HITT

The original History Initial Teacher Trainer materials (HITT) were written some years ago to support all history educators working with beginning teachers. This included school-based mentors and university-based tutors engaged in initial teacher education. The project was funded by the Teacher Development Agency (a body which no longer exists), which made it possible to draw widely on research and on the experience of history teacher educators working in different contexts. While some of the materials are now quite dated (in that they refer to previous versions of the National Curriculum, for example), the essential advice that they offer about what history teachers need to learn and about how that learning can be effectively structured and organised, as well as the research insights that they provide into the processes of adult learning, remain highly relevant.  Many of the units may be particularly useful for those in school who are taking on new roles in teacher education, perhaps moving beyond mentoring to planning and structuring the whole school-based curriculum that history trainees are now following.

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  • Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014

    Article

    An independent review of the quality and effectiveness of ITT courses, to be led by Andrew Carter was announced in May 2014 by the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The review, which closed on September 22nd 2014, looked across the full range of ITT courses and sought views...

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  • Concerns over future of teacher training 2014

    Article

    The Facts Increasing numbers of trainee teachers are entering the profession with little or no history-specific training. Opportunities for graduates to increase subject knowledge alongside subject-based teaching practice in university centred school partnerships have been cut. Our research shows that 90% of respondents agreed that all trainees should receive a...

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  • A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

    Article

    Holocaust imagery is very familiar, clichéd even. How can we get pupils thinking about it in novel ways and seeing differently? Phillips reports work completed with his PGCE students, proposes a scaffold of questions with which to deconstruct images and applies it to  archive images and to Hollywood representations. Images...

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  • A history trainee nearing the end of their main teaching placement

    Multipage Article

    This film has been produced to accompany materials in the History Initial Teacher Training units. It contains a Key Stage 3 history lesson and lesson debrief. The materials are not designed specifically to be examples of good practice; rather they are to promote discussion about good practice in teacher training....

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  • So, what exactly does an AST do?

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    Professional development lies at the heart of any thriving, forward-thinking profession. In teaching, however, despite the government’s recent drive to ‘modernise’ the profession, it can still be a bit hit and miss. What are the opportunities for ambitious and successful teachers of history to widen their horizons and engage in...

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