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
- Get into Teaching
- ‘It’s More Complex Than I Assumed’
- Guidance for would-be history teacher trainees
- Introduction to the Survive & Thrive Units
- Teacher Training (Survive Part 1)
- Teacher Training (Survive Part 2)
Chartered Teacher
- Chartered Teacher Programme open
- Continuing your professional development as an early career history teacher
- Chartered Teacher Programme Exemplar Applications
- Chartered Teacher Pathways
- Chartered Teacher FAQs
- Chartered Teacher Criteria
Early Career
- 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)
- Teacher Training (Survive Part 2)
- Thrive as an NQT (Part 1)
CPD
- Book now: Victoria and India: Woman and Empress
- HA Webinar series: developing your history department
- Book now: Yorkshire History Forum
- Book now: Midlands History Forum
- Your HA Webinar Calendar 2019
- CPD: Developing Exceptional History in Schools
Mentoring
- 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
- Move Me On 171: Using existing lesson plans
- Move Me On 170: adapting to a second school
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