I'm an experienced history teacher, educated at the University of Sussex, who has worked in two 'outstanding' inner city London schools. I am currently head of history at a large school in East London. I am particularly knowledgeable in both AQA spec B and Edexcel Spec B. I try to focus on lessons which are both knowledge and skills based and incorporate a wide variety of teaching and learning strategies; particularly independent learning.
I'm an experienced history teacher, educated at the University of Sussex, who has worked in two 'outstanding' inner city London schools. I am currently head of history at a large school in East London. I am particularly knowledgeable in both AQA spec B and Edexcel Spec B. I try to focus on lessons which are both knowledge and skills based and incorporate a wide variety of teaching and learning strategies; particularly independent learning.
This resource was made for lower-ability GCSE students who are struggling to get their heads around the structure and requirements for the 16 mark question on Edexcel Spec B. I have used it recently with my own year tens and saw a big improvement in many of the lower ability students' grades after using the scaffold.
It is always useful for all students who are attempting the question for the first time.
All images labelled for reuse from google images
This is an updated version of a previous copy of this lesson that I added a while back. This version has differentiated resources, extended writing support and improved challenges for the students.
This lesson is a medieval murder mystery which requires students to work independently and competitively. Students begin in groups, by recreating and deciphering an image of the murder of Becket. They are asked to work out aspects of the event through discussion and analysis.
They then go on to work through a selection of evidence in their groups in order to work out the mystery event in the painting they analysed at the beginning of the lesson.
They then go on to consider why this event is so significant and what the problems between church and state were in medieval England.
Finally students are given writing scaffold to help them explain their findings in a piece of extended writing.
This lesson also includes differentiated resources for lower abilities.
This lesson is aimed at a GCSE class studying the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, Comecon , Cominform and Dollar imperialism. It is a market place game which will require you to have: sugar paper, and marker pens. I have included the text from the books that I used for this, but you might want to find your own information.
It is a really fun lesson that I love teaching and the kids love doing. All of the instructions and resources you need for this lesson are included on the powerpoint. I did it over a double lesson. I taught it recently for an observation and it was graded outstanding because of its emphasis on independent learning.
Students begin by analysing an American source showing Stalin choking on the Truman Doctrine. The students look at this through a square of inference. Students are then put into groups, each one looking at either: the Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, Comecon, Cominform or the Soviet response. Groups of no more than 5 are ideal. Students are then asked to read the text on their topic and after that have 20 minutes to answer the questions on their topic that they have been given. They must do this by symbolising their answers using no more than ten words and as many words, numbers, symbols as they want.
After the 20 mins is up, one student stays at their table and the others take their A3 worksheet and go shopping in the market place to find the answers to all their questions. One student stays and teaches those that come to their market place. At the end the students go back to their table and 'teach the teacher'. At the end you ask the students to revise their answers for a knowledge test at the beginning of the next lesson.
NB: These lessons have been planned to be taught alongside the Hodder Education Edexcel 9-1 Elizabeth I books and the Edexcel 9-1 books on Elizabeth I.
This download contains 11 lessons on Elizabeth I. It has been designed to cover everything needed on the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE module on Elizabeth. The lessons have been designed in such a way that all the essentials are condensed down to ensure efficient learning. I have found this type of lesson planning particularly important with the vast amount of content in the new GCSE.
Lessons include a range of activities and is differentiated throughout.
This powerpoint provides both sources and interpretations and gives advice and structures to help students achieve full marks on Q3B , 3C & 3D of Weimar Germany - Paper 3 - Edexcel. It also provides model answers.
I created this president overview to support my GCSE students in their Edexcel units on the Cold War, Civil Rights and the Vietnam War. The overview shows the key policies each president passed in relation to those events. The students have found it very helpful in their revision.
This is a prartcie exam paper for Edecel Hisdtory GCSE 9-1 to help students prepare for Section A of Paper 2 on Superpower Relations & the Cold War, 1941-91. It has practice questions and tips on how to successfully answer each type of question.
This lesson was devised to support students in a debate about whether ordinary people should be blamed for genocide in their societies.
It is differentiated throughout and also contains ‘history scholar’ tasks to challenge the most able students. It should be taught over 2 or 3 lessons.
This lesson was graded outstanding.
This lesson takes students through a variety of activities in order to support them with their understanding of the impact of urbanisation. It is fully differentiated and includes history scholar tasks for the most able.
This lesson could be used as a good introduction to women’s suffrage. It covers a brief history of suffrage in Britain beginning with the Magna Carta. It gets pupls to explore a lot of concepts such as stereotyping, profiling, right to vote, gender equality and social welfare to name a few. It also looks at 19th/20thC arguments for and against women getting the vote.
This resource has been made to help students prepare for Edexcel, History, paper 2 - section B on Elizabethan England. The booklet contains practice qs, suggested structures and tips.
This lesson is a comparison lessons between Anglo-Saxon and Norman methods of justice. Students will need to have an understanding of Anglo-Saxon justice in order to fully access the lesson. It is fully differentiated throughout and included more able tasks. A variety of activities are employed throughout.
This lessons helps to set the scene to medievel medicine. It’s particularly useful for KS4 students who are about to study medicine through time. The lesson is fully differentiated and included activities for SEN & more able students. It also includes a wide variety of activities.
This lesson has been planned as part of the GCSE medicine through time, Edexcle GCSE spec. It introduces students to new ideas and theories of 21st & 21st C. It looks in depth at the discovery of DNA and how this has impacted on preventive measures that people with hereditary gene defects can now take, such as BRCA1. The lesson asks students to consider the ANgelina Jolie case study. It also looks at how m,odern scientists began to take lifestyle factors into further consideration.
This SOW includes 10 hours worth of remote lessons on WWI. I have also included the google forms quizzes that I used as do now tasks,.
There’s an overview of what each lesson covers below:
L1-2: The significance of WWI.
L3 -4: Long-term causes of WWI.
L5 -6: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and how it led to WWI.
L7: Use of WWI propaganda.
L8: Who fought in WWI? (Focuses on soldiers from the British colonies).
L9 - 10: How far were Indian soldiers valued by the British.
This is a group based lesson that I prepared for an observation, so has vast amounts of differentiation in it.
The students look at how young people used music to rebel against Victorian ideologies, their parents and protest against war, racism etc.
Students will understand how Hitler used propaganda to help him control Germans. They will analyse Nazi propaganda to help them understand the power of propaganda.
This is a court case designed for the students to act out. It works well to give the G&T students the key parts of the court case (I always give me highest ability student the role of judge, as they have to co-ordinate the rest). The rest of the students act as the jury. They decide, based on the evidence whether Capone was a gangster or a business man.
It also introduces students to the 10 mark question, Spec B AQA Paper Two,
