Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 1: Why teach history directly? In this opening session, Jacob and Mike will outline what they mean by direct history teaching. They will explain how this differs from some methods that have become common in history teaching – and why a more direct approach can be...

What does this series cover? This webinar series will help you to support your A-level students to gain detailed knowledge of particular periods and to engage in rigorous historical thinking. The topics covered will include building students’ knowledge, developing students’ disciplinary understanding in order to help them construct arguments in...

What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...

Webinar series: Making history accessible Session 2: Mastering the memory challenge: running successful interventions with students who are struggling to remember at GCSE This webinar will explore a range of proven strategies for helping students remember more at GCSE. This includes:    How to avoid cognitive overload by maintaining an explicit...

Webinar series: Making history accessible Session 3: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond  This session will offer practical strategies teachers can use to support and challenge neurodivergent students at GCSE. Covering the importance of scaffolding and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, Kate Wright will offer a...

Webinar series: Making history accessible Session 4: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools  From a special school perspective, Sally Lonsdale and Lucy Bennett explore how history is encountered at their school. With secondary students working at Key Stage 1 age related expectations, history is seen as an ‘enriching...

Webinar series: Making history accessible Session 5: Making history accessible: review and reflection   In this session, participants will be encouraged to review their action research projects. Coaching conversations will encourage reflection, allowing participants to share their actions and insights. Additionally, they will begin developing a strategic plan to outline next...

What does this series cover? The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence is transforming education, the economy and society at a blistering pace. In the face of such seismic change, it can feel daunting. Whatever your experience with AI, this new webinar series will equip you to make informed decisions about...

What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...

Are you teaching history without a history background? Whether you’re an RS, geography, or general humanities teacher picking up some Key Stage 3 history – or have found yourself unexpectedly teaching a bit of GCSE – this flexible, supportive induction course is designed just for you.  With a series of...

What does this series cover? Being an excellent history mentor is very different from being an excellent history teacher. In this series of five webinars, Laura London and Victoria Crooks outline the core principles that underpin the effective subject-specific mentoring of beginning and early career history teachers. With plenty of...

Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 4: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories The fourth webinar considers how to support beginning and early career history teachers to tackle more sensitive, emotive and controversial histories in the classroom, and harness the potential of their mentee...

Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 3: Observation and feedback In this third webinar, Laura and Victoria explore strategies for dialogic and history-specific observation and post-lesson reflection. This session will focus on how mentors can forefront historical learning in the observation cycle. Release date: Tuesday...

Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 2: Supporting planning In this second webinar, Victoria and Laura model how they get beginning and early career teachers planning with a strong sense of coherence, direction and historical purpose over a sequence of lessons. Release date: Tuesday 22...

Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 1: Developing subject knowledge This first webinar will begin with the question: What do beginning and early career history teachers need to know about history? It will explore the substantive and disciplinary subject knowledge that is essential for...

Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history Session 5: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry This session focuses into enquiry and on second order concepts. It offers practical advice to how second order concepts can be introduced in a way that is historically rigorous. We will explicitly address...

Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history Session 4: Historical writing This session focuses on how we can support our students to write like historians. We will explain why PEE models and other simplistic frameworks actually limit our students and instead we should look to the work of historians as...

Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history Session 3: Interpretations: complexity without confusions This session delves into interpretations. It analyses how we can be both too simplistic and too complex with our approach. It will explore a different approach to interpretations and give practical approaches to exemplify what this could...

Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history Session 2: Keeping sources messy This session looks into how source work has often been too tidy in the classroom setting and the reasons behind this. It will explore a different approach to working with sources and evidence and give practical approaches to exemplify what...

Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 5: 'Move Me On’ skills practice This final webinar of the series brings together the strands of mentoring through a ‘Move Me On’ style case-studies workshop, with participants tackling common mentoring quandaries together. Release date: Tuesday 22 April 2025Expiry...