Hard to teach. Secondary history. Volume 1

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Getting to grips with interpretation in history is an intellectual challenge for pupils and a skill that many teachers find hard to teach. Here Ben Walsh, author and teacher-trainer, gives some expert advice on ways to introduce and then develop this skill into secondary history teaching.Ben and Esther Arnott, a second year teacher from Lampton School in London, take a step-by-step look at how to incorporate and weave interpretations into her Year 7 lessons on Henry II and Becket. They start by getting pupils to explore the idea of reputations and then develop the lesson around film sources and authorship , with a view to understanding why Henry II has the negative reputation that he has today. Ben believes that this is just the start of a long process and that interpretation needs to be embedded into lessons and schemes of work. The techniques and approaches he and Esther explore can be helpful across a range of history topics.