Key Stage 4
Key Stage 4 History is dominated by the GCSE. The current GCSEs were first examined in 2018. What you teach in your classrooms will be largely dominated by the awarding body whose course you choose to teach. In brief, the major changes between the previous and current GCSE specificiations: Read more
Planning
- New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
- Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE
- Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode
- Changing thinking about cause
- Using an anthology of substantial sources at GCSE
- Here ends the lesson: shaping lesson conclusions
Progression & Assessment
- Rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’
- Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching
- Shaping the debate: why historians matter more than ever at GCSE
- A guide to Assessment Reform at Key Stage 4
- Cunning Plan 162: Transferring knowledge from Key Stage 3 to 4
- The knowledge illusion