Interesting new lesson on using 12 colourful playing cards to encourage students to work out what mattered most to the revolutionaries in 1793. Having had the analysis of one card modelled for them , students work collaboratively to decode the eleven others, each group working...
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A Level History
Teaching the Russian Revolution February 1917 and the role of the elites
It seems appropriate on the centenary of the first of the revolutions of 1917 to have a look at the much-contested view, promulgated in the late 1920s and early 30s, that it was one of the most spontaneous revolutions of all time. Fifty years of...
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Using simple ‘how plausible’ strategy for high-intensity thinking from KS2 to A level
Sometimes the simplest ideas have the most impact, probably because we don’t over-complicate. Looking for a way of getting students to think for themselves, rather than slavishly follow the ideas listed in the textbook, I started to use ‘how plausible?’ as a strategy. It has...
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2015 A and AS level history results published today
Although over 3,700 more students took A level history results this year are slightly down on last year's. A* are down from 6.3 to 6.1 and A*-B are down from 56.3 to 55.6. The gap between the achievement of boys and girls the the higher...
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