LEARNING RESOURCES
A set of learning resources for the Key Stage 3 History curriculum has been produced in collaboration with Dan Lyndon-Cohen, Director of the Schools History Project and the Lead Practitioner for Humanities at Park View School, London. It consists of seven tailored lessons and includes themes on migration, the British Empire and the partition of India, and communication, culminating in a practical lesson plan on oral history as a discipline. The learning resources pack includes a PowerPoint presentation, a number of classroom hand-outs, and video tutorials for each lesson, ensuring that those teaching the Tape Letters module have the support and guidance to deliver the unit successfully.
These resources aim to introduce oral history as an impactful and effective approach to historical studies and engage students with narratives often under-represented or side-lined within the mainstream curriculum, such as the British presence in India and the associated South-Asian experience of migration to the UK. Sound and a focus on orality have been intentionally centralised within the Tape Letters learning resources pack, encouraging a supplementary approach to traditional text-based study.
“I grew up with the ‘Kings, Queens, and Battles’ approach to history, but demonstrating that people are themselves living books and living histories, and being able to apply that in a classroom setting was rewarding and genuinely exciting. Drawing directly from the Tape Letters archive and applying an oral/aural approach in developing the lesson plans meant students could listen to direct audio testimony and understand how large socio-political events and micro-interpersonal politics combine to manifest in people’s lives. As an observer in the classroom, I sensed the children experienced a more tangible approach to history.”
THE TAPE LETTERS OUTPUTS:
● Apps
● Archive
● Digital Exhibition
● Learning Resources
● Photo Series
● Physical Exhibitions
● Podcast
● Poetry Booklet
● Project Booklet
● Radio Series
● Sound Installation
● Talks & Events
● Videos
A set of learning resources for the Key Stage 3 History curriculum has been produced in collaboration with Dan Lyndon-Cohen, Director of the Schools History Project and the Lead Practitioner for Humanities at Park View School, London. It consists of seven tailored lessons and includes themes on migration, the British Empire and the partition of India, and communication, culminating in a practical lesson plan on oral history as a discipline. The learning resources pack includes a PowerPoint presentation, a number of classroom hand-outs, and video tutorials for each lesson, ensuring that those teaching the Tape Letters module have the support and guidance to deliver the unit successfully.
These resources aim to introduce oral history as an impactful and effective approach to historical studies and engage students with narratives often under-represented or side-lined within the mainstream curriculum, such as the British presence in India and the associated South-Asian experience of migration to the UK. Sound and a focus on orality have been intentionally centralised within the Tape Letters learning resources pack, encouraging a supplementary approach to traditional text-based study.
“I grew up with the ‘Kings, Queens, and Battles’ approach to history, but demonstrating that people are themselves living books and living histories, and being able to apply that in a classroom setting was rewarding and genuinely exciting. Drawing directly from the Tape Letters archive and applying an oral/aural approach in developing the lesson plans meant students could listen to direct audio testimony and understand how large socio-political events and micro-interpersonal politics combine to manifest in people’s lives. As an observer in the classroom, I sensed the children experienced a more tangible approach to history.”