Although it grieves me to say it, these strategies may not have much to do with better teaching or understanding of the period being studied. They are, lamentably, the product of the over-mechanistic way the...
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Teaching A Level History
This highly-acclaimed section of the site offers you a range of strategies that actively engage students in rigorous lesson activities that mimic the types of thought needed when answering an A level exam. question. The focus is on fitness for purpose, rather than novelty, but you will find plenty of highly effective strategies you will want to use tomorrow.
Teaching source work imaginatively in AS and A2 history
Imaginative approaches to source work
Again, 10 examples are provided on a separate PowerPoint presentation. The approach has been to look for imaginative approaches that really help students to ‘get’ source analysis, far in advance of...Imaginative and effective teaching strategies for A2 and AS history
Finding high-quality advice on teaching A2 and AS history is a difficult and time-consuming job. With so much post-16 work dominated by exam boards and textbooks, there is precious little available on methodology. Diana Laffin’s...
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Ways of ensuring that students think harder in A-level history lessons.
Download the 20 different practical strategies brought together in one document to make sure that students make the most of the lessons and the time between them. You will, I’m sure, be doing some of...
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