Website: https://sites.google.com/view/hten 

Twitter: @HTENUK

Key people: President: Dr Gary Mills; Secretary: David Ingledew; Co-chairs: Laura London and Vic Crooks

For more information joining HTEN please email: d.ingledew@herts.ac.uk 

Key expertise and roles

HTEN is a professional association established to promote the development of primary and secondary history teacher education, although most of its members are history teacher educators based in the UK it has members and supporters across Europe and beyond. HTEN represents those who work with and have responsibility for the professional education, development and training of beginning and serving history teachers.

Our purpose is threefold:

• To provide a community and voice for history teacher educators, creating connections with each other and with other interested groups; offering support and guidance for those working with history teachers and signposting and connecting members to opportunities and resources.
• To create opportunities for history teacher educators to be research informed and provide opportunities to share and develop good practice for those working in history teacher education and professional development.

To support the development of our members’ research roles; utilising the wealth of experience in our community to support and mentor ITE leaders and those with early research interests to start researching in history education

We host two half-day, online conferences each year. Previously these have included presentations from Arthur Chapman, Carla van Boxtel, Helen McCord, Sundeep Lidher and Súsanna Margrét Gestsdóttir. HTEN members value these regular and accessible opportunities to connect, and our intention is to continue with our online conferences, whilst also looking for opportunities to meet in person. HTEN members supported the ITE strand at the recent HA Conference, where we were able to meet for the first time in some years in person.

Membership of HTEN is open to all those working with and have responsibility for history teacher education whether in ITE or CPD at a HEI, a SCITT, as a history lead in a MAT or at local authority level and in heritage, museum and CPD providing organisations. Our aim is to represent educators working in History Teacher and therefore we are always glad to welcome new members. Membership is predominantly, but not exclusively confined to, those working in the UK - if you are reading this from outside the UK please do not be deterred, you are also very welcome to join us!