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  • Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of the 'Triumphs Show' explains 'How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8'.
    Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

  • Move Me On 112: Has problems with his subject knowledge

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Tom MaCaulay is having problems with his subject knowledge.
    Move Me On 112: Has problems with his subject knowledge

  • Using individuals’ stories to help GCSE students to explain change and causation

      Article
    Should we, and how do we, develop in our students a sense of period – or a series of senses of period – in a thematic study spanning a thousand years? This was the problem faced by Matthew Fearns-Davies in preparing for the GCSE ‘Health and the People’ paper. He shows...
    Using individuals’ stories to help GCSE students to explain change and causation

  • Cunning Plan 111: Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' is a Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing. There is also a supplementary download commenting on the C.V. Wedgwood text used.
    Cunning Plan 111: Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing

  • Move Me On 111: Having problems with Differentiation

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Frances is having problems with differentiation.
    Move Me On 111: Having problems with Differentiation

  • Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    Sally Evans demonstrates how constructing a map of Europe can enhance pupils' understandings on the causations of World War Two.
    Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

  • Triumphs Show 110: Would you sacrifice watching television for Great Britain?

      Teaching History feature
    This lesson has worked well with higher ability whole classes and with smaller groups with Special Educational Needs. It is essentially a citizenship exercise. It encourages pupils to explore their own values, to justify these values through argument and, through discussion, to understand and accept that others might hold different...
    Triumphs Show 110: Would you sacrifice watching television for Great Britain?

  • Move Me On 110: Confused by the Key Stage 3 Strategy

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Winston is confused by the Key Stage 3 Strategy.
    Move Me On 110: Confused by the Key Stage 3 Strategy

  • Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' looks at teaching Imperial China at the beginning of Year 7.
    Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

  • Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

      Teaching History article
    In this article David Lambert argues powerfully for teachers of the humanities to place citizenship at the centre of their work. He seeks to demonstrate that the division between subject-boundaries needs to be broken through if students are not to be denied what they are entitled to: an understanding of...
    Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

  • Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' focuses on teaching Year 12 the French Revolution.
    Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

  • Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture

      Teaching History feature
    In this edition of 'Cunning Plan' Diana Laffin illustrates how Tudor Architecture can be taught.
    Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture

  • Tripping over the levels: experiences from Ontario

      Teaching History article
    Here in the United Kingdom, we are used to the idea of assessing pupils’ work against Levels. In fact, perhaps we are a little too used to it. Our familiarity with the Level Descriptions in the National Curriculum, and the ways they might inform our Key Stage 3 assessments, can...
    Tripping over the levels: experiences from Ontario

  • Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12

      Teaching History article
    Are you getting fed up of ICT experts and others telling you to watch out for ‘bias’ in websites? Have you sat open-mouthed through a training session or staff meeting where the need to teach pupils to be critical of what they find on the web is sagely discussed, as...
    Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12

  • Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

      Teaching History feature
    Heather Scott gives a detailed account of the opening of a new HA branch in West Yorkshire.
    Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

  • Move Me on 101: Finding Literacy a burden

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Lizzie Lyons, PGCE student, is finding literacy a burden.
    Move Me on 101: Finding Literacy a burden

  • Triumphs Show 101: enthusing Year 8 about Oliver Cromwell

      Teaching History article
    Heather Scott explains how a two week written project on Oliver Cromwell motivated and enthused a Year 8 class.
    Triumphs Show 101: enthusing Year 8 about Oliver Cromwell

  • Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Jamie Byrom’s article ‘Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning’ (TH 99) offered a practical solution both to weak knowledge acquisition in Year 7 and to effective, worthwhile assessment. This enquiry follows the same model. The assumption is that pupils would be carrying out this enquiry at...
    Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

  • Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

      Teaching History feature
    Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
    Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

  • Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

      Teaching History feature
    Phil Smith demonstrates how active learning can motivate GCSE groups.
    Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

  • Why Gerry now likes evidential work

      Teaching History article
    Phil Smith resurrects the lovable Gerry who was first introduced to Teaching History readers by Ben Walsh. Gerry now pops up in another history classroom, and, sadly, has had a few terrible teachers since Ben was looking after him. Phil brings Gerry back to the path of righteousness. Through an...
    Why Gerry now likes evidential work

  • Are you ready for your close-up?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. We are often reminded that we remember little of what we hear and read but much of what we teach. The very act of teaching forces us to clarify our understanding and to process it...
    Are you ready for your close-up?

  • Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Simon Butler advances a strong case for ‘comments only’ marking. Good assessment, he argues, is about encouraging students to reflect on their current performance and take responsibility for their own progress. Assigning Levels to pupils’ work is often justified in terms of the generation of targets which...
    Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!

  • Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

      Teaching History article
    In this article Nicolas Kinloch examines aspects of an indigenous empire: that of Aztec Mexico. He attempts to persuade a group of mixed-ability Year 8 students to examine - and question - some of the assumptions they bring to the study of this empire. Their attitudes reflect quite widespread beliefs...
    Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

  • Teaching the Holocaust: the experience of Vad Vashem

      Teaching History article
    No institution is better known for its continuing work on the Holocaust than Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem. In this article Richelle Budd Caplan offers guidelines for teachers, based on its unrivalled experience. She demands that our teaching of this subject should aim to restore the identities of the victims. To do...
    Teaching the Holocaust: the experience of Vad Vashem