The series consists of five webinar recordings, each lasting approximately 1 hour. The webinar series was originally recorded in Autumn 2023.

Session 1: Developing subject knowledge
This first webinar will begin with the question: What do beginning and early career history teachers need to know about history? It will explore the substantive and disciplinary subject knowledge that is essential for effective history teaching and suggest practical strategies for supporting beginning and early career teachers to develop this.

Session 2: Supporting planning
In the second webinar, Victoria and Laura model how they get beginning and early career teachers planning with a strong sense of coherence, direction and historical purpose over a sequence of lessons.

Session 3: Observation and feedback
In the third webinar, Laura and Victoria explore strategies for dialogic and history-specific observation and post-lesson reflection. This session will focus on how mentors can forefront historical learning in the observation cycle.

Session 4: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories
The fourth webinar considers how to support beginning and early career history teachers to tackle more sensitive, emotive and controversial histories in the classroom, and harness the potential of their mentee to bring new scholarship to the curriculum.

Session 5: 'Move Me On' skills practice (FREE to HA members)
This final webinar of the series brings together the strands of mentoring through a ‘Move Me On’ style case-studies workshop, with participants tackling common mentoring quandaries together.

The series is suitable for anyone involved in mentoring history teachers in secondary schools or with an aspiration to become a mentor.

This webinar series will enable you to:

• • Understand the core principles that underpin the effective subject-specific mentoring of beginning and early career history teachers
• • Feel confident to effectively support the next generation of history teachers to succeed and love being a history teacher

The series is led by Laura London and Victoria Crooks. They are the co-chairs of the History Teacher Education Network (HTEN) and co-authors of Mentoring history teachers in the secondary school: A practical guide (2023).

Each webinar is charged at £30 for HA members and £45 for non-members (VAT is zero-rated). You must be logged in to your membership account to access the member rate.

You can purchase and access each set of webinars using the links provided. Once you have purchased each webinar, the recording will be available to view at the bottom of the relevant resource page until the stated expiry date.

Expiry date: 5 April 2027

Payment is available by card only. We are unable to arrange block purchases or issue invoices, but VAT receipts are available upon request.