Overview As digital archives of history articles become increasingly accessible for students and teachers, it’s easy for print versions of of magazines [...]

Overview To help students exchange their research findings with each other in a particularly time-efficient way, challenge each of them to summarise their [...]

Overview When covering content-heavy programmes of study, time is always tight. Rather than delivering lengthy, in-depth lectures or getting students to [...]

Overview When preparing students for a classroom debate, present the class with a wide variety of relevant sources. After giving students time to move [...]

Overview In a subject like history, a common pitfall for students is to make sweeping assertions which are not backed up with hard data. This is often the [...]

Overview For examination subjects, content is king. Without a secure bedrock of factual knowledge, analysis cannot be attempted and evaluation and [...]

Overview The art of writing a good introduction to an essay is something which students need to regularly reflect on. I encourage students to ensure that [...]

Overview Effective note-taking is a vital skill for students, but by no means a simple one to teach or to learn. From my experience, students have to be [...]