One Big History Department
This blogpost describes a really effective school link up as a result of discussions at Teach Meet History Icons back in March 2018. Here, Martyn Bajkowski, HA Secondary Committee, describes how he and Alex Fairlamb, lead coordinator of TMHistoryIcons, worked together to motivate their students to put in effort and develop clarity with their historical... Continue Reading →
Following on from the Cottenham Village College team's blogpost about their experience with the Ofsted pilot, we are grateful to the team at Fairfield School for sharing with us their thinking and connecting and working journey to revamp their KS3 curriculum... Now that new A Levels and GCSEs are more set up, many of us... Continue Reading →
The Historical Association Secondary Committee have put together this HA_Historical_Fiction_listlist for people to use with their students. It is designed to help history teachers to inspire students of all ages in secondary school to read historical fiction for pleasure and also to get better at doing history. Please share it! Historical fiction works very powerfully... Continue Reading →
How can History departments lead the way in closing the progress gap for disadvantaged students? The progress and attainment gaps for disadvantaged students are a source of much soul searching in our profession, and almost the only sure answer we have is that there is no easy solution. However, despite the stubborn and depressing national... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year! May 2019 be kind and also full of really effective and inspiring history teaching - including of more diverse pasts! The Historical Association has welcomed the Royal Historical Society's 2018 'Race, Ethnicity and Equality' report that highlights the need for greater diversity in UK History and is committed to helping school history... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago Christine Counsell (@Counsell-C) gave the benefit of her wisdom and her encyclopedic knowledge of Teaching History articles to all of us seeking to understand the role of the historical enquiry question in great history teaching. In case you missed it on @twitter, here it is reproduced with links to the articles... ... Continue Reading →
Trying to help your students to learn all that 'stuff' for GCSE? Here's a great idea from Ben Taylor (@BenTaylor_CSS) ... The memory palace technique originated in Ancient Greece and has endured down the centuries. Yet recently it has been made to seem beyond ordinary folk due to its use by Sherlock in the BBC... Continue Reading →
The Secondary strand HA Conference 2018 resources are now online on the HA site. What a weekend of historical riches that was! As we read these, members of the Secondary Committee were revisiting that wonderful few days in Stratford-upon-Avon in the spring. But what has stayed with us? Well, it has to be said that the first... Continue Reading →
This week there was a great example of OBHD in action on @twitter. It goes like this... a history teacher reads a Teaching History article, has a great idea and produces a nifty resource to help her students. Thank you to Rachel Lines (@historyweights) of Purbeck School for this super idea. Here in her own... Continue Reading →
