Source Utility Questions at GCSE: Cartoons
Helping students to answer source utility questions which focus on political cartoons.
Tag: GCSE
A journey into Historical Fiction
Sean Ingram shares how his passion for historical fiction has helped to enhance his curriculum – and encourage reading.
Disrupting the specification: representation at Key Stage 4 and 5
Claire Hollis on making the A level curriculum more representative. Claire explains the barriers she faced and offers clear solutions to help you to provide a more representative curriculum .
Practical ways to include Scholarship in your Classes
In this practical article, Simon gives you a handful of different ways that you can use historical scholarship with your students.
How to improve student answers in the Thematic Study
An inside view on how teachers could help pupils improve their answers in the Thematic Study. We need to focus more on the meaning of those factors highlighted in the spec. This is a really thoughtful and insightful short article and is a must read for all who want to see an improvement in student exam responses.
Exam paper: Friend or Foe?
The Secret Examiner discusses how teachers should test their students on the structure of the exam paper why it’s a good thing to do.
A Journey from Fractured Knowledge to a Hinterland of Contextual Understanding
Colleagues Tom Cox and Jake Watts discuss how they tried to use the written work of historians to help deepen their students’ contextual knowledge. The results of their study are most revealing.
Practical Histories Conference: 1 February 2025
Inspiring ideas that you can use immediately in the classroom – join us for the Practical Histories Conference.
How can we improve our use of questioning in the classroom?
Elena Stevens dives into the scholarship surrounding teacher questioning before providing some thought-provoking tips to help improve your own repertoire.
Helping students learn with simple physical activities
Ideas to make your history lessons more practical from Ian Dawson. By positioning pupils at different places in the classroom you can really help them understand some tricky concepts.
