferencing and message boarding have to engage pupils in historical debate and to enhance their ability and inclination to argue is increasingly well understood, as practice reported in these pages recently and the success and expansion of the Historical Association’s Centenary Debates initiative both demonstrate. In this...
    What's your claim: Developing pupils' historical argument skills using asynchronous text based computer conferencing

  • Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: Exploiting local history for rigorous evidential enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rigorous historical enquiry is integral to effective history teaching. The 2008 National Curriculum has recognised its importance by giving it a broader definition as a key process to include not only the use of historical...
    Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: Exploiting local history for rigorous evidential enquiry

  • Move Me On 126: Setting worthwhile homework

      Teaching History feature
    Val Messalina is a lively and engaging young student teacher who has come straight to the PGCE course after completing her history degree. She has made a positive start to teaching but is quite nervous and tends to look for very clear guidance and support. She is now half way...
    Move Me On 126: Setting worthwhile homework

  • A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

      Teaching History article
    Are top sets always our top priority? Of course, we know that every child matters (should that now have capital letters?) but those of us who teach in an ability-setted context also know that a bottom set left unable to access the curriculum is likely to pose bigger problems than...
    A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

  • Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock have collaborated before: Woodcock extended Chapman’s familiar casual metaphor of the final straw breaking a poor abused camel’s back. Here, they collaborate more explicitly to suggest a means of teaching students to produce adequately nuanced historical explanation. Their two central ideas are to produce a...
    Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

  • Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

      Teaching History article
    In this article Nicolas Kinloch examines aspects of an indigenous empire: that of Aztec Mexico. He attempts to persuade a group of mixed-ability Year 8 students to examine - and question - some of the assumptions they bring to the study of this empire. Their attitudes reflect quite widespread beliefs...
    Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire