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Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
Primary CPD in partnership with the Geographical Association
The Ofsted history and geography subject reports of 2023 highlighted several areas of strength and improvement in primary schools. However, it emphasised that pupils’ experience of both subjects and disciplines could differ significantly between schools.
We are pleased to offer another opportunity to attend this supportive, practical one-day course from the...
Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
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Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History
HA short course, 10 September–10 December 2024
Led by Jonathan Durrant, Laura Kounine, Jan Machielsen, Lisa Tallis, Juliette Wood
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What does the course cover?
This Historical Association short course is an introduction to European witchcraft...
Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History
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Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
HA CPD for primary teachers
Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers to bring you up to speed on the...
Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
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Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
This practical series of webinars will identify what confuses pupils in primary history and how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Through examples of careful planning and activities it will show how pupils can develop an accurate and nuanced understanding of chronology and change, cause and consequence,...
Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
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Webinar series: Diversity in local history
HA on-demand webinar series for primary teachers
The Key Stage 1 and 2 history curriculum requires a local study. The local study is an opportunity for pupils to engage with their local area; to discover how it has been shaped by those who came before them and how their locality can reveal broader chronological and spatial contexts....
Webinar series: Diversity in local history
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Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
HA on-demand webinar series for primary teachers
This series of webinars explores the teaching of substantive concepts in primary history. The National Curriculum for history requires pupils to gain understanding about abstract concepts of substantive knowledge across periods, while the Ofsted framework expects to see teaching in greater depth than before. This practical series of webinars with...
Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
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Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
HA CPD course for history subject leaders in mainstream schools
Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are you finding it difficult to ensure and demonstrate progression in history with these pupils?
According to Department for Education statistics, in 2020 there were 1.4 million pupils across the UK with identified special educational...
Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
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Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for teaching history and geography
Joint event from the Historical Association and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more prevalent in society and many occupational sectors. But what about teaching? Is AI a threat to history and geography teaching, assessment and quality assurance? Or is it the saviour for teacher workload and a creative force that can bring our subjects to life...
Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for teaching history and geography
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Webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
We know that substantive knowledge in history is the substance ('the stuff') we teach: the facts which we are sure about and which all have to know, the names and places, the events, and well-known stories. But experts in a subject, such as historians, have different types of question they ask of that substance....
Webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
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Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
HA online course for primary and secondary teachers
The topic of empire lends itself ideally to a material approach – the objects often provide the opportunity to bring in indigenous voices to our study of the imperial past, while our classroom experience has shown that objects provide a powerful channel through which to access complex and sometimes uncomfortable...
Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
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Webinar series: Deep dive with confidence
HA webinar series for current and aspiring primary history subject leaders
We are pleased to offer teachers another chance to access this series of webinars which will address the implications of the 2023 Ofsted subject report for primary history and support you to more confidently prepare for an Ofsted deep dive in primary history. Following consideration of the subject report, the...
Webinar series: Deep dive with confidence
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Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
New funded online CPD for Key Stages 2-5
We are delighted to announce a funded CPD programme in partnership with the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research project, Addressing Health: Morbidity and Mortality in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office. The project explores the relationships between work and health in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the lens of thousands...
Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
