To start with, we would very much like to thank all of the people who have been encouraging and positive about Practical Histories.
We know how challenging teaching history is. And we hope that Practical Histories helps support history teachers at the chalk face by giving them some practical tips and ideas to help them in their daily endeavours.
Latest Edition
This edition is a really exciting one!
We have some brilliant contributions.
Tim Jenner has kindly taken the time to summarise Ofsted’s latest History report. We know that this really useful to all English History teachers to find out what has been going on in history classrooms nationally.
Vic Crooks and Laura London, two brilliant History educators, have kindly contributed a brilliant piece which is a must read for any history teacher mentoring a trainee. They focus on putting history front and centre of lesson observations.
Neil Bates – a Practical Histories favourite – provides us with some excellent ideas on how to use music in the history classroom. Music can be so powerful for teaching on so many levels – for motivation, as a source, as an account, to be critiqued.
The Secret Examiner provides some really practical ideas you can use to help your pupils make sense of visual sources and what examiners are looking for in source questions.
Our brand new feature, Five minutes With … is well worth a watch. Richard interviewed Professor Simon Thompson who is an expert on what effective history teachers should know. His research is illuminating. He also explains why he thinks History is such an important subject AND he gives early career teachers two top tips.
Tom Dipple, a museum educator, will help you get your pupils out and about and learn outside the classroom. He provides an insider guide for museum visits.
And finally, Where in History returns. Jonty Leese explains where in history he would most like to visit. He takes us way back in time to 200 years BC to where the first ever analogue computer was invented.
Richard McFahn and Aaron Wilkes are co-founders and editors of PracticalHistories.com. Between them, they have roughly 50 years of experience teaching History and in education publishing.
