Teacher Development
This section of the website contains advice and guidance for history teachers at different career stages:
- Beginners: for those who are just exploring the idea of becoming a history teacher, plus specific guidance for those who are currently training to teach
- Early Career Teachers: some of these materials may also be useful to teachers of other subjects who have taken on history without any formal training
- Mentoring: a wealth of advice and resources for those responsible for supporting history trainees and newly qualified history teachers
- Teacher educators: resources about the process of learning to teach history
- We also have a separate section for history-specific CPD (continuing professional development).
Beginner
- Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A
- Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 6-10)
- Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 1-5)
- Film: Teaching history for beginners... Disciplinary concepts
- Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers
- What’s the wisdom on… Evidence and sources
Chartered Teacher
- The Chartered Teacher Programme (CTHist)
- Chartered Teacher Criteria
- Chartered Teacher Pathways
- Chartered Teacher FAQs
- Chartered Teacher (CTHist) terms and conditions
- Chartered Teacher Programme Exemplar Applications
Early Career
- Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers
- What’s the wisdom on… Evidence and sources
- Continuing your professional development as an early career history teacher
- Move Me On 168: teaching exam classes
- Introduction to the Survive & Thrive Units
- Teacher Training (Survive Part 1)
Mentoring
- Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19
- Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19
- Move Me On 179: Supporting new history teachers in a lockdown
- Move Me On 178: trainee sees all observation as assessment
- Move Me On 178: trainee sees all observation as assessment
- Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively
Teacher Educator
- Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A
- Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 6-10)
- Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 1-5)
- Film: Teaching history for beginners... Disciplinary concepts
- Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry
- Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?