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Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
This practical series of webinars will identify what confuses pupils in primary history and how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Through examples of careful planning and activities it will show how pupils can develop an accurate and nuanced understanding of chronology and change, cause and consequence,...
Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
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Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
HA online course for primary and secondary teachers
The topic of empire lends itself ideally to a material approach – the objects often provide the opportunity to bring in indigenous voices to our study of the imperial past, while our classroom experience has shown that objects provide a powerful channel through which to access complex and sometimes uncomfortable...
Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
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Webinar series: The Olympic Games
8th May 2024
The Olympic Games:Culture and political impact across the twentieth century
A series of free talks
2024 is an Olympic Games year. Held every four years (with the exception of during the World Wars and Covid-19 restrictions), the modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event in the world. However, historically it...
Webinar series: The Olympic Games
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Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for teaching history and geography
Joint event from the Historical Association and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more prevalent in society and many occupational sectors. But what about teaching? Is AI a threat to history and geography teaching, assessment and quality assurance? Or is it the saviour for teacher workload and a creative force that can bring our subjects to life...
Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for teaching history and geography
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Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
Primary CPD in partnership with the Geographical Association
The Ofsted history and geography subject reports of 2023 highlighted several areas of strength and improvement in primary schools. However, it emphasised that pupils’ experience of both subjects and disciplines could differ significantly between schools.
This supportive, practical one-day course from the Geographical Association and Historical Association will support primary...
Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
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Webinar series: Deep dive with confidence
HA webinar series for current and aspiring primary history subject leaders
This series of webinars will address the implications of the July 2023 Ofsted subject report for primary history and support you to more confidently prepare for an Ofsted deep dive in primary history. Following consideration of the subject report, the sessions will be broken up into the three main elements...
Webinar series: Deep dive with confidence
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Webinar series: Diversity in local history
HA on-demand webinar series for primary teachers
The Key Stage 1 and 2 history curriculum requires a local study. The local study is an opportunity for pupils to engage with their local area; to discover how it has been shaped by those who came before them and how their locality can reveal broader chronological and spatial contexts....
Webinar series: Diversity in local history
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Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
HA CPD for primary teachers
Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers to bring you up to speed on the...
Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
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Primary virtual regional teachmeets
Free online history teachmeets for primary teachers
Teachmeets are a great way to find out what fellow teachers are doing in the classroom and beyond and to share practical ideas and inspiration. Over the past year, we have been inviting primary teachers across different UK regions to share their ideas and innovation in history teaching with the HA...
Primary virtual regional teachmeets
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Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
HA CPD course for history subject leaders in mainstream schools
Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are you finding it difficult to ensure and demonstrate progression in history with these pupils?
According to Department for Education statistics, in 2020 there were 1.4 million pupils across the UK with identified special educational...
Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
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Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
HA on-demand webinar series for primary teachers
This series of webinars explores the teaching of substantive concepts in primary history. The National Curriculum for history requires pupils to gain understanding about abstract concepts of substantive knowledge across periods, while the Ofsted framework expects to see teaching in greater depth than before. This practical series of webinars with...
Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
