One Big History Department
Gemma Hargraves (@History_Girls) of HA Secondary Committee continues our series of blogposts where a colleague reflects on a previous edition of Teaching History, and shares some thoughts about an article within it, with reference to where we are today. I recently read, for the first time TH 127 (June 2007) ‘Sense and Sensitivity’ edition. Although... Continue Reading →
Continuing our series of looking back to a past edition of Teaching History, Secondary Committee member Emma Bevan has returned to edition 120 from September 2005. Here she gives some thoughts about what she has found there that resonates today. A rallying cry to be braver in the history classroom When asked “why teach history?”,... Continue Reading →
Alex Fairlamb (@lamb_heart_tea), member of HA Secondary Committee reflects here on how her department has taken action over the last year to address the problem of lack of ethnic diversity in the history department's curriculum at her school. Alex makes clear the process of deep engagement with the history community that inspired, encouraged and enabled... Continue Reading →
We are starting a series of blogposts where a colleague reflects on a previous edition of Teaching History, and shares some thoughts about an article within it, with reference to where we are today. Thanks to Secondary Committee member Martyn Bajkowski (@MrBajkowski) for going first. At this time of the year, pandemic or not, I... Continue Reading →
In this blogpost HA Secondary Committee members Richard Kennett & Hugh Richards offer their thoughts about effective remote history teaching. Although updates from the DfE are coming to schools quicker than William’s cavalry on Senlac Hill we can probably say with some certainty that KS3 students will not be returning to our schools this academic... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Richard Kennett (@kenradical) member of Secondary Committee and SHP fellow for this blogpost... Lockdown is a funny old beast. Some of us have hated it. Others of us have loved it. It will surprise few people that I fall into the latter and to quote a wise hero of mine “This social distancing... Continue Reading →
The editors of Teaching History are appealing to mentors, teacher educators and trainees: do you have an example of effective learning to share? The emergency measures introduced in late March brought an abrupt end to the opportunities for history trainees’ learning in school. In these circumstances teacher educators of all kinds have all faced the... Continue Reading →
Thanks to PGCE students Dhwani Patel & Georgia Cairns for this blogpost. They model drawing upon the history community’s ‘hive mind’ to develop their own thinking about why we should teach about medieval women and to develop some first thoughts about a teaching sequence. In this instance they did this within the context of their... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Vicky Bettney of York High School for this blogpost. Vicky reflects on her NQT experience of re-planning part of the school's KS3 curriculum and how she drew on the wider history community and her learning from her PGCE to do this. She talks about her priorities and how she juggled these different priorities... Continue Reading →
