Please help! Mapping History Questionnaire
We know you are crazy busy, but it you could possibly fill in this very short questionnaire to help Professor Musson at Historic Royal Palaces that would be amazing! He says… Teachers and pupils are encouraged to fill out a brief anonymous online survey intended to find out how we can make history and heritage sites more accessible for learning by schools. It is being … Continue reading Please help! Mapping History Questionnaire
What do we know? How do we know? What do they say? Knowledge for history teachers and students!
The name Richard Brown is probably unfamiliar to many people reading this blogpost. But Richard taught for many years, was an editor of Teaching History and is a Fellow of both the HA and the RHS. He has been creating websites for many years and the purpose of this blogpost is to make more history teachers aware of them. They are very much worth exploring … Continue reading What do we know? How do we know? What do they say? Knowledge for history teachers and students!
Help! Could you trial some resources for the Cambridge SESC project?
Please find below a message from Dr Annie Thwaite of the SESC project… Secondary Education and Social Change in the United Kingdom Since 1945 is a research project based at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. We have also created a series of high-quality, multi-media Key Stage 3 History School Resource Packs on secondary education and social change in the UK since 1945, with … Continue reading Help! Could you trial some resources for the Cambridge SESC project?
NEW! Support for beginning history teachers
The HA has launched resources to support beginning teachers and those who work with them. Are you thinking of becoming a history teacher? About to train as a history teacher? In your training year? In your first year in post? In the first three years of your history teaching career? Working with beginning teachers? If the answer to any of these Qs is ‘YES!’ than … Continue reading NEW! Support for beginning history teachers
Looking forward to spring and the 2021 HA Conference!
As everyone prepares for the holidays after the strangest spring term in living memory, we have news of something to look forward to! HA Conference 2021 will be online again and will build on the great success of the 2020 conference. The programme is ready, bookings will open soon and we wanted to share news of this to give everyone something to look forward to … Continue reading Looking forward to spring and the 2021 HA Conference!
3-Dimensional history teaching for inclusion and diversity
Here, Anne Hudson and Gabrielle Reddington, who have taught pupils and trained teachers for decades, continue their reflections on teaching history well. In the first part of our blog, we shared our conversation about the importance of a rich diversity to our history curriculum. We have continued talking and, in this blog will share some of our conclusions based on our work as, with and … Continue reading 3-Dimensional history teaching for inclusion and diversity
How can we foster students’ understanding of the Industrial Revolution, the British Empire and the Transatlantic Slave Trade as interconnected?
Thanks to Sian Ayling (@MsAylingHist), history teacher at Blackfen School for Girls in Sidcup for this blogpost. Sian has wrestled with the need to enable students to see the inter-connection between Britain’s industrial revolution, Empire and transatlantic slave trade. She describes the way that she has planned and developed this work in a way that will be very helpful to colleagues planning the same journey. … Continue reading How can we foster students’ understanding of the Industrial Revolution, the British Empire and the Transatlantic Slave Trade as interconnected?
Decolonising the curriculum one step at a time: lessons on race in the early British Empire
In this blogpost, Jen Thornton (@jen_a_thornton), Head of History at Loreto Grammar School, shares her recent work to improve the history curriculum. Jen started by listening to students, she has gone back to the scholarship to gain the knowledge she needs, she has consulted and worked with colleagues, and she is clear that this is work in progress. Her description of this work and her … Continue reading Decolonising the curriculum one step at a time: lessons on race in the early British Empire
What could Lemov’s ideas for Remote Learning look like in History?
Thanks to Alex Fairlamb (@lamb_heart_tea), member of HA Secondary Committee and coordinator of TMHI, for sharing her work with Lemov’s ideas in the history classroom. You might have come to this post through hearing her on Teachers Talk Radio too! (Apologies – to load Alex’s lovely tables in time, they are screenshoted and the links given underneath – Ed!) Doug Lemov’s ‘Teaching in the Online Classroom’ … Continue reading What could Lemov’s ideas for Remote Learning look like in History?
Beginning teaching in lockdown and beyond!
This blogpost is focused on beginning teachers. It starts with a focus on the specifics of training during lockdown. It then draws your attention to resources for beginning teachers that you might not be aware of and shares news of upcoming resources to look out for next term. Training to be a history teacher is different this year, but it is not a deficit model. … Continue reading Beginning teaching in lockdown and beyond!
