Here at the Historical Association we are very excited to announce the launch of a new regular feature to the secondary journal 'Teaching History'. 'What's the Wisdom On' will join the other popular series, such as 'New, Novice and Nervous' and 'Polychronicon'. It's purpose is to provide new(-ish) history teachers with a short guide to... Continue Reading →
Building ‘Botheredness’ making reluctant learners care about History
Thanks so much to Carmel Bones for writing this blogpost. Carmel shares with us loads of great strategies for motivating our students. Why not have a go at some of these and also share some of your favourites? #OBHD It might be surprising to discover that History is not everybody’s favourite subject?! And even if... Continue Reading →
North of Scotch Corner – a cross country approach to developing explicit explanations
This blogpost describes a really effective school link up as a result of discussions at Teach Meet History Icons back in March 2018. Here, Martyn Bajkowski, HA Secondary Committee, describes how he and Alex Fairlamb, lead coordinator of TMHistoryIcons, worked together to motivate their students to put in effort and develop clarity with their historical... Continue Reading →
History teachers’ sources of support – part 3 – TMHistoryIcons
Thanks to Alex Fairlamb and Andrew Sweet for this blogpost about the wonderful TMHistoryIcons. What a superb example of subject specialist community in action and the next in our series of blogposts about sources of support for history teachers: History and history teachers are at the heart of TMHistoryIcons, a not for profit organisation, founded... Continue Reading →