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  • Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

      Teaching History feature
    It’s early July 2004, and the history department of Harrogate Grammar School are chatting in the staff room enjoying a bit of spare time now that exam classes have disappeared. The subject of what the department will do next year when it comes to trips, speakers and special days comes...
    Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Gary Howells asks hard questions about typical teaching and assessment of historical causation at Key Stage 3.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

  • Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History teachers are increasingly good at designing exercises which develop skill in evidence analysis. The ubiquitous ‘source' is invariably analysed for utility and reliability. But how do pupils integrate such understandings with extended written work?...
    Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

  • Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses...
    Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

  • Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?

      Teaching History article
    How many history departments regularly discuss the quality of their enquiries and teaching processes that relate to historical significance? It would not be unusual, in 2002, for a history department to spend time in a department meeting reflecting upon pupils’ learning about causation or to explore the connection between pupils’...
    Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?

  • '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

  • ‘It’s kind of like the geography part of history, isn’t it, Miss?’

      Teaching History article
    Verity Morgan took an unusual approach to the challenge of teaching the Holocaust, coming to it through the lens of environmental history. She shares here the practical means and resources she used to engage pupils with this current trend in historiography, and its associated concepts. Reflecting on her pupils’ responses,...
    ‘It’s kind of like the geography part of history, isn’t it, Miss?’