Please do! History teacher conferences are the *best* and @shp1972.bsky.social crucial among them. Desperately needed in these times of generic pedagogy. Thank you for all you do.
Well worth attending this. If you're new to history teaching especially then know that @1972shp.bsky.social has a long tradition of really outstanding subject-specific CPD. This is a great programme. Stimulating, varied, topical, rigorous. Check it out or ask @danlyndon.bsky.social for more info.
Thanks to @egcarr.bsky.social, @counsellc.bsky.social and all the other editors of Teaching History who put in so many hours to put together this amazing journal. For this edition, I really enjoyed writing up my thinking process for an enquiry on Toussaint L'Ouverture.
It's a terrific piece Ben. Thanks so much for writing it!
The Schools History Project is absolutely thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity to work with one of the leading experts in the world in the field of History, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington ...
Have you got 49 seconds to spare? Check out our latest promo video for @1972shp.bsky.social's Developing Teachers' Conference, 31/01/26. Early Bird Tickets available from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... #skystorians #historyeducation #edusky
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A joy to see this. Feedback from pupils and parents shows #ChangingHistoriesKS3 is changing the game for KS3 history
Rich story, deep scholarly connections, rigorous enquiry questions and enquiry journeys all need to be embedded and integrated, not bolted on as extra texts.
You can read my article on using AI in the history classroom.
www.history.org.uk/publications...
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Teachers of American history, @johnsimkin1945.bsky.social has pulled together a rather nifty and very interesting history of US tariffs across the 20th century.
Wow. This looks great! Thanks for sharing. Lovely to see the book being useful in an EAL context.
Working on creating lessons based on the super new book Connected Worlds c 1000 -c1600 by @counsellc.bsky.social et al. Lessons Intended for equiv yr 8, French students so this might work for EAL. Possibly too ambitious as I have not taught these students before so no idea of their level but 💪
I am education podcasting my way around the gravel roads of #Hokkaido. First up, I enjoyed the final They Behave For Me of the year with @counsellc.bsky.social talking about her classic blog on genericism. I welcome these dips into the classic blogs of the past having missed them 1st time around.
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Really good episode with excellent food for thought for any senior leader trying to embed consistency in T&L across a sch alongside maintaining subject rigour and validity.
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A related issue is that the critique is then completely misunderstood – it's treated as an attack on knowledge, or cog sci or Rosenshine. But it's subject teachers passionate about knowledge, really thorough with it and fully cog sci informed but want to apply those things in subject-sensitive ways.
That is awful. They usually twig it's not working after a year or two, but meanwhile, the wasted professional time, the emotional energy trying hard to fight it while remaining constructive/professional, the frustration of so many good professionals...
Listening to this pca.st/episode/5203...
It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.
Thanks Alex. Great to hear that it resonated in your context.
Why did edu-legend @counsellc.bsky.social write Genericism's Children? Why is she worried about genericism, and why does she care so much about the dignity of individual subjects?
All this and more, in a stonkingly good episode!
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This short thread by Cat Priggs made me think:
History planning is about tying things together into a shape, a flow – usually a story & often a parallel flow of the analytic direction created by the EQ. It isn't about breaking things up into propositions and it's rarely about teaching a procedure.
It will be really good. @catherinepriggs.bsky.social and @egcarr.bsky.social are brilliant at explaining how to integrate rich extended story with critical disciplinary thinking. They explain the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series really well, giving great practical tips.
How does an enquiry question sustain interest, build momentum and give all pupils access to disciplinary thinking across a lesson sequence? How does the EQ help you to integrate compelling stories and rich, extended text?
Register bit.ly/4nrA8Mv for Cat and Elizabeth's webinar on Tues 8 July 3.30pm
Thank you!
Very kind. Thank you. Our subjects learn much from each other. I love those conversations where explore how the structures of history and geography differ!
Thank you!
Thank you Jonathan!
Thanks Alex. Only possible, as I said in my lecture, cos of such a strong community. You have been a towering force of good & strength in that, generously sharing terrific practice, providing helpful challenge, engaging with problematical policy moves on behalf of us all. So huge thanks to you too.
Thank you Paula! 😘
As I said in my lecture on Weds eve, receiving the Medlicott medal for services to history has been deeply special for me, not least because it allows me to celebrate and promote the importance of subject communities. We would be nowhere without @histassoc.bsky.social. Thank you HA. You're the best.
I love that. 'feel at home in a period'. That is exactly it.
Thanks Catherine. It was such a pleasure to talk to an audience of history educators *and* authors of historical fiction. Our work converges in so many ways!
