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...

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: 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...

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...

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 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...

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: 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...

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...

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: 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: 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....

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...

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: 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...