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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary thinking has perhaps become something of an afterthought in curriculum planning, for a range of valid reasons, and start to explore ways to build it back in. It will encourage colleagues to hold up a mirror to...

Session 1: Making history accessible This webinar provides an overview of recent key developments in SEND, including statutory guidance and regulations from Ofsted’s latest Education Inspection Framework and the SEND improvement plan. Drawing on SEND toolkits, we reflect on how to embed inclusive practice. This is explored in the context...

Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 2: Assessing the historical parts This session will explore how history teachers can isolate and assess individual components, or parts, of pupils’ historical knowledge, but without reducing this to an assessment of isolated facts. The session will include examples...

What does this series cover? In this series of six webinars, Jonathan Grande will explore and exemplify a wide range of types and forms of assessment that can be used to provide precise, accurate and meaningful insights into pupils’ historical knowledge and understanding. The sessions will consider the purposes of...

Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 3: Assessing pupils’ answers to enquiry questions  This session will consider how history teachers can go about ‘marking’ pupils’ answers to enquiry questions in a way that values the pupils’ own voice and independent thinking, and avoids restricting...

Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 4: Assessing the historical whole  This session will set out a range of tasks and questions, beyond answering an enquiry question, that require pupils to draw on the knowledge they have built cumulatively throughout the curriculum. The session will...

Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 5: A year in assessment This session will put forward a couple of examples of what meaningful and useable assessment could look like across a school year at Key Stage 3. The session will explore the range of...