CPD
Continuing professional development is one of the core elements of both teachers’ and the HA’s work. CPD, informed by formal research and the expertise of the history-teaching community developed over decades, permeates much of what the HA produces, from conferences and events, to research, journals and guides. In this section, you can find our current courses and CPD series listed in What’s On, with more detail about each individual event in Available events. Take a look at our past event resources and tap into the wealth of research that can inform your development as a teacher or history leader in our CPD guides and Briefing packs. For more informal, ongoing CPD discussion with colleagues go to the onebighistorydepartment blog. Read more
What's On
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Autumn 2024
- Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)
- History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
- Webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
- Webinar series: Medieval political ideas and activity in global context
- On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
Available Events
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Autumn 2024
- HA Recorded Webinar: Teaching history when it is not your speciality
- HA Webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America
- HA Webinar: Historical writing
- HA Webinar: Creative history teaching – practical ways to engage students, improve historical thinking and boost memory
- HA Webinar: Making the most of your secondary membership (trainee)
On-demand CPD
- On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
- On-demand webinar: How can we support strong oracy in history classrooms?
- On-demand webinar: How might we go about assessing oracy in history classrooms?
- On-demand webinar: 'But Miss I don’t know what to write, or even how to start!'
- On-demand webinar: OK! Talk to me, let me hear your argument
- Podcasts: Recent scholarship updates at speed
Free for members
- Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers
- Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome
- Recorded webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
- Recorded webinar: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms
- Virtual Branch: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society
- Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour
Teacher Fellowships
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Henry on Tour: Teaching the royal progresses of Henry VIII
- Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia
- Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest
- Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain
- Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381
‘What’s the Wisdom On’ films
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity
Briefing Packs
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- A guide to Assessment Reform at Key Stage 4
- Progression without Levels
- Fact Based Quiz Ideas For Turning 3s into 4s and 5s
- What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?
- A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme
CPD Guides
- Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning
- Literacy and Oracy in History
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- Studying History at University: Teacher's guide
- Progression & Assessment without Levels - Guide
- Dimensions of diversity - How do we improve our teaching of social complexity in history?