Teaching Strategies


Welcome to the Teaching Strategies section! The aim of this section is to provide you with lots of practical ideas to help make your teaching lively and to help you address common ‘learning blocks’ that students encounter in history. For example, these might be in relation to chronological understanding, or defining historical significance, or taking part in debate, or learning dates and names. These practical teaching strategies have been developed and tested by leading history teaching practitioners. They can be adapted to your teaching environment. You can build these ideas into your planning to help you achieve the purpose of the learning for your students. 

Image: The Book of Ethics of Henry of Germany, Public Domain (The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei).

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    This article is the twenty-second of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. This activity uses the material of…


  • The precursors to the Reformation

    This article is the twenty-second of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. Five centuries of reformist dissent within…


  • In what ways did Greek inventions affect later development in European life?

    This article is the twentifirst of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. What have the Greeks ever done…


  • Life in the 1950s

    This article is the twentieth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. Life in the 1950s is not…


  • Teaching about national personifications and their use as propaganda

    This article is the nineteenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. This blogpost develops further ideas for…


  • National Personifications

    This article is the eighteenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the…


  • Great Men and Inventions: Providing Students Opportunities to Evaluate Bias and to Re-assess and Re-define Historical Terminology

    This article is the seventeenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the…


  • How did the First Industrial Revolution Change Work Conditions in Producing Textile Goods? Providing Students Opportunities to Make Thoughtful Comparisons By Evaluating Images

    This article is the sixteenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the…


  • Mathematical Wonders: Renaissance Thinkers & Their Impacts

    This article is the fifteenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the…


  • Coffee’s Consequences

    This article is the fourteenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the…