Participants will:

• • Engage with selected HA reading and films
• • Complete guided reflection questions
• • Submit reflections in advance
• • Attend three live online seminar-style workshops
• • Receive certification upon completion

Module 1: Explaining and describing change

Cause and consequence; change and continuity

Module 2: Making historical judgements

Similarity and difference; significance

Module 3: Thinking with evidence

Using evidence and sources; historical interpretations

Each module will combine independent engagement with HA materials and a one-hour live seminar shaped around participant reflections.

• • Teachers from accelerated training routes with limited subject pedagogy input
• • Independent school teachers without formal training
• • Early career teachers whose training was disrupted (e.g. COVID cohorts)
• • Teachers trained overseas unfamiliar with the UK disciplinary tradition
• • Teachers who are returning after a career break and want a gentle reintroduction to history teaching pedagogy but don’t feel ready to tackle the History Teacher Development Programme
• • Teachers in SEND settings delivering history without specialist training

This programme will share the collective wisdom of history teachers regarding:

• • Understanding core historical second-order concepts, including: change and continuity; cause and consequence; significance; similarity and difference; and evidence and interpretations.
• • Addressing frequent pupil and teacher misconceptions relating to these concepts.
• • Gaining some practical classroom strategy ideas and approaches that can be used to teach historical concepts.

Ruth Lingard, FHA is a PGCE Tutor for History at the University of York as well as a Head of History. She a strong interest in teaching a more representative history to her students and coordinates YorkClio, the network for History teachers in York and the surrounding area. A former member of the HA Secondary Committee, she has written and presented extensively on history education, including for Teaching History.

Dan Nuttall is the PGCE Curriculum Leader at the University of York. He has over twenty years' experience in the history classroom, including departmental leadership. He has also presented and written on history teaching widely, including writing for Teaching History in addition to textbook authorship.

The programme is charged at £108 for HA members and £164.40 for non-members (inclusive of VAT). Payment is available by card only.