One Big History Department
We are in the wonderful position where #OBHD is getting so big that it can be hard to find things. Here are some handy links to posts you enjoyed and might want to access again. Or perhaps you missed them first time around and can discover anew what a fabulous subject community we are part... Continue Reading →
Many superb colleagues have grafted to make life easier for us all by creating lists and indices of many useful resources. This work on behalf of the community saves so much time and is so helpful to newer colleague less 'au fait' with the sources old hands use for subject knowledge and also 'how to... Continue Reading →
Here Emma Bevan of Harrogate High School continues our blog series for teachers in the early years of their careers and shares her experience of working together to become better history teachers. I vividly remember the reminder bestowed to me and my PGCE cohort in one of our final sessions. It was an important reminder,... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Anne Hooper, member of HA Secondary Committee for this blogpost. Anne continues our series reflecting on past Teaching History articles that can be dusted off, revisited and built upon in our practice today. As a young teacher back in 2001, reading Rob Phillips’ article in TH105 had an influence on my classroom practice... Continue Reading →
How can we prepare students for their GCSEs and A Levels in a time of remote learning and teaching from the front? - PART TWO Alex Fairlamb (@LambHeartTea) from HA Secondary Committee continues with part two of her blogpost focused on teaching exam-classes in Covid world. Once again, Alex has consulted colleagues around the country... Continue Reading →
... How can we prepare students for their GCSEs and A levels in a time of remote learning and teaching from the front? - PART ONE Thanks to Alex Fairlamb (@LambHeartTea) of HA Secondary Committee for this first post of two continuing our series about teaching in a time of Covid. Alex has connected with... Continue Reading →
Sally Burnham of Carres School in Lincolnshire and the University of Nottingham PGCE team is getting excited about the forthcoming HA online conference. Here is share's her planned conference journey. What is yours? #OBHD Term 1 is finished and I am just catching my breath from one of the more challenging terms of my teaching... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Henry Walton, Head of Humanities at Manor CE in York (@HenryWalton5) for collating these history cryptic crossword clues. Cryptic crosswords are a bit like marmite - some history teachers just don't get the excitement, other history teachers love 'em. Why not have a go? The answers are at the bottom - no peaking!... Continue Reading →
Almost as soon as we get back after half term it will be Remembrance-tide. Secondary Committee member Gemma Hargraves suggests that a focus on the 'Unknown Warrior' would be perfect for 2020. This year I will focus my remembrance assembly on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Not only because he was carried through the... Continue Reading →
Reflecting on the story so far... nurturing history teachers and teaching in the academic year 2020-21.
Helen Snelson, Chair of HA Secondary Committee and PGCE History Tutor at the University of York, writes about the HA's upcoming webinar for beginning teachers and support to teach the disiciplinary concepts. David Ingledew, Head of Secondary ITE at the University of Hertfordshire, and myself have recorded a short intro to disciplinary concepts in the... Continue Reading →
Alex Fairlamb delves back into the TH archives and is inspired by Gary Howells' work on the causes of World War One - part two.
