2nd Edition

A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School

Edited By Dan Keates, Matt Stanford, Corinne Goullée Copyright 2025
244 Pages 47 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 47 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 47 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School offers comprehensive advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary history classroom. Covering all aspects of history teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of and to enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils’ learning.... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Matt Stanford, Corinne Goullée and Dan Keates

 

Chapter 2: Curriculum Design in History

Will Bailey-Watson

 

Chapter 3: Planning Enquiries in History

Paula Worth

 

Chapter 4: Substantive and Disciplinary Knowledge

Michael Fordham

 

Chapter 5: Change and Continuity

Matt Stanford

 

Chapter 6: Teaching Causal Reasoning

Laura London

 

Chapter 7: Teaching Consequence

Molly-Ann Navey

 

Chapter 8: Teaching Similarity/ Difference and Historical Perspective

Jacob Olivey

 

Chapter 9: Interpretations

Dan Keates

 

Chapter 10: Historical Significance

Helen Snelson

 

Chapter 11: Sources and Evidence

Alex Ford

 

Chapter 12: ‘Decolonising’ the History Curriculum in Schools

Dan Lyndon-Cohen and Josh Preye Garry

 

Chapter 13: Progress and Assessment in History

Victoria Barnett

 

Chapter 14: Teaching Extended Writing in History

Jim Carroll

 

Chapter 15: Teaching Using Historical Scholarship

Victoria Crooks

 

Chapter 16: Teaching Local History

Luke Mayhew

 

Biography

Dan Keates is Deputy Head Teacher at Framingham Earl High School in Norfolk.

Matt Stanford is National Lead for History for Astrea Academy Trust.

Corinne Goullée taught history for eight years at Cottenham Village College in Cambridgeshire.