Subject leaders
As a subject leader, you have a very important role – that of leading the subject across the school; everything from the curriculum and teaching and learning provision, pupil engagement and enrichment, to administration and developing yourself and your department. In this section you will find the role of the subject leader carefully broken down and full of supportive resources, articles and guidance to ensure that history leads the way in your school. You will also find support from other subject leaders via the onebighistorydepartment blog. For your own professional development you may want to consider the HA's History Subject Leader Development Programme.
Research & Guidance
- Teaching & Assessing Historical Understanding
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- Recorded webinar: History teachers as teachers of reading
- Film: Making the most of your secondary membership
- Film: Making the most of your secondary membership as a trainee
- TEACH Statement
Enrichment
- Introducing History Lab
- Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership
- Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history
- Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history
- Historical Fiction list
- Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons
Organisation and Admin
- Low-stakes testing
- Taking control of assessment
- Securing contextual knowledge in year 10
- Building meaningful models of progression
- Employment, employability and history
- History and Journalism (1): Kristallnacht - How studying history can help with a career as an investigative journalist
Developing the Dept
- Driving Your Discussion
- Developing effective collaboration between schools and universities
- Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom
- Triumphs Show 172: The history classroom lending library
- Expertise in its development stage: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians
- Developing a history department intranet as a resource for students and staff