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  • Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Ian Gibson and Susan McLelland describe their work using cause boxes. They identity the type of historical learning that they felt was taking place and the range of factors which they judged to be critical...
    Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

  • Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. If science graduates think that history teaching is not about questioning, that there is only ‘one answer' in history or that historical facts are unproblematic, does it matter? Should we care? Doug Newton and Lynn...
    Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

  • Queen Victoria as a Politician

      Article
    Even had Queen Victoria not presided over the achievements of the age which bears her name, her career would still hold a fascination for the historian. She was, for one thing, the solitary woman in a male political world. She was possessed of a personality at once perceptive and simple,...
    Queen Victoria as a Politician

  • New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content

      GCSE Resources
    As you will no doubt be aware, GCSEs are changing. New specifications (subject to accreditation) will require students to learn history from a range of different time periods. Different specifications will specify different content, but whichever specification you end up teaching, you are very likely to be teaching some medieval...
    New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content

  • Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

      Teaching History feature
    GCSE development studies require students to assess change over vast periods of time. How can we cover the content whilst ensuring that our students do not lose sight of the big picture? Look to your choice of big enquiries for the solution. Here is one efficient and motivating approach devised...
    Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

  • Global Learning & Critical Thinking

      Article
    Critical thinking GLP-E aims: Young people will also develop the skills to interpret that knowledge in order to make judgements about global poverty. In this way they will be able to: think critically about global issues. The GLP has a strong focus on developing young people's knowledge and understanding of...
    Global Learning & Critical Thinking

  • Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014

      Changes to the secondary history curriculum
    Although modifications to the content of the National Curriculum for history have not been as dramatic as once feared, the effective revocation of the previous attainment target is radical indeed. When these changes are considered alongside the fact that more than half of maintained secondary schools (all academies and free...
    Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 2- Spring 2012.     Marcelo Fronza and Maria Auxiliadora Moreira dos Santos The Conceptions of Objective Historical Knowledge of Young Students in Brazilian High Schools   Olga Magalhaes Historical Narratives of Young Portuguese Students   Rita de Cassia Goncalves Pacheco...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

  • 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

  • Assessment and planning for progression at Key Stage 3

      HA Guide and Links
    The 2014 National Curriculum does not include an attainment target or any specified level against which you are expected to assess pupils' progress. The new attainment target says simply that: ‘By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes...
    Assessment and planning for progression at Key Stage 3

  • Britain 1900-1918

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Writing the First World War - Podcasts Richard Evans Medlicott lecture: The Origins of the First World War Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War   The Parliament Act of 1911 The Suffragette Movement - Podcast LGBT History 1914-18 Domestic impact of World War I  First World War treaties...
    Britain 1900-1918

  • Power and Democracy - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Power and Democracy The Norman Conquest: why did it matter? HA Podcast Series:  Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 1. Politics, Reform and War England Arise! The General Election of 1945 HA Podcasted History: William I to Henry VII HA Podcast Series: James VI & I to...
    Power and Democracy - GCSE

  • SHP and 'What is history?'

      Article
    In the 1970s a new approach to history teaching was developed through the auspices of the Schools Council History Project (SCHP) later named the Schools History Project (SHP). In order to engage pupils (and reverse the perceived danger of a declining uptake of history amongst pupils) the project authors designed...
    SHP and 'What is history?'

  • Medieval Britain 1066-1509

      HA Resources
    The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and how they can best 'combine overview and depth...
    Medieval Britain 1066-1509

  • Varieties of Reformation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The most significant change to have occurred in our view of the Reformation in recent years is the growing acknowledgement of historians that it was no unitary phenomenon whose triumph was assured and inevitable. What we refer to in short-hand as ‘the' Reformation was a many-sided affair which began with...
    Varieties of Reformation

  • Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem:Joe Priestley is having problems providing sufficient challenge for the higher attainers within his mixed ability groups Joe Priestley has settled into his training placement very well and has impressed other members of the history department with his lively and engaging ideas. In his early teaching he was...
    Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

  • What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

      Briefing Pack
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Some content may be outdated and some links may no longer work. History constitutes a key player in the new English Baccalaureate, being one of the two choices that students may opt for in the Humanities section. The English Baccalaureate is a...
    What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

  • Contribute an article to Teaching History

      Contribute to our journals
    Do you have an idea that you'd like to share with the Teaching History community?  It's through member contributions that the HA maintains such a rich subject community – we'd love to hear from you! Please don’t worry about being tentative, and please don’t worry if you have never written before! We really...
    Contribute an article to Teaching History

  • The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

      IJHLTR
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 9, Number 2 - Autumn/Winter 2010 ISSN 1472-9466   1. Editorial Hilary Cooper and Jon Nichol. 04 2. Articles Eleni Apostolidou 06 Oscillating Between the Recent Past and the Remote Past: The Perceptions of the Past and the Discipline of History...
    The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

  • Young Quills 2017 - Longlist Secondary

      The Young Quills
    Answer: The Historical Association’s The Young Quills selection The Young Quills are awards for the best new historical fiction for children and young people. The emphasis is on new – each year lots of books are published for children, many of them covering historical themes. However, are they any good...
    Young Quills 2017 - Longlist Secondary

  • English Heritage and Historical Association Local Heritage Project

      Article
    One year ago (2011), the south eastern branch of English Heritage and the Historical Association came together to see what we could do better in partnership. The outcome was the Local Heritage Partnership Project. The vision was to work together to provide access to and inspiration to carry out local...
    English Heritage and Historical Association Local Heritage Project

  • Significance

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Historical significance.  This selection of Teaching History articles on 'Significance' are highly recommended reading to anyone who wants to get to grips with this key concept. All Teaching History articles are free to HA Secondary Members...
    Significance

  • The International Journal Volume 9 Number 1

      International Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 9, Number 1 - July 2010 ISSN 1472-9466 1. Editorial - Hilary Cooper and Jon Nichol 2. Articles Current reflections - 2010, on John Fines' Educational Objectives for the Study of History: A Suggested Framework and Peter Rogers' The New History,...
    The International Journal Volume 9 Number 1

  • Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

      Teaching History feature
    ‘The Beatles were history-makers from the start,' proclaimed the liner notes for the band's first LP in March 1963. It was a bold claim to make on behalf of a beat combo with one charttopping single, but the Beatles' subsequent impact on 1960s culture put their historical importance (if not...
    Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

  • Move Me On 146: Knowing enough to be able to start planning

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Jim Boswell is constantly anxious about whether he knows enough to be able to start planning. Jim Boswell is an articulate, enthusiastic student teacher, with previous voluntary work experience teaching English to young asylum-seekers and refugees. Other previous roles in sports coaching and refereeing have clearly paid dividends...
    Move Me On 146: Knowing enough to be able to start planning