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: Successfully teaching the new GCSE in two years
- Webinar: Easy, accessible, attention-grabbing approaches
- National Teacher Learning Day webinars
- Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
- Your HA Webinar Calendar 2020: Covid-19 update
- CPD: Developing Exceptional History in Schools
Mentoring
- 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
- 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
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