INTERVIEWS & ADMISSIONS
Subject Knowledge Audit – History
NAME
DATE
Please self-grade and identify the source/s of your knowledge for each of the topics listed below.
Source of Knowledge / Skills (write one or two codes):
N
None (or below GCSE)
G
GCSE (or O Level)
A
Advanced Level (including AVCE, HNC)
D
Degree Level (including HND)
P
Post-graduate
W
Work-related training
Current Level of Knowledge / Skill (write one grade only):
4
3
2
1
Little or No Secure Knowledge.
Basic Personal Knowledge up to GCSE level, however you are not fully aware of possible
misconceptions and how to address them and you may inadvertently reinforce
misconceptions.
Secure knowledge / skill up to GCSE that would enable you to teach this to pupils. You
would be aware of the common misconceptions in this skill area and you would be able
to address these in a lesson.
Secure knowledge / skill up to A Level standard.
HISTORY TOPIC AREA
1.
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
1.12
1.13
1.14
1.15
KNOWLEDGE
GRADE
(1,2,3 or 4)
SOURCE OF
KNOWLEDGE
(N,G,A,D,P OR
W)
Britain 1066-1500
The Norman Conquest
Domesday Survey
Crusades
Magna Carta
Black Death
Peasants’ Revolt
Hundred Years War
Wars of Roses
Development of Monarchy 1066-1500
Feudalism
Spread of Monasteries
Towns, guilds & charters
Secular and religious art and architecture
Development of printing
Scottish, Welsh and Irish perspectives on the
1
HISTORY TOPIC AREA
1.16
themes of this era/period
Other (please indicate)
2.
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
2.10
2.11
2.12
2.13
2.14
2.15
2.16
2.17
Britain 1500-1700
Reformation in England, Wales and Scotland
Relations with European countries in C16
Plantations in Ireland
Religious persecution and Pilgrim Fathers
Civil Wars in C17
Cromwell and the Commonwealth
Restoration
William and Mary
Reign of Queen Anne
Acts of Union and Wales
Relations between England and Scotland
Jacobite rebellions
Elizabethan Poor Law
East India Company
Changing role of women
Scientific revolution
Other (please indicate)
3.
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Britain 1700-1900
American Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Development of empire
Agricultural revolution
Industrial revolution
Development of towns
Slave trade and abolition of slavery
Chartism
Reform Acts
Development of political parties
Ireland and Britain
Social Reform
Scottish, Welsh and Irish perspectives on the
themes of this era/period
Internal/external migration
Other (please indicate)
4.
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
European Studies pre-1900
Neolithic Revolution
Roman Empire
Europe under Charlemagne
Navigation, exploration and trade in early modern
KNOWLEDGE
GRADE
(1,2,3 or 4)
SOURCE OF
KNOWLEDGE
(N,G,A,D,P OR
W)
2
HISTORY TOPIC AREA
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
4.11
4.12
4.13
4.14
4.15
4.16
4.17
5.
5.1
5.2
KNOWLEDGE
GRADE
(1,2,3 or 4)
SOURCE OF
KNOWLEDGE
(N,G,A,D,P OR
W)
period
Spain and Philip II
Dutch Republic in C17
Ottoman Empire C16 and C17
Louis XIV
Peter the Great
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
French Revolution
Thirty Years War
1848 Revolutions
German Unification
Italian Unification
European Imperialism in C19
Other (please indicate)
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
World Studies pre-1900
Imperial China
India from Mughal Empire to the coming of the
British
Indigenous Peoples of N. America
Black Peoples of the Americas
Japan under the Shoguns
Zulu Kingdoms
Islamic Empire 600-1600 AD
Other (please indicate)
6.
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
6.14
6.15
6.16
6.17
6.18
World Studies after 1900
World War I
World War II
Russian Revolution
Depression and New Deal in USA
Civil Rights Movement in USA
Genocide including the Holocaust
Rise of National Socialism in Germany
Emergence of Japan as a World Power
Partition of Ireland
Rise of Modern China
Fascism in Italy
Vietnam War
League of Nations and role of United Nations
Development of E.U.
Science and technology
Development of Welfare State
Effects of 20th century globalisation
Cold War
3
HISTORY TOPIC AREA
6.19
6.20
KNOWLEDGE
GRADE
(1,2,3 or 4)
SOURCE OF
KNOWLEDGE
(N,G,A,D,P OR
W)
Decolonisation and independence
Other (please indicate)
7.
GCSE specific topic areas not aforementioned
7.1
SHP GCSE American West 1840-1895
7.2
SHP GCSE Northern Ireland Conflict
7.3
SHP GCSE Crime and Punishment Through Time
Study in Development
7.4
SHP GCSE Medicine Through Time Study in
Development
7.5
SHP GCSE Changing Nature of Warfare Through
time Study in Development
7.6
SHP GCSE Media Through Time Study in
Development
7.7
MW GCSE Post War Britain 1948-2005
7.8
MW GCSE Germany 1919-45
7.9
MW GCSE USA 1919-1941
7.10 MW GCSE Russia 1905-41
7.11 MW GCSE China 1945-76
7.12 Pilot GCSE – Heritage, Management and
Marketing
7.13 Pilot GCSE – Archaeology
7.14 Pilot GCSE – Raiders and Invaders 400-1100AD
7.15 Pilot GCSE - Power and Control: Kingship in the
Middle Ages c.1100 – c.1500.
7.16 Pilot GCSE - Multimedia in History: Bringing The
Past To Life
7.17 Other (please indicate)
8.
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9
8.10
Historical methodology
Using Evidence
Interpretation
Causation/consequence
Change, continuity and development
Chronological understanding
Significance
Empathy (incl. Cultural, Ethnic and Religious
diversity)
Historical Enquiry
Communicating About the Past
Other (please indicate)
4
SUBJECT CURRICULUM KNOWLEDGE AUDIT
HISTORY
Knowledge Grade
0
1
2
None or recalled from own experience as pupil/student
Outline knowledge based on general reading or hearsay
Detailed knowledge based on specialist reading or recent
experience of schools
HISTORY EDUCATION TOPIC
1
National Curriculum Orders for History at KS2-4
2
Regulations and Codes of Practice for GCSE History
3
GCSE Syllabuses and Examinations offered by one or more boards
4
Regulations and Codes of Practice for AS and A level
5
AS/A level Syllabuses and Examinations offered by one or more
boards
6
Research into children’s thinking in History
7
Research into effective History teaching
KNOWLEDGE
GRADE
(0 or 1 or 2)
8
Research into common errors and misconceptions made and held by
pupils
9
Resources for use of teaching History
10
Use of Information Technology in History teaching
11
Approaches to teaching History to low attaining pupils
12
Approaches to teaching History to gifted and high attaining pupils
13
Development of pupils’ literacy within History teaching
5