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Recorded webinar: Making history accessible: context and considerations
Webinar series: Making history accessible
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...
Recorded webinar: Making history accessible: context and considerations
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On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical parts
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
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...
On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical parts
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On-demand webinar: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history
Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
Session 1: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history
Presenter: Catherine Priggs
This session explores the essential literacy skills required to engage effectively with history at Key Stage 4. Participants will examine the unique...
On-demand webinar: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history
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On-demand webinar: Historical writing
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
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...
On-demand webinar: Historical writing
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On-demand webinar: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 6: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
This session will consider what it might be most useful for history teachers to keep a record of over the course of a year. Every time we read pupils’ work or listen to...
On-demand webinar: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
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On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical whole
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
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...
On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical whole
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Recorded webinar: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it
Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy
Session 1: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it
This session establishes a shared, research-informed definition of digital literacy and distinguishes related terms (media literacy, information literacy, critical digital literacy, data literacy). Drawing on frameworks including Eshet-Alkalai’s six-component model (photovisual, reproduction, information, branching, socio-emotional,...
Recorded webinar: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it
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On-demand webinar: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Session 2: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history
Key topics:
Defining and identifying 'impact' in the history classroom
Assessing progression in substantive and disciplinary knowledge (the role of formative and summative assessment)
This...
On-demand webinar: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history
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On-demand webinar: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Session 3: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
Key topics:
Attending to the scope of a history curriculum
Evidencing inclusive practice through curriculum design and classroom culture
Story as a tool for inclusion
This session focuses...
On-demand webinar: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
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On-demand webinar: Why teach history directly?
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 1: Why teach history directly?
In this opening session, Jacob and Mike will outline what they mean by direct history teaching. They will explain how this differs from some methods that have become common in history teaching – and why a more direct approach can be...
On-demand webinar: Why teach history directly?
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On-demand webinar: Making history accessible: review and reflection
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 5: Making history accessible: review and reflection
In this session, participants will be encouraged to review their action research projects. Coaching conversations will encourage reflection, allowing participants to share their actions and insights. Additionally, they will begin developing a strategic plan to outline next...
On-demand webinar: Making history accessible: review and reflection
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On-demand webinar: Curriculum intent in history: defining ambition under the new Ofsted framework
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Session 1: Curriculum intent in history: defining ambition under the new Ofsted framework
Key topics:
Curriculum intent and coherence in history
Designing a knowledge-rich history curriculum
Connecting intent with implementation
This session examines how to articulate...
On-demand webinar: Curriculum intent in history: defining ambition under the new Ofsted framework
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Recorded webinar: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms
Webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Session 1: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms
In recent years, disciplinary thinking has been somewhat overlooked as the 'what' of curriculum has taken the front seat for many schools. This introductory session will explain the rationale for...
Recorded webinar: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms
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On-demand webinar: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history
Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
Session 3: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history
Presenter: Gemma Hargraves
This session explores some of the hidden barriers faced by neurodivergent pupils in the history classroom, including anxiety and low self-confidence....
On-demand webinar: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history
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On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history
Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
Session 2: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history
Presenter: Dale Banham
This session explores how to help SEND learners retain historical knowledge by applying research-informed strategies that reduce cognitive overload...
On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history
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On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history at KS5
What does this series cover?
This webinar series will help you to support your A-level students to gain detailed knowledge of particular periods and to engage in rigorous historical thinking. The topics covered will include building students’ knowledge, developing students’ disciplinary understanding in order to help them construct arguments in...
On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
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On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
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...
On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
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Teaching history as a non-specialist
An induction course providing essential support for non-specialists teaching Key Stage 3 and GCSE history
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...
Teaching history as a non-specialist
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On-demand webinar: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 4: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
From a special school perspective, Sally Lonsdale and Lucy Bennett explore how history is encountered at their school. With secondary students working at Key Stage 1 age related expectations, history is seen as an ‘enriching...
On-demand webinar: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
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On-demand webinar: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 3: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
This session will offer practical strategies teachers can use to support and challenge neurodivergent students at GCSE. Covering the importance of scaffolding and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, Kate Wright will offer a...
On-demand webinar: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
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On-demand Secondary CPD calendar
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We know that it’s not easy for teachers to access CPD: workload is high, budgets are tight and it can be difficult to get out of school. We know how essential subject-specific professional development is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of...
On-demand Secondary CPD calendar
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On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 4: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
In this fourth session, Jacob and Mike will explore how history teachers can teach disciplinary knowledge (how we know about the past) directly – specifically, historical interpretations. They will share examples of lessons that directly teach pupils how historians (and...
On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
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Secondary History: A Masterclass for Senior Leaders
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As a senior leader, there may be barriers to line managing a subject as a non-specialist. This short course, designed to fit around a busy workload, aims to help line managers of history departments to more effectively understand the subject, improving their ability to support history teams.
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Secondary History: A Masterclass for Senior Leaders
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On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
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...
On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
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On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
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...
On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor
