Teacher Development
This section of the website contains advice and guidance for history teachers at different career stages, and those specifically interested in finding out about formal opportunities for history-specific CPD (continuing professional development). Read more
Beginner
- Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers
- What’s the wisdom on… Evidence and sources
- Get into Teaching
- ‘It’s More Complex Than I Assumed’
- Guidance for would-be history teacher trainees
- Introduction to the Survive & Thrive Units
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)
CPD
- Webinar: What can ambitious curriculum thinking look like in the classroom?
- Webinar: Assessment in history - blending evidence informed approaches with disciplinary tradition
- Webinar: The Black Death - Social and Cultural Developments in England 1348-1500
- Webinar: The Normans in Britain - Conquest and Settlement 1066-1087
- Yorkshire History Forum: Mastering the curriculum
- Book Now: North West History Forum
Mentoring
- Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively
- Move Me On 176: worried about how to deal with his own dyslexia in the classroom
- Move Me On 175: paying attention to why topics have been included in schemes of work
- Move Me On 174: Not doing all the thinking for the students
- Move Me On 173: teaching the GCSE thematic study
- Move Me On 172: Not just relying on the textbook
Teacher Educator
- Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry
- Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?
- ‘If you had told me before that these students were Russians, I would not have believed it’
- Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching
- The Dilemma of Senator Williams
- Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014