CPD
Continuing professional development is one of the core elements of both teachers’ and the HA’s work. CPD, informed by formal research and the expertise of the history-teaching community developed over decades, permeates much of what the HA produces, from conferences and events, to research, journals and guides. In this section, you can find our current courses and CPD series listed in What’s On, with more detail about each individual event in Available events. Take a look at our past event resources and tap into the wealth of research that can inform your development as a teacher or history leader in our CPD guides and Briefing packs. For more informal, ongoing CPD discussion with colleagues go to the onebighistorydepartment blog. Read more
What's On
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Spring 2024
- History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
- Secondary History: A Masterclass for Senior Leaders
- Webinar series: Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
- Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
- Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
Available Events
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Spring 2024
- HA Webinar: An enduring counterfactual: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
- HA Webinar: OK! Talk to me, let me hear your argument
- HA Webinar: But Miss I don’t know what to write, or even how to start!
- HA Webinar: Black Germans: the last forgotten victims of the Nazis?
- HA Webinar: How might we go about assessing oracy in history classrooms?
On-demand CPD
- Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum
- On-demand webinar: Causation and Consequence
- On-demand webinar: Change and Continuity
- On-demand webinar: Significance
- On-demand webinar: Interpretations
- Secondary History: A Masterclass for Senior Leaders
Free for members
- Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism
- Virtual Branch recording: Empires of the Normans
- Film: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Filmed Lecture: Enmity and violence in early modern Europe
- Film: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom
- Film: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
Teacher Fellowships
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia
- Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest
- Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain
- Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381
- Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
- Podcasts: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery
‘What’s the Wisdom On’ films
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity
Briefing Packs
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- A guide to Assessment Reform at Key Stage 4
- Progression without Levels
- Fact Based Quiz Ideas For Turning 3s into 4s and 5s
- What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?
- A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme
CPD Guides
- Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning
- Literacy and Oracy in History
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- Studying History at University: Teacher's guide
- Progression & Assessment without Levels - Guide
- Dimensions of diversity - How do we improve our teaching of social complexity in history?