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Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2022
Alarmed by his students' random use of causal language in their essays, James Edward Carroll resolved to help his students improve their understanding of causal processes. Carroll decided to introduce his students to the metaphors that historians use to describe causation in the historiography of the Salem witch trials. By modelling how historians…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
Head, Samuel – Teaching History, 2020
Students of A-level history are required to analyse and evaluate historical interpretations. Samuel Head found limitations in his Year 13 students' understanding of how and why historians arrive at differing interpretations, which impeded their ability to analyse them. He set about tackling this with carefully sequenced planning and a processual…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Curriculum Development, Misconceptions
Hiscox, Holly – Teaching History, 2021
Holly Hiscox was concerned that many of her A-level students -- asked to evaluate three different historical interpretations for their non-examined assessment task -- still tended to hold unhelpful misconceptions about the nature of interpretations. In this article she explains how she created an introductory scheme of work to help them understand…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Historical Interpretation
Patel, Dhwani – Teaching History, 2021
Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting on how the lenses and methodologies that…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Interdisciplinary Approach, History Instruction, Secondary School Students
Foster, Rachel; Goudie, Kath – Teaching History, 2019
Reflecting on challenges that had surfaced in their own and others' efforts to get pupils to write historical narratives, Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie went back to the drawing board to consider the disciplinary purposes of narrative. They used both historical scholarship and theoretical works by historians on narrative construction. Their…
Descriptors: European History, History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
Hibbert, David; Patel, Zaiba – Teaching History, 2019
David Hibbert and Zaiba Patel decided to work together after becoming concerned that school history curricula might not enable students to interrogate popular British mythologising about World War II. Building on these pre-existing concerns, their collaboration with the historian Yasmin Khan yielded an Interpretations enquiry which asked students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, History Instruction, War, Historians
Navey, Molly-Ann – Teaching History, 2018
Do GCSE and A-level questions that purport to be about consequences actually reward reasoning about historical consequences at all? Molly-Ann Navey concluded that they do not and that they fail to encourage the kind of argument that academic historians engage in when reaching judgements about consequences. Navey decided that it was important to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2018
Puzzled by the shrugs and unimaginative responses of his students when asked certain counterfactual questions, James Edward Carroll set out to explore what types of counterfactual questions would elicit sophisticated causal explanations. During his pursuit of the 'gold standard' of counterfactual reasoning, Carroll drew upon theories of academic…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Bias, Social Attitudes, United States History
Farley, Stuart – Teaching History, 2021
Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives, which took full account of the chronological diversity of people's…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Death, European History, Jews
Pullan, Sam – Teaching History, 2022
Sam Pullan explains how a chance encounter has helped him to improve his introduction to the modern themes and founding documents of US politics. Working with a professional historian whom he met, by chance, over dinner, he was able to produce lessons at the cutting edge of subject knowledge to grab the attention of his Year 11 pupils. This…
Descriptors: Historians, History Instruction, Lesson Plans, Grade 11
Sellin, Jonathan – Teaching History, 2020
After reflecting on the difference between his study of source extracts at university and how he was using source extracts in the classroom, Jonathan Sellin went in search of a new way to help his pupils to situate sources in context. Finding inspiration in the work of intellectual historian Quentin Skinner, Sellin decided to show his Year 9…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills
McDonnell, Liam – Teaching History, 2019
Struck by his GCSE students' bewildered expressions when studying source extracts, Liam McDonnell decided to adopt a new approach to source analysis. Inspired by the work of other history teachers, McDonnell decided to use an anthology of substantial sources when studying nineteenth-century Whitechapel in London. By revisiting the sources at…
Descriptors: Historians, History, History Instruction, Foreign Countries
Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2018
Frustrated that her A-level students were being overly dismissive when asked to judge the convincingness of academic historians' arguments, Paula Worth drew on previous history-teacher research and theories of history for inspiration. After noting that her students would unjustly reject esteemed historians' accounts for lack of comprehensiveness,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Historical Interpretation, Value Judgment, Teaching Methods
Bird, Michael; Wilson, Katherine Anne; Egan-Simon, Daryn; Jackson, Alannah; Kirkup, Richard – Teaching History, 2020
Lots has been written in recent years about how history teachers can bring academic scholarship into the classroom. This article takes this interest in academic practice a step further, examining how pupils can engage directly with the kinds of sources to which historians are increasingly turning their attention: the 'everyday' objects of ordinary…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sensory Experience, Information Sources
Sellin, Jonathan – Teaching History, 2020
Intrigued by the wide range of pupils' responses to a sourcebased essay question, Jonathan Sellin decided to investigate why pupils were using sources in such different ways. Probing his own philosophical assumptions about history, and how they have changed over time, prompted Sellin to explore pupils' assumptions about how historians use sources…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Essays