Recorded webinar series: Teaching a people's history at GCSE: significant for who?
Funded webinar series for secondary teachers from the HA and the Inclusive Histories project
Have you ever felt that teaching significance at Key Stage 4 is hard with a limited cast of characters?
Do students ask questions that you don’t have the resources to answer?
Are you stuck for sources that push the standard narratives of key topics?
These four workshops will fix that: building on research undertaken at eight key partner archives by the Inclusive Histories project, explore how building more voices and perspectives into GCSE topics can be easily actionable for teachers, and inherently skill-honing for students. Taking four popular topics which feature in and beyond the project’s core specification (AQA’s Power and the People thematic module) this series will share and model ways to use new stories, resources and sources, workshopping strategies to incorporate them into time-stretched GCSE schemes of work, and offering opportunities to stretch and strengthen your subject knowledge.
Across the webinars, the webinars focus on fundamental GCSE concerns — sources, factors, and comparisons — to guide our key topic: significance. We often ask students to think about significance, but to do this, they need to think about how significance varies for different groups and individuals, in what ways and why — significant for who?
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How is the series structured and delivered?
The series consists of four recorded webinars, available in this module. They can be viewed in sequence or as stand-alone sessions.
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Who is the series for?
The webinars are for anyone who teaches GCSE history or who wants to build their knowledge on the Magna Carta, American Revolution, the Great Reform Act, or the Brixton Uprising. They will be particularly useful for those who teach the AQA Power and the People specification, but the sessions and materials are more broadly relevant.
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What are the learning outcomes?
- • Increase confidence in diversifying KS4 history curricula through the integration of new archival stories, perspectives and resources.
- • Enhance teaching of significance at GCSE by helping students analyse how historical importance differs across communities, groups and individuals.
- • Plan practical ways to embed inclusive materials into existing GCSE topics without adding extra curriculum time.
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Who is leading the series?
This series is run by chief consultant teacher James Ellis (Hastings Academy) and project officer and former teacher Jess Brown from the Inclusive Histories project, of which the HA is a partner organisation. It is an AHRC-funded, Royal Holloway, University of London-based, AQA-partnered project, working to support teachers by creating 200+ inclusive resources into GCSE history classrooms.
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Is there a cost?
These webinars are free for anyone to access and have been funded by the Inclusive Histories project — an AHRC-funded, Royal Holloway, University of London-based, HA- and AQA-partnered project working to support teachers by creating 200+ inclusive resources into GCSE history classrooms.
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