History teaching

Teaching the Holocaust or Sho'ah

Teaching secondary school learners about the horrors of the Holocaust or Sho'ah is as important as it is emotionally complex. Trying to...

Should Statues Of Individuals And Monuments Of Events That Are Controversial Be Removed?

I am really keen that my students are able to have the time and space to think and discuss issues that are not part of our national...

Making Thinking Visible: Peeling the Fruit

I spent the past 5 months creating digital teaching resources and now that I find myself back in the classroom with real-life students, I...

Teaching online in an emergency

I wanted to share a tutorial that I made for Euroclio on how to make engaging video lessons and tasks

Using quotations and historiography in academic History writing

A common issue facing students studying History in senior schools is the difficulty in incorporating historiography and quotations into thei

Vive la Writing Revolution!

I came across the concept of 'The Writing Revolution' through the work of Judith Hochman, Natalie Wexler and Doug Lemov. Hochman Method

Encouraging critical thinking and prediction casting

Whenever I am planning a History lesson, I always consider the skills that I am going to develop among my students. I like to teach...

Meta-cognition and the evaluation of historical skills

Focusing on meta-cognition skills in the teaching of History

How to boost real learning in the History classroom

I have been redeveloping all of my Nazi Germany lessons of late as I decided this session to take a hard look at the effectiveness of