http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:34:51 +0100 6 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/images/logosupsm.gif http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11698 Am shattered after coping with my main other History teacher in the Department off for the last 3 months with stress, and wondered if anyone had some comment banks we could look at? Ours are currently not great. Personally I don't agree with them as it can depersonalise the comments but with a Department with non specialists and lots of classes we don't have much choice. Anything you have would be gratefully received.
Rachel]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:42:39 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11698 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11727
I don't suppose anyone has any decent resources/plans they might be willing to share? Trying to gather some more interesting resources for this unit for next year. Also, does anyone know or have any decent videos/dvds which they might be willing to divulge or copy (i would be more than willing to pay for them). Really just trying to make more interesting!

Many thanks.

My gathered resources are all available on: http://www.4shared.com/dir/9584340/705928/sharing.html

should anyone like to have any.

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:43:02 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11727 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11726
Bit of a complicated story but a nearby school is currently in special measures with no humanities staff due to long term absences. They have asked my school for a humanities teacher to go in and help them out by teaching lessons next week as ofsted are in and I have agreed to go.

Unfortunately I have no idea about schemes of work, levels of students etc... and was hoping for a little bit of advice. My plan is to use one-off lessons for each year group and then keep teaching those three lessons.

Year 7 - medieval entertainment
Year 8 - either Fire of London or Victorian Towns
Year 9 - Vicorian Towns, Blitz Spirit or Dresden.

As I have no idea about the GCSE I was going to leave that until monday.

How does this sound? What else should I be thinking about? I have no idea what else I should be concerned about so any help/comments would be much appreicated.

Thanks]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:30:52 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11726 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11668
I'm starting my teacher training in September and wondered if there was anyone else out there who's been frantically reading through these forums and hoping someone will start a new thread for us newbies?!!

These forums have been fantastic in my preparation for next year - although, despite the fact that I'm constantly googling anything and everything to do with history and teaching, I don't feel I'm in any way prepared for what I've been told dozens and dozens of times will be the hardest, most terrifying year of my life!!

I guess that knowing that it will be hard is the first step!!

Hope there's more of you out there so we can share experiences and stories over the next year...

Elle

]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:48:16 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11668 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11719 Carol S ]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:46:48 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11719 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11724 Wonder if anyone can help? I’ve just been told I have to plan a citizenship lesson for the department on Oskar Schindler which will be delivered to all year 9s next Monday – anyone got some creative ideas?



Thanks

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:33:17 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11724 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=10895 This surely has huge potential for History and I hope History departments are seizing the initiative. Visits! speakers! Whole films! variety of creative responses! Debates! Newspapers! Podcasts! Group competitions! We are not wedded to 50/60/70 minute slots as the only possible time-span for learning history, are we? What about a Black Death Day for Y7? A D-Day Day for Y9? An Irish History Day for anyone you like?

Has anyone got going on this yet? What did you do?

Has anyone begun to plan for such a day yet? What are you going to do?

This Forum is surely the ideal plce to swap thoughts.
Chris]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:51:48 +0000 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=10895 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=6742
I've been collecting some resources for a long time on the miners strike and I now want to design a course in Year 9 or even a GCSE coursework module on the topic.

Its an absolutely brilliant topic and the ultimate clash of ideologies: Collectivism Verses Selfish Individualism, class conflict, globalisation verses national self sufficiency. However, its not a topic that many history text books have started to look at so I don't suppose anyone has got any resources, ideas or even schemes of work that they fancy sharing on the subject?

I appreciate its a specialist subject, but its very relevant to the community that teach in. My main reason for wanting to do something on the topic is that as head of General Studies as I've been able to teach the topic to my lower sixth as part of their economic, political and social eduaction, but the new TLR system means that I can't be head of history and General Studies, so I want to weave it into my KS3 or KS4 curriculum. Has anyone got any ideas or resources that I borrow?

Kind Regards

Roy]]> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:59:46 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=6742 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11721 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:46:41 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11721 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11702 .

Please save me from even more work-am currently drowning in it.

Thanks

Kate]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:34:24 +0100 http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=11702