This week there was a great example of OBHD in action on @twitter. It goes like this... a history teacher reads a Teaching History article, has a great idea and produces a nifty resource to help her students. Thank you to Rachel Lines (@historyweights) of Purbeck School for this super idea. Here in her own... Continue Reading →
Meanwhile, elsewhere – a great team effort!
Last summer my history team began the gargantuan task of revising our KS3 curriculum. When we had agreed bits I often shared our work on Twitter (I tweet under the stupid name @kenradical). I had posted our Year 7 overview one evening and Ben Walsh (@History_Ben) replied asking where the global history was. He was right,... Continue Reading →
What did you read this summer?
In this year's March issue of Teaching History, Helen Snelson wrote in the Secondary Committee pages about making a 'connecting with historical scholarship' resolution. Richard Kerridge has picked up this theme in his blog about his summer reading... Like most history teachers, and teachers of other subjects, I read a lot. I guess mainly it’s... Continue Reading →