Teaching the GCSE thematic study

This feature of Teaching History is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon a particular, history-specific issue. Mentors or others involved in the training of student history teachers are invited to be the agony aunts.

This issue’s problem: Johanna Ferrour is finding it very difficult to teach the GCSE thematic study.