According to HA surveys over the years we know that supporting non-specialist teachers to teach history is a concern. In fact almost a quarter of respondents in previous surveys have expressed concern about the amount of history being taught by non-specialists. Given the current crisis in teacher recruitment and budgetary...

At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...

Writing history is hard, and motivating students to read long texts can be difficult. In this series of four webinars, Dan Warner-Meanwell and Paula Lobo-Worth will demonstrate how they have helped their students to meet the challenges in reading and writing history. They haven’t done this by bolting-on generic activities or...

Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom Session 4: 'But Miss I don’t know what to write, or even how to start!'Focus: Key Stage 5 | Presenter: Dani Hilliard The transition from GCSE to A-level is a big one and sixth-form students often struggle with a variety of...

Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom Session 2: How can we support strong oracy in history classrooms?Focus: Key Stages 3 and 4 | Presenter: Toby Dove This session will explore different strategies for promoting and embedding good oracy within a history classroom. The session will consider the...

Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom Session 2: How can we support strong oracy in history classrooms?Focus: Key Stages 3 and 4 | Presenter: Toby Dove This session will explore different strategies for promoting and embedding good oracy within a history classroom. The session will consider the...

Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom Session 5: OK! Talk to me, let me hear your argumentFocus: Key Stage 5 | Presenter: Dani Hilliard This session will look at potential solutions to some of the problems that students have writing history at A-level. At the core of this session...

Lots of schools have been busy reviewing and improving their Key Stage 3 History curriculum. However, we should apply the same scrutiny and rigour to our GCSE curriculum. We do not have to be constrained in our curriculum thinking by the specification, in fact, going beyond the specification is the...

The HA has teamed up with the University of York Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past to provide scholarship updates for teachers. In this module you will find a collection of podcasts on different topics that complement the school curriculum. They are designed to provide teachers with the up-to-date specific...

As a Senior Leader, there may be barriers to supporting line managing a subject as a non-specialist. This new short course is aimed primarily at non-specialist senior leaders and is designed to address these issues by blending practical and theory-based CPD to support non-subject specialist line managers of history departments. ...