The advent of the new GCSE history specifications for first teaching in September 2016 has forced us to consider how we help students to develop chronological understanding over different time scales, be it a thousand years of a development study or 200 years of a period study. This will be a new departure for many current Modern World teachers, but I’m sure we’ll all rise to the challenge.
With the growing emphasis now placed on chronological understanding at Key Stage 3, it should not be long before we see the benefits at Key Stage 4. In the meantime, we can easily start increasing our repertoire of techniques and strategies for our GCSE students. . Both the International Relations sections of the Modern World courses and the Line of Development studies within SHP demand a really secure grasp of chronology in order to make judgements about progress and regress, and to
