Being an excellent history mentor is very different from being an excellent history teacher.  In this series of five webinars, Laura London and Victoria Crooks will outline the core principles that underpin the effective subject-specific mentoring of beginning and early career history teachers.  With plenty of practical examples from their book Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School, Laura and Victoria will show how both aspiring, new and experienced mentors can most effectively support the next generation of history teachers to succeed and love being a history teacher.

Programme

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.

How to book

This webinar series took place in Autumn 2023 and we have made access to the recordings available on demand from April 2025–April 2026.

Release date: Tuesday 22 April 2025
Expiry date: Tuesday 7 April 2026

You will need to be logged in to pay and access each webinar using the links on this page. We regret we are unable to arrange block purchases or issue invoices, but VAT receipts are available upon request. 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. 

Terms and conditions

All Historical Association webinars are subject to the HA CPD terms and conditions. For enquiries please contact events@history.org.uk.

Book a recording

If you have missed a session, a recording can be accessed using the form above. You will be emailed an invoice for the cost of the recording(s) and a time-limited link to access the webinar recording on Zoom. 

All webinars in this series are also eligible for the corporate member free recording offer, this can be used via Eventbrite or using the bulk booking form above. Please see the terms and conditions for further information.

Terms and conditions

All prices are listed inclusive of VAT. 

All Historical Association webinars are subject to the HA CPD terms and conditions. For enquiries please contact events@history.org.uk.