Welcome to International School History. This is my current history teaching website made for history students in Nyon, Switzerland. My previous websites for MYP, IGCSE, and European School history can be accessed through this link.
New - Extended 'super' lesson on the USA in 2025
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This extended lesson and accompanying film series explore how authoritarianism can emerge within a democratic system, using Trump’s America as a contemporary case study. Drawing on classic twentieth-century models, it analyses the rise, consolidation, and exercise of power through coercion, persuasion, and consent. Students examine how legal norms, institutions, media, and culture can be reshaped without a formal dictatorship. The films link historical authoritarian regimes to present-day politics, highlighting the roles of charisma, propaganda, loyalist institutions, and public acquiescence. The central question is not whether the United States is a dictatorship, but how close a democracy can move toward authoritarian rule without openly abandoning elections or constitutional forms.
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History classes 2025-26
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IB - Matu Double Diploma
Since 2022, Ecole Moser is the only school in French speaking Switzerland to offer students the opportunity of attaining on graduation both the Swiss Federal Maturité and the International Baccalaureate.
The Double Diploma is undertaken in the last two years of secondary school and combines the traditional, knowledge rich, Swiss Federal Maturité with the progressive, inquiry-based learning of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. For more info see the school's website. |
Other classes and projects
Matu Revision
One of the difficulties students face in the Matu exams is in identifying the historical characters in the sources they have to analyse. Below are challenges on three levels, along with the revision booklet of essential information.
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My very special (and last ever) M2 class in 2022 asked me if it might be possible to create a quiz that tested everything they had ever learnt in my lessons... 580 questions later
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