CPD Guides

CPD comes in many different forms and through a variety of platforms. In this section you'll find our static online CPD units. These units are stand-alone, expert produced, units for HA members to work through and use at leisure. As a new teacher, you may find these units helpful to inform your planning and development. Subject leaders might like to use these units as the basis for subject meetings or training.

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  • Analytic and Discursive Writing at Key Stage 3

    Article

    Christine Counsell's core message is that, because analytical and discursive writing is seen as difficult, it is often considered impossible. Instead, those very difficulties should be the focus of continuous professional analysis by all history teachers. Counsell argues that only a thorough analysis of those difficulties will yield suitable creative...

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  • Recorded Webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

    Article

    This session explores the features of good student oracy in a non-disciplinary sense, but also within the setting of a history classroom. It explores how to identify these features in the day to day of teaching history and is part of our CPD series on effective oracy in the secondary history classroom.

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  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

    Article

    In this first webinar about writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman will talk about how ideas grow from reading and thinking about history. Once you have a good idea, then you need to research it properly, starting with secondary sources for context, then moving on to more specific reading. Visits...

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