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 Autumn 2025
- Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)
- History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
- Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
- Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)
- Teacher Fellowship programme: The Caribbean, Monarchy and Legacies of Empire
Available Events
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Autumn 2025
- HA Recorded Webinar: Teaching history when it is not your speciality
- HA Webinar: Tsarist imperial society and ethnicity
- Explore trainee membership
- HA Webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
- HA Webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
On-demand CPD
- Teaching history as a non-specialist
- On-demand webinar: Keeping sources messy
- On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors
- On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
- On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor
- On-demand webinar: Supporting planning as a mentor
Free for members
- HA Webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
- Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
- Virtual Branch Recording: Food and drink in the medieval monastery
- Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
- Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
- Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era
Teacher Fellowships
- Teacher Fellowship programme: The Caribbean, Monarchy and Legacies of Empire
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Henry on Tour: Teaching the royal progresses of Henry VIII
- Addressing Health: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
- 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
Bespoke CPD
‘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