One Big History Department
We will be posting a series of posts about topics relating to Black History Month and promoting great resources out there. At the HA we are concerned to support history teachers as they seek to teach in a way that better represents the past. Have you got your hands on the most recent copy of... Continue Reading →
Last week the Historical Association was contacted by a history teacher member wanting help. The department they work in is under scrutiny for 'poor' results. The advice the department had been given was to differentiate all GCSE lessons into 3 or maybe 4 pathways. The department has mixed ability teaching groups with targets ranging from... Continue Reading →
This year's HA Great Debate for Schools is “Should we judge historical figures by the morals of today?” The HA is really pleased to be organising this in partnership with BBC World Histories and the final will once again be at Windsor Castle. Before the final in March 2020 there are regional heats around the country... Continue Reading →
Sometimes on #OBHD we get the chance to share quality resources that colleagues have made. Thanks to Mary Brown (@MissBHist) for this one: C20th overview card sort C20th overview glossary It's designed to address the themes of: conflict, empire, ideas and beliefs, migration, everyday life and power across the century. It's been planned for... Continue Reading →
The Secondary Committee at the HA is keen to challenge and support all history teachers to teach about the rich and multi-faceted past. Gemma Hargraves (@History__Girls) has written this blogpost to help colleagues teaching Chartism. In it she provides some interpretations and ideas for resources. As she says: "this isn’t just about pupils seeing themselves in... Continue Reading →
When the Historical Association invited me and several other teachers to design new schemes of work for the website, we had two new resources upon which to draw. The first was the new and exciting scholarship that had emerged to coincide with the centenary, including works like Jane Robinson’s Hearts and Minds and Fern Riddell’s... Continue Reading →
Enquiry questions – the back story! Editors' note: Thanks to Hugh Richards for organising all of us and co-ordinating this post. His lovely tables had to be posted as screen-shots. The Word Doc of the same material is here: Enquiry Questions
"What do you do in the holidays?" Thanks to Jacob Keet, History Teacher at Christ's Hospital in Horsham, West Sussex, for sharing his film clips - getting big stories and concepts across to students in an engaging way. He picks up the important theme of engaging students with history around them and helping them to... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Louisa Dunn, Head of History, Westcliff High School for Girls, for writing this blogpost. She's at @LouisaKDee (and says... "not that I am very active, but I am happy for people to contact me with questions etc.") A new Historical Association Teacher Fellowship has just been announced on the Korean War and applications... Continue Reading →
