TEACHER SURVEY

History in Education Project Questionnaire about School History

Name:……………………………………………………. Date of Birth……………………

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Your own historical education
Please record here what type of school(s) you attended and when.
What style of history teaching did you experience at school?
What made you decide to become a history teacher?
Where did you train and when?
How did your training influence your teaching?
School(s) taught at
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The history curriculum in school
How was the curriculum structured in your early years of teaching? E.g. outlines of long periods, chronological syllabuses or ‘lines of development’ and ‘patches’?Please use a supplementary sheet of paper or expand the boxes if you would like to write more on this or other questions
What topics (e.g. Romans, Medieval towns, the Tudors, Medicine through Time, etc.) did you teach to what age groups of children?
How has the history curriculum changed during your career?
Your approach to history teaching
Please record your memories of the way you taught at the start of your career and how your classroom practice has changed over time. You may wish to distinguish between teaching approaches for different age groups (e.g. infants, sixth form).
Aids to learning at school
Please record here what resources/materials you commonly used in your teaching of history, e.g. books, worksheets, maps, radio, film strips, TV, video – which ones were used most/least? Were fieldwork/excursions or local history visits part of your regular teaching? Which learning aids do you think have been most effective?
The status of history in schools
Please record here your thoughts on the status of history in the schools in which you have taught. Was it high or low? Were you a member of a large/small department? Has curricular change in the past harmed or helped history as a subject? What do you think are the issues for the future?
Do you have any ‘artefacts’ – e.g. exercise books, work sheets, text-books, projects – from your history teaching that you would be prepared to lend us for our research or to use in an exhibition?
Please tick to confirm that you are willing for the information on this form to be used for research and in publications (both electronic and hard copy) arising out of the History in Education Project
and that you are willing for it to be available to future researchers.
We would like to follow up some of the questionnaires by recording interviews for the Oral History Archive which will become part of the History in Education Project.
Please sign here if you would be willing to be interviewed for the Oral History Archive
Name ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Date……………………

Please return to Dr N. Sheldon () or Dr J. Keating ()

History in Education Project, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU.