Followed a Tweet to this excellent blog post by Tomy Cassidy explaining his idea for getting students to create fake facebook profiles from everyone/thing from Lucifer to a chalk headline! This would work just as well for historical characters of course, which reminded me of a thread I had seen a while ago on the […]
Handing it over : Part 2 (not quite so sucessful!)
Yesterday I wrote about my plans for handing some control of the curriculum in my year 9 History classes to the students and the first of three activities, the personal project on any 20th century topic. Today, I’m going to look at the second activity which didn’t work quite as well! In our revised schemes […]
Handing it over – Part 1 (success)
In this and the next blog post I’m going to be looking at the first two of my three attempts this year to hand over some control of the curriculum to my students. Why? One of the things that seem to be increasingly important both with a skills focussed curriculum and with the massive growth […]
We didn’t start the fire
From now until the end of the year, Year 9 history classes will be focussing on the 20th century. We’ve got units on the Titanic. WW1, Immigration, Family History and 20th century personalities to come, as well as a couple of chances for pupils to devise their own enquiries, but we wanted to start by […]
History Is…
I’ve always been keen on having lots of posters in my room, that relate specifically to what the students will study while they’re with me. I’ve just knocked up a few more on the idea of ‘History Is…’. So far there’s one each for Chronology, Significance, Sources, Interpretations, Sense of Period & Cause & Consequence. […]