Curriculum Issues
The materials in this section are intended to help teachers think about the relationship between academic and school history – using their knowledge of the work of historians and their knowledge of the needs, interests and current abilities of their students to help in devising appropriate curricula and worthwhile activities. Read more
Extended Reading
- It’s just reading, right? Exploring how Year 12 students approach sources
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
- What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading
- ‘This extract is no good, Miss!’
- Reading? What reading?
Extended Writing
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
- ‘Weaving’ knowledge
- What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing
- Deepening Year 9’s knowledge for better causation arguments
- ‘One big cake’: substantive knowledge of the mid-Tudor crisis in Year 7 students’ writing
- The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
Historical Argument
- Move Me On 192: analytical focus with diverse histories
- Short cuts to deep knowledge
- Historical learning using concept cartoons
- Move Me On 186: trainee provides little scope for students to use their knowledge in analysis/argument
- Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
- The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
Narrative in history
- Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom
- ‘Compressing and rendering’: using biography to teach big stories
- Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making
- Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
- Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum
- Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust
Inclusion
- Disability history resources
- Decolonising sources: helping Year 9 pupils critically evaluate colonial sources
- Education White Paper and SEND Review 2022
- Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design
- Recorded webinar: Exploring representations and attitudes to disability across history
- Recorded webinar: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector
Independent Learning
- The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Making reading routine
- Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus
- ‘This extract is no good, Miss!’
- From road map to thought map: helping students theorise the nature of change
Digital history
- Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership
- Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
- Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills
- Triumphs Show 160: Prezi and propaganda
- Using databases to explore the real depth in the data
- Using Twitter in the History Classroom