Subject leaders
As a subject leader, you have a very important role – that of leading the subject across the school; everything from the curriculum and teaching and learning provision, pupil engagement and enrichment, to administration and developing yourself and your department. In this section you will find the role of the subject leader carefully broken down and full of supportive resources, articles and guidance to ensure that history leads the way in your school.
Research & Guidance
- Tracking the health of history in England’s secondary schools
- HA response to the DFE consultation on CPD
- New Thematic GCSE Content
- Progression & Assessment without Levels - Guide
- Progression without Levels
- Teaching History 153 Supplement: Curriculum Evolution
Enrichment
- Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history
- Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history
- Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons
- Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry
- Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching
- Learning without limits
Organisation and Admin
- Low-stakes testing
- Taking control of assessment
- Building meaningful models of progression
- Securing contextual knowledge in year 10
- Data handling security guidance for schools
- Nutshell
Developing the Dept
- Triumphs Show 172: The history classroom lending library
- Thinking makes it so: cognitive psychology and history teaching
- Making rigour a departmental reality
- Promoting rigorous historical scholarship
- New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance
- Cunning Plan 163.2: Developing an A-level course in medieval history