We know that it’s not easy for teachers to access CPD: workload is high, budgets are tight and it can be difficult to get out of school. We know how essential subject-specific professional development is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of...

Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework Session 3: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum Key topics: Attending to the scope of a history curriculum Evidencing inclusive practice through curriculum design and classroom culture Story as a tool for inclusion  This session focuses...

Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework Session 2: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history Key topics: Defining and identifying 'impact' in the history classroom Assessing progression in substantive and disciplinary knowledge (the role of formative and summative assessment)  This...

Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework Session 1: Curriculum intent in history: defining ambition under the new Ofsted framework Key topics:  Curriculum intent and coherence in history Designing a knowledge-rich history curriculum Connecting intent with implementation  This session examines how to articulate...

Webinar series: Leading SEND provision in secondary history Session 3: Building a strategy for inclusive historyPresenter: Dale Banham This final session moves from collaboration to implementation. Participants will explore a range of strategies that underpin a practical, long-term inclusion strategy for their department. The session will cover: Embedding routines that support...

Webinar series: Leading SEND provision in secondary history Session 2: Working effectively with SENDCos and specialist colleagues Presenter: Gemma Hargraves Collaboration between subject teams and SEND departments has potential to transform the experience of pupils with SEN. This session focuses on building purposeful, sustainable partnerships. The session will explore: Understanding the SENDCo role...

Webinar series: Leading SEND provision in secondary history Session 1: Subject leadership and SEND reform: what it means for history Presenter: Catherine Priggs This session explores how national SEND developments are reshaping expectations of subject leadership in mainstream schools. Participants will consider how history departments can lead inclusive practice from within....

Session 1: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it This session establishes a shared, research-informed definition of digital literacy and distinguishes related terms (media literacy, information literacy, critical digital literacy, data literacy). Drawing on frameworks including Eshet-Alkalai’s six-component model (photovisual, reproduction, information, branching, socio-emotional,...

Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 1: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history  Presenter: Catherine Priggs This session explores the essential literacy skills required to engage effectively with history at Key Stage 4. Participants will examine the unique...

Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 3: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history Presenter: Gemma Hargraves This session explores some of the hidden barriers faced by neurodivergent pupils in the history classroom, including anxiety and low self-confidence....

Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 2: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history  Presenter: Dale Banham This session explores how to help SEND learners retain historical knowledge by applying research-informed strategies that reduce cognitive overload...

Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level Session 1: Building different types of historical knowledge This first session will focus on building students’ knowledge of the particular periods they are studying. It will also consider the different methods teachers have used to help their students to apply their knowledge to...

Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 3: Teaching the whole class In this third session, Jacob and Mike will argue that a history teacher should always be a sage on the stage – and not a guide on the side. They will share strategies that allow history teachers to drive learning...

Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 4: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations In this fourth session, Jacob and Mike will explore how history teachers can teach disciplinary knowledge (how we know about the past) directly – specifically, historical interpretations. They will share examples of lessons that directly teach pupils how historians (and...

Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 5: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: sources In this fifth session, Jacob and Mike will argue that 'source work' often doesn’t work. They will suggest that common classroom approaches to sources are often ineffective and inaccessible. Instead, they will share examples of lessons that teach pupils very...

Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 6: Teaching language directly In this sixth and final session, Jacob and Mike will explain how history teachers can teach words and phrases very directly to their pupils. They will suggest that 'drill and thrill' – rather than laminated word mats – can make the language...

Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 2: Teaching substantive knowledge directly In this second session, Jacob and Mike will share how history teachers can teach substantive knowledge (what we know about the past) in more direct ways – whilst still challenging and engaging pupils. They will share ideas about using lean...

Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level Session 2: Responding to historical questions and engaging in extended writing This second session will consider how teachers have helped their students to develop coherent explanations of historical processes and to form judgments in response to historical questions. The session will then engage with...

Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level Session 3: Engaging with interpretations This third session will focus on how a range of different teachers have dealt with student misconceptions about interpretations. It will first consider how teachers have helped their students to read the work of historians sensitively and will then...

Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level Session 4: Engaging with evidence This final session will focus on evidence. It will include discussion of some of the misconceptions about evidence that students can bring to A-level and how to build students’ understanding of this aspect of the discipline throughout sequences...