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Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 Letters
05 HA Secondary News
06 Mary Brown - From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral: improving Year 12's extended writing through an enhanced sense of the reader (Read article)
14 John Stanier ‘Much to learn you still have!' An attempt to make Year 9 Masters of Learning...
Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles
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Ranking and classifying: teaching political concepts to post-16 students
Teaching History article
Sometimes it is precisely in the interest of building better historical knowledge that facts and detail need temporarily to be abandoned. Gary Howells aims to secure discernible foundation understandings in his students by getting them to engage quickly with those aspects of political concepts that they can grasp. He is...
Ranking and classifying: teaching political concepts to post-16 students
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Teaching History 148: Chattering Classes
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA update
08 Richard Kerridge and Sacha Cinnamond - Talking with the ‘enemy': firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation and collaboration (Read article)
16 Triumphs Show 1: Collaborating to commemorate Olaudah Equiano - Dan Lyndon and Donald Cumming (Read article)
18 Keeley Richards -...
Teaching History 148: Chattering Classes
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Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Beth Baker and Steven Mastin - Did Alexander really ask, ‘Do I appear to you to be a bastard?' Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Getting students to use classical texts - Beth Baker...
Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture
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Teaching History 146: Teacher Knowledge
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Letters
05 HA update
09 Elizabeth Carr: How Victorian were the Victorians? Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society (Read article)
18 Robin Whitburn, Michelle Hussain and Abdullahi Mohamud ‘Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in...
Teaching History 146: Teacher Knowledge
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Teaching History 200: Telling Histories
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This 200th edition of Teaching History is open-access to all until the New Year. For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders join the HA today.
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Teaching History 200: Telling Histories
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Teaching History 199: Ordinary People
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Please note: the print edition of Teaching History 199 will start arriving with members from around 7 July onwards.
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 When a name is not enough: telling rich stories about women’s lives in the American West at GCSE –...
Teaching History 199: Ordinary People
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'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History
Teaching History article
In Steve Mastin’s classroom, pupils do not just read, look at and observe their historical sources. They listen to them. Steve’s classroom is already full of music. He uses it variously - to focus, settle or simply to expand the cultural curiosity of his pupils. Pupils expect to walk in...
'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History
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Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level
Teaching History article
In this article, Seán Lang examines the power of film to shape AS/A students’ perception and even understanding of the past. He argues that teachers of Years 12 and 13 underestimate at their peril the impact film can have on how students shape their perception of history. Although, as he...
Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level
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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 144: History for All
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Paula Worth - Which women were executed for witchcraft? And which pupils cared? Low-attaining Year 8 use fiction to tackle three demons: extended reading, diversity and causation (Read article)
16 Yosanne Vella - The gradual transformation of historical situations: understanding ‘change and continuity'...
Teaching History 144: History for All
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Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Gary Howells - Why was Pitt not a mince pie? Enjoying argument without end: creating confident historical readers at A Level (Read article)
15 Jane Card - Seeing the point: using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage (Read article)
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Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims
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Teaching History 191: Material Worlds
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
06 Illumination or illustration? Using eighteenth-century material culture to develop evidential thinking in Year 8 – Eleanor Dimond (Read article)
18 Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’? Evaluating social change and continuity in post-war Britain...
Teaching History 191: Material Worlds
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Teaching History 125: Significance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘Maybe they haven’t decided yet what is right:’ English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance – Lis Cercadillo (Read article)
10 What they think they know: the impact of pupils’ preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance – Robin Conway (Read article)
16 Polychronicon: The Norman Conquest - Tony McConnell
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Teaching History 125: Significance
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Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Why don’t the Chinese play cricket? Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire – Steven Mastin and Pieter Wallace (Read article)
15 More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3 – Robert Guyver (Read article)
24 Polychronicon: Whose conspiracy? The plot of...
Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
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Teaching History 139: Analysing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7 analyse the changing relationship of Henry II and Becket - Tim Jenner (Read article)
11 Encountering diversity in the history of ideas: engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about ‘progress' - Jonathan White (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Teaching about...
Teaching History 139: Analysing History
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Teaching History 119: Language
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their causal reasoning – James Woodcock (Read article)
24 Are you ready for your close-up? – Heather Scott with Judith Kidd (Read article)
15 The Tudor monarchy in crisis: using a historian’s account to stretch the most able...
Teaching History 119: Language
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Teaching History 181: Handling Sources
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial: Handling Sources (read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Being an historian: can online source banks help us to replicate the research experience of historians in the post-16 classroom? – Robin Conway and Amy Scott (read article)
17 'What is history': Africa and the excitement of sources with Year 7 – Adbul Mohamud and Robin...
Teaching History 181: Handling Sources
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Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does differentiation have to mean different? – Richard Harris (Read article)
13 Engaging with each other: how interactions between teachers inform professional practice – Simon Letman (Read article)
17 Seeing, hearing and doing the Rennaissance (Part 2) – Maria Osowiecki (Read article)
26 Polychronicon: Henry VII: Diligent bureaucrat or paranoid blunderer? (Read...
Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
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Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history
Teaching History article
Three years ago, Séan Lang argued that narrative, which had gone rather out of fashion, needed to be brought back into our teaching. Alf Wilkinson goes further. It is not just narrative which is needed: it is story. The move away from story is not a problem confined uniquely to...
Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history
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Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update: thinking beyond boundaries – Jason Todd (Read article for free)
10 Visions of America: using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study – Alex Ford (Read article)
22 What’s The Wisdom On... evidence and sources (Read article)...
Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas
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Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13
Teaching History article
Thinking skills’ is a term that has been substantially over-used. It often seems to be rather a lazy shorthand for justifying the teaching of history by suddenly bolting on some ‘thinking’ - as if history is not all about thought in the first place. Arthur Chapman suggests using techniques from...
Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13
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Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Assessment without Level Descriptions - Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown (Read article)
16 Dr Black Box or How I learned to stop worrying and love assessment - Mark Cottingham (Read article)
26 Rigorous, meaningful and robust: practical ways forward for assessment - Simon Harrison (Read article)
31 Opportunities, challenges...
Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?
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Teaching History 110: Communicating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
08 Narrative: an underrated skill - Seán Lang (Read article)
18 Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion - Maria Bakalis (Read article)
27 Developing conceptual understanding through talk and mapping - Jannet van Drie and Carla van Boxteland (Read article)
32 ‘You be Britain and I’ll be Germany...’ Inter-school e-mailing in...
Teaching History 110: Communicating History
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Teaching History 171: Knowledge
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual articles are also free to access).
For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD...
Teaching History 171: Knowledge
