Opinion On History Teaching and Education
Don’t let AI do the thinking
One of the problems we are all facing is pupils’ over-reliance on AI for tidy and time-saving answers. It is the very fact that pupils can get quick answers that…
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The state of primary history 25 years on
One of the drawbacks of being a historian is you just can’t help yourself when it comes to looking at historical documents. Yesterday I came across my copy of HMI’s…
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Time to drop insanity of a 3 year GCSE history course
Of all the phases of history education pupils now go through, KS4 is by far the least appealing. So why 50% of schools prolong the agony of KS4 by starting…
Read MoreOFSTED’s sensible approach to progression
OFSTED’s 2019 draft Framework for Inspection is full of very welcome comments about the central importance of having a high-quality curriculum. It follows this up with some equally welcome strictures…
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Ignorant minister Nick Gibb says history teachers don’t use textbooks
Nick Gibb climbed on his hobby horse again this week and criticised teachers for not using textbooks more. The replacement of textbooks with work sheets and hundreds of thousands of…
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Gove’s reply to my letter criticising his inane proposals for NC history,sent via my MP
You might be interested in Gove’s response to my criticism of the new NC proposals, sent via my local MP. He says that in recent years ” the national curriculum…
Read MoreWritten by Neil Thompson
All content on Keystage history is written and quality assured by Neil Thompson, a former history teacher, county history adviser and Ofsted inspector with more than 30 years’ experience in history education.