Initial Teacher Trainers
The original History Initial Teacher Trainer materials (HITT) were written some years ago to support all history educators working with beginning teachers. This included school-based mentors and university-based tutors engaged in initial teacher education. The project was funded by the Teacher Development Agency (a body which no longer exists), which made it possible to draw widely on research and on the experience of history teacher educators working in different contexts. While some of the materials are now quite dated (in that they refer to previous versions of the National Curriculum, for example), the essential advice that they offer about what history teachers need to learn and about how that learning can be effectively structured and organised, as well as the research insights that they provide into the processes of adult learning, remain highly relevant. Many of the units may be particularly useful for those in school who are taking on new roles in teacher education, perhaps moving beyond mentoring to planning and structuring the whole school-based curriculum that history trainees are now following.
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Film: Teaching history for beginners... Becoming a reflective practitioner
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Film: The use of educational talk in history learning and teaching
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Film: Lesson sequences
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Film: Historians and the past
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Film: Formative Assessment
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Film: Building Subject Knowledge Quickly
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Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A
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Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 6-10)
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Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 1-5)
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Film: Teaching history for beginners... Disciplinary concepts
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Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry
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‘If you had told me before that these students were Russians, I would not have believed it’
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Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching
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Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014
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A history trainee early in their teaching placement
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A history trainee nearing the end of their main teaching placement
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Film: Trainee and mentor review a lesson and discuss the trainee's progress
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Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts
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