Developing Subject Knowledge, Skills and Understanding for Teaching and Learning in History

Aims

To develop the subject knowledge, skills and understanding for high quality history teaching and learning in the primary classroom.

Overview

This three-part programme supports primary practitioners to reflect on and improve their teaching of history. Each session lasts half a day.

Session 1 looks at what we choose to teach (live via Zoom)

• Creating a strong rationale to engage children in each bit of history learning
• Ensuring you have a rich progression in skills and knowledge
• What should we include in the ‘perfect’ history lesson?

Session 2 is an on-demand recording to support reflection and activities. It will explore five ideas for exciting history, including:

• Taking your history outdoors
• Engaging ways to expand and enrich historical vocabulary
• Using impact, legacy and comparison to create richer connections in history

Session 3 explores how we teach history, and how we establish and evidence our impact (live via Zoom)

• Is there a ‘Greater Depth’ in history, and how might we teach it?
• Assessment approaches that don’t divert focus and energy from the real substance of learning
• Using literature, sources, and other aspects of ‘cultural capital’ in history

If you don’t know history then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree

Michael Crichton

Click to watch the 10 Minute Teaser with David Maytham, CEO TT Education and James Lewis depty of School Improvement, recorded 24.5.21