Active Learning at A Level

Dale Banham and Russell Hall describing their action research project in Ipswich which aimed to promote curiosity, intrinsic motivation and a greater degree of independence amongst their A Level students

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SHP Conference 2012

Students as Movie Makers

Richard Kennet shares some ideas for helping your students to communicate using audio-visual media.

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Using life histories
deepens students’ thinking

Find out how Diana Laffin uses life stories to help her students investigate unity and division in Fascist Italy.

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Getting Started with The Crusades

Three activities from Ian Dawson helping students get to grips with all the names, places and terms encountered with The Crusades – so essential for confidence, when starting a new A level unit.

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Independent Learning at A Level

Ian Dawson suggests ideas for developing independent learning amongst A level History students and describes one strategy that can help students develop that ability to study a new topic independently and with confidence

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Timelines, Time-Stories and
Developing Confidence at A level

Using the example of the Wars of the Roses, Ian Dawson discusses the use of timelines and time-stories to develop an overview of the content of a new module.

He argues that an overview is vital because it creates confidence, it creates a context and it starts to give a module a unity.

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