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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. They are ‘quick fixes’ and are not of themselves enough to make a great teacher. Excellent history teachers have a very clear understanding of the discipline of history, they know what is meant by historical thinking, and they are part of a community of professionals who are constantly debating what is meant by progression in history and sharing ideas about good practice.
Hopefully not too many classrooms look like the picture above in the 21st century!
From the EUROCLIO Manifesto on High Quality History, Heritage and Citizenship Education, via the explanations of historical thinking and learning activities on Historiana, to this dedicated section about teaching strategies, we aim to support your history teaching. We welcome feedback on the teaching strategies. How have you developed them further? What other great ideas do you have that you can share? We would love to hear from you! Please send your feedback to labs@historiana.eu.
Image: The Book of Ethics of Henry of Germany, Public Domain (The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei).
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Art as Evidence: Using Artwork to Understand Life in Medieval Universities
This article is the thirteenth 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. […]
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The Last Supper: Changing Depictions
This article is the twelve 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 […]
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Lest We Forget: Colonial Contributions to WWI
This article is the eleventh 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 […]
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Things that changed the world: Communicating Napoleon’s legacy
This article is the tenth of an ongoing series from EUROCLIO and Europeana 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 on labs.historiana.eu. As a […]
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A matter of perspective: Encountering different views of Napoleon in the classroom
This article is the ninth of an ongoing series from EUROCLIO and Europeana 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 on labs.historiana.eu. Today, Napoleon […]
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Women Working
This article is the eight of an ongoing series from EUROCLIO and Europeana 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 on labs.historiana.eu. Source collection […]
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What makes a key moment? Helping students evaluate historical significance in the Napoleonic Wars.
This article is the seventh of an ongoing series from EUROCLIO and Europeana 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 on labs.historiana.eu. A recent […]
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The Age of Synergies
This article is the sixth of an ongoing series from EUROCLIO and Europeana 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 […]
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Energy in the pre-industrial world
This article is the fifth of an ongoing series from EUROCLIO and Europeana 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 […]
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Bringing us together: Railways and Connectivity in the classroom
This article is the fourth of an ongoing series from EUROCLIO and Europeana 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 […]