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  • Online CPD Unit: Creativity in the History Classroom

      E-CPD
    Oh no - not more extended writing! Firing pupil motivation through creative tasking. This E-CPD unit considers the issues departments needs to consider in planning for both challenging and engaging history. The example of teaching below comes from the Historical Association Key Stage 2-3 History transition project website (2005).  The...
    Online CPD Unit: Creativity in the History Classroom

  • Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea that subjects should abandon their ‘silos' and work together is bandied about currently a great deal - ‘subjects' and ‘silos' alliterate after all and so, of course, does the word ‘slogan'. What might...
    Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape

  • Transatlantic slavery – shaping the question, lengthening the narrative, broadening the meaning

      Teaching History article
    Nathanael Davies explains his radical rethink of how to teach transatlantic slavery. He explains how he came to question his earlier approach of focusing on the causation of ‘abolition’ and ‘emancipation’ and, instead, allowed scholarship, sources and his own students’ meaning-making to guide him to a different, and much more...
    Transatlantic slavery – shaping the question, lengthening the narrative, broadening the meaning

  • Recorded webinar series: Teaching a people's history at GCSE: significant for who?

      Funded webinar series for secondary teachers from the HA and the Inclusive Histories project
    Have you ever felt that teaching significance at Key Stage 4 is hard with a limited cast of characters? Do students ask questions that you don’t have the resources to answer? Are you stuck for sources that push the standard narratives of key topics? These four workshops will fix that:...
    Recorded webinar series: Teaching a people's history at GCSE: significant for who?

  • Schools History Project ICT Resources Spreadsheet

      Article
    The HA has compiled 3 spreadsheets that take you through the main History GCSE specifications World History, Schools History Project and the Pilot GCSE which has a compulsory examined element on Medieval England. Each spreadsheet takes you through each specification, topic by topic and is filled with links to all...
    Schools History Project ICT Resources Spreadsheet

  • Modern World History ICT Resources Spreadsheet

      Article
    The HA has compiled 3 spreadsheets that take you through the main History GCSE specifications World History, Schools History Project and the Pilot GCSE which has a compulsory examined element on Medieval England. Each spreadsheet takes you through each specification, topic by topic and is filled with links to all...
    Modern World History ICT Resources Spreadsheet

  • Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course

      Online self-guided short course for lifelong learners
    This self-guided short course provides an introduction to European witchcraft history from the fifteenth century to the present. Using a range of primary sources, the course explores important themes and questions relating to witchcraft history, examining how witchcraft has been imagined and understood at different times and in different places, and why...
    Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course

  • Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia

      Teacher Fellowship programme 2024
    This Teacher Fellowship programme, in partnership with the Department of Economic History at LSE, explored the economic history of colonialism and empire in South and South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The programme was supported by the LSE Knowledge Exchange and Impact fund....
    Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia

  • Terms and Conditions

      Development Programmes
    Please read the terms and conditions carefully before you register for a place on the programme. Please also refer to the CPD Events terms and conditions The Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)/History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP), Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP) is open to all secondary history educators in a variety of...
    Terms and Conditions

  • Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?

      Helen Snelson and Richard Kerridge; resources from HA conference session, Bristol, May 2022
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK.  Richard Kerridge and Helen Snelson have worked with the historian Professor Becky Taylor to produce a range of teaching resources for teaching the history of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller...
    Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?

  • Move Me On 124: Teaching local history

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Lucy Hutchinson is finding it difficult to teach local history well. Now her new mentor has asked her to plan a local history dimension into the 1750-1900 scheme of work.
    Move Me On 124: Teaching local history

  • Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes the only way to go beyond the exam is to take another, more difficult, test. For the top—the very top—A2 students, there is such a test available. The Advanced Extension Award [AEA] is a history paper which encourages students finishing their school careers to think about history in a...
    Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

  • Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

      Teaching History article
    Alex Alcoe was concerned that mastery of certain keywords and question formulae at GCSE perhaps obscured fundamental gaps in his students’ understanding of the nature of causation. These gaps were revealed when he invited Year 12 students to make explicit, by annotating a diagram, their understanding of the relationship between...
    Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

  • When did humans take over the world?

      Teaching History article
    How can we bring climate change into our classrooms without making it ‘small’? Peter Langdon tackled this question by drawing on a ‘big history’ approach to design an enquiry that allowed his students to think about the relationship between humans and climate throughout the whole history of our species. Langdon’s...
    When did humans take over the world?

  • Here ends the lesson: shaping lesson conclusions

      Teaching History journal article
    Reflecting on her efforts to improve her trainee’s lesson conclusions, Paula Worth decided to brush up her own. A journey of self-evaluation led her to revisit the Cambridge Conclusions Project. Through its lens, she judged her own lesson conclusions wanting. Worth examines the way in which the final episode of...
    Here ends the lesson: shaping lesson conclusions

  • Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Making a passionate case for teaching Black British history in the secondary school curriculum, Hannah shares here the personal journey she has travelled in planning for Black British history in her curriculum. She cites her inspirations and offers striking examples to illustrate her rationale and approach to teaching this history....
    Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

  • ‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts

      Teaching History article
    As history teachers we are used to encouraging pupils to think; enabling them to express thoughts with clarity both verbally and in written form. Yet, if history as a school subject becomes purely cognitive, then something is missing. History deals with human behaviour and therefore the affective and the emotional...
    ‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts

  • Terms and Conditions

      A masterclass for senior leaders
    Please read the terms and conditions carefully before you register for a place on the programme. Please also refer to the CPD Events terms and conditions It is prohibited to share or copy the contents and videos of this course with anyone. You will be given access to the programme content on receipt of payment and...
    Terms and Conditions

  • Two Babies That Could Have Changed World History

      Historian article
    'At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley; a magnificent tomb with seals intact; re-covered same for your arrival. Congratulations.’ This telegram was sent from Luxor on the 6th November 1922 by Howard Carter to his coarchaeologist Lord Carnarvon in Britain. It started the Tut·ankh·Amen story which led to a...
    Two Babies That Could Have Changed World History

  • Potential and pitfalls in teaching 'big pictures' of the past

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jonathan Howson summarises findings from the recent ESRC funded research project - Usable Historical Pasts - and suggests how its insights might inform continuing professional debate and enquiry concerning both frameworks and ‘big pictures'. In...
    Potential and pitfalls in teaching 'big pictures' of the past

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire

      Foundations and Memory
    What can the early history of the English East India Company tell us about the foundations of the British Empire, and where does that history sit within current debates about Britain’s imperial legacy? In this session Mark Williams offers a timely insight into the history of one of the most significant...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire

  • Cunning Plan 158: teaching about the history of the UK Parliament

      Teaching History feature
    2015 is something of a year of anniversaries. It is 50 years since Churchill's death, 200 years since Waterloo, 300 since the Jacobite ‘Fifteen', 600 since Agincourt, 800 since Magna Carta. Clearly every year brings around its own crop of anniversaries; this year just seems to have quite a few...
    Cunning Plan 158: teaching about the history of the UK Parliament

  • Developing a history department intranet as a resource for students and staff

      Article
    Four years ago, as an academic historian with a recently-acquired Secondary History PGCE, I was striving to satisfactorily deal with the many challenges faced by all NQTs in their first appointment. Among many other things, it was the sheer pace of the school day and the practical issues of lesson...
    Developing a history department intranet as a resource for students and staff

  • Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Louis is having problems teaching the history of medicine course at GCSE.
    Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

  • Move Me On 135: Not sure where to draw boundaries when handling sensitive issues

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Cathy Mompesson is uncertain where to draw the boundaries when teaching sensitive issues. A recent Year 9 visit to the Imperial War Museum has left Cathy Mompesson confused about the relationship between moral and historical objectives in her teaching. Her placement school visits the museum every year,...
    Move Me On 135: Not sure where to draw boundaries when handling sensitive issues