Skills under the microscope
After teaching A level History since 2004, I was offered the chance to write for Hodder My Revision...
Is there any point to grading students’ work?
There has been for some time a critical body of educational researchers that believe grading...
Ineffective revision practices
It’s strange, throughout my teacher training and career, nobody has EVER run any professional...
History Rocks Book Review: Coursework Workbook AQA (2018)
We applaud Hodder for being the first to publish a student coursework book. The fact that this has...
5 reasons to include oral history in the classroom
So often oral history has been snubbed and labelled as ‘soft’, hearsay and subjective. The classroom...
5 Reasons why provenance is done badly
1. Too generic Comments upon provenance are often very general and go little beyond what is said in