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  • "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

      Teaching History article
    In contrast with earlier studies which presented a bleak picture of the impact of history teaching, Paul Goalen presents a small-scale study that is optimistic. For pupils in three schools at least, the history teaching of the late 1990s seems to be winning through. Goalen argues that the National Curriculum...
    "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

  • Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

      Historian article
    Sarah Davies explores the evidence that even in the most repressive phases of Stalin’s rule, there existed a flourishing ‘shadow culture’, a lively and efficient unofficial network of information and ideas. 'Today a man only talks freely with his wife — at night, with the blankets pulled over his head.’...
    Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

  • The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. Some of the ICT references are now dated. How do we use new technology to enhance our History teaching? New technology...
    The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'

  • Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    Helping pupils to understand sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland is not easy. For pupils to comprehend the origins and complexities of ‘the Troubles’ they need a big picture. That big picture could be viewed as the interaction of three concepts: time, place and identity. If pupils can at least glimpse...
    Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

  • Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    History teacher and head of department stand outside noisy Year 9 class. Bombs (paper ones) fly everywhere; in corner of room mutiny is being discussed ... many pupils are refusing to follow their leader's last minute orders - they will not be opting for history! The war of attrition (excessive...
    Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

  • Beyond bias: making source evaluation meaningful to year 7

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Heidi Le Cocq demonstrates how to introduce Year 7 pupils to sophisticated techniques for evaluating sources. Taking up Seán Lang's criticism of the inappropriate use of the term ‘bias', she shows how even very young pupils can be encouraged to move beyond this wearisome response to questions...
    Beyond bias: making source evaluation meaningful to year 7

  • Achieving progression from the GCSE to AS

      Teaching History article
    As the new specifications [as we must all learn to call them] arrive in schools and colleges, we must all grapple with the concept of a new qualification - a new AS representing an intermediate standard. What does AS involve? In what ways does it represent progression from GCSE? Angela...
    Achieving progression from the GCSE to AS

  • The Pittsburgh Conference on 'Teaching, Knowing and Learning'

      Teaching History article
    Peter Lee and Ros Ashby report on a landmark conference on the future of history education in the USA held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 1998. They emphasise the substantial influence UK developments in history education continue to have in many parts of the world. They also warn that...
    The Pittsburgh Conference on 'Teaching, Knowing and Learning'

  • No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

      Teaching History article
    Chris Culpin builds on recent articles by Andrew Wrenn and Mike Murray with numerous practical ideas for good quality site visits at Key Stage 3 and GCSE. But this article offers much more than practical tips. Chris Culpin sets out a rationale for the centrality of site visits in the...
    No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

  • Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On 97 This Issue's problem: Maggi Paton, PGCE student, is having difficulty evaluating her lessons Problem: It is the first term of Maggie's PGCE course and she is a few weeks into her first school placement. Initially, her mentor and other staff were impressed by her: she had...
    Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

  • Cunning Plan 97: A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914

      Teaching History feature
    'No war is inevitable until it starts.' Good quote. Not mine, but A.J.P. Taylor's. The outbreak of the First World War is a good way to test it! Did the statesmen of the day know the First World War was coming? Put another way, why was there no general European...
    Cunning Plan 97: A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914

  • Democracy is not boring

      Teaching History article
    Seán Lang argues that whilst history teachers have expressed much support for the citizenship education proposals, and whilst their practice already addresses the skills of evidence-weighing, debate and argument, there are huge gaps in our coverage of relevant content. He argues that the freedom with which teachers may currently interpret...
    Democracy is not boring

  • Build it in, don't bolt it on: history's opportunity to support critical citizenship

      Teaching History article
    Andrew Wrenn offers a wide range of practical examples of the way in which National Curriculum History (and the continuation of its principles at GCSE) supports citizenship education. He focuses chiefly upon Key Element 3, ‘Interpretations', but also Key Element 4 ‘Enquiry'. He illustrates history teachers' long-established concern for the...
    Build it in, don't bolt it on: history's opportunity to support critical citizenship

  • Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

      Teaching History article
    This project emerged from team-teaching with history teachers in history lessons. Gill Minikin draws upon her expertise as an English teacher to help pupils become excited by the challenge of ‘squeezing language' into poems. History teachers often ask pupils to write poems but they do not necessarily draw upon all...
    Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

  • 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

  • Exceptional performance at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    In the last edition of Teaching History (February 1999, Issue 94) Kate Hammond used her own planning and classroom practice to extract some principles for stretching the very able pupil at Key Stage 3. How should history teachers build on this at GCSE? One way of defining goals for such...
    Exceptional performance at GCSE

  • Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE

      Article
    It is a very common complaint that history GCSE is unfairly demanding compared with other subjects. Well, it probably is. But that does not stop history at Robert Clack School from outperforming every other subject except art. Nor is this the story of one of those schools with an unusually...
    Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE

  • Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750

      Article
    Flesh and blood people bring history to life. Capture the interest of our Year 8 pupils by making sure they engage with human dilemmas and dangers. A focus on individual people as the starting point for enquiries helps pupils to tackle the ‘big' stories (overviews) and difficult concepts.
    Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750

  • And Joe arrives...: stretching the very able pupil in the mixed ability classroom

      Articles
    Kate Hammond examines a sequence of three history lessons in order to evaluate techniques for stretching a very able 11 year-old. She adopts a complex blend of differentiation strategies. Rather than merely bolting on ‘extension activities', she starts with demanding objectives for all, as the whole-class entitlement. She then attempts...
    And Joe arrives...: stretching the very able pupil in the mixed ability classroom

  • History using information technology: past, present and future

      Article
    Alaric Dickinson gives an overview of recent developments in the teaching of history using ICT and relates these to different contexts. He examines the appeal of the History Using IT materials and places these in the context of earlier developments. He also considers the role of ICT in the context...
    History using information technology: past, present and future

  • Cunning Plan 92: The Weimar Republic

      Article
    Teaching the Weimar Republic is rather like teaching the voyage of the Titanic. However much you stress the strengths of the Weimar vessel, they just can't wait to see it sink into the Nazi sea. I have found this problem to be so bad that many of them perceive the...
    Cunning Plan 92: The Weimar Republic

  • Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Phyllis Wheatley already seems to be the most effective teacher in the department. How can her mentor ensure that she goes on learning? Phyllis Wheatley is several weeks into her second placement and her mentor, Selina, is acutely aware of how impressive her teaching is already. A degree in...
    Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

  • Children's ideas about school history and why they matter

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Richard Harris and Terry Haydn recently carried out research funded by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority into pupils' views and beliefs about history. Whilst the overall results were very encouraging (and more so than earlier,...
    Children's ideas about school history and why they matter

  • Polychronicon 132: Roman Emperors

      Teaching History feature
    Everyone has seen a Roman emperor. Whether at the British Museum's current Hadrian exhibition, or in Derek Jacobi's stuttering Claudius, or in Joachim Phoenix's psychotic Commodus, most people are aware of Roman emperors to some extent or other.1 They can be semi-legendary, or have been entirely ignored by  posterity. Some...
    Polychronicon 132: Roman Emperors

  • Cunning Plan 132: Year 7 and the new National Curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    How can we plan for a coherent Year 7 that makes the most of the new National Curriculum freedom and its almost limitless possible content? Answer: borders, boundaries (and books) Please note: this article was published before the current 2014 National Curriculum.
    Cunning Plan 132: Year 7 and the new National Curriculum