341 History courses in Ledbury delivered Live Online

Historical Association webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Presenters: Gemma Hargraves  This session explores some of the hidden barriers faced by neurodivergent pupils in the history classroom, including anxiety and low self-confidence. It offers practical strategies to create an inclusive and supportive environment that enables all learners to engage meaningfully with historical learning. Key topics: • Recognising common anxiety triggers in history education • Building learner confidence through inclusive pedagogical approaches • Understanding and responding to the needs of neurodivergent pupils in GCSE history To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/bdNUSwLNrL Image: A Squire "Old English" padlock on a gate latch in Devon (Image: Partonez/Wikimedia Commons)

Historical Association webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Presenters: Catherine Priggs   This session explores the essential literacy skills required to engage effectively with history at Key Stage 4. Participants will examine the unique demands of historical reading and writing and learn strategies to scaffold tasks that develop pupils’ ability to analyse sources, construct arguments, and communicate historical ideas clearly. Key topics: • Understanding the literacy challenges specific to historical texts and tasks • Strategies to enhance comprehension of complex historical sources and narratives • Scaffolding writing skills to support the construction of clear and persuasive historical arguments To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/bdNUSwLNrL Image: A Squire "Old English" padlock on a gate latch in Devon (Image: Partonez/Wikimedia Commons)

Historical Association webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Presenters: Dale Banham   "This session explores how to help SEND learners retain historical knowledge by applying research-informed strategies that reduce cognitive overload and support long-term memory formation within the context of history teaching. Key topics: • Applying cognitive load theory to history-specific content and tasks • Using dual coding, retrieval practice, and spaced learning frameworks to support retention • Embedding effective homework, revision routines and explicit instruction to strengthen pupils’ historical schema " To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/bdNUSwLNrL Image: A Squire "Old English" padlock on a gate latch in Devon (Image: Partonez/Wikimedia Commons)

Historical Association webinar series: History and literacy: better together Presenter: Andrew Wrenn This practical webinar will explore the different ways stories and storytelling can be used in primary history: as an evocative way of conveying substantive knowledge for retrieval, and as a stimulus to hook pupils’ initial interest and curiosity. It will also show how pupils can be helped to test the reliability of stories as historical interpretations, by comparing them with the original evidence on which they are based. To use your corporate recording offer for this webinar please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/HYhgpvBBuG

This course has now started but you can still sign up to gain live access to our future sessions. Recordings will be made available at a later date exclusively for HA members. Join us this summer to celebrate 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen with this brand new webinar series from the Historical Association. We will explore the work and influence of the famous novelist to illuminate our understanding of the Georgian era and the society that Austen brought to life. Sessions include: 24 June - Domestic economies: families, home and work in the age of Jane Austen | Dr Sara Pennell 1 July - A Q and A with one of the world's leading experts on Jane Austen, Professor John Mullan 14 July - 'I am … MAD': The life in Jane Austen’s Letters | Dr Freya Johnston 22 July - The social spread of the handshake in the age of Jane Austen | Professor Penelope Corfield All sessions take place from 5-6.30pm and will be hosted online via Zoom. Once you have signed up your details will be registered for all sessions and you will receive joining instructions directly from Zoom. If you have any questions feel free to contact us at shortcourses@history.org.uk. On the day of the session joining links will be sent out up until 1pm on the day of the session. All images public domain, central image of Jane Austen modified by Wikimedia user Amano1.

Historical Association webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits; implications for primary history Presenter: Dan Hartley This session will look at ways teachers can be supported to build their confidence, expertise and subject knowledge in primary history. It will also explore how subject leaders can develop their own expertise in leading history, including ideas for extending their professional development beyond their own school.   To use your corporate webinar offer for this webinar please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/qG8gK0CU8X

Historical Association webinar series: Making history accessible Presenters: Cat Priggs This webinar will provide an overview of recent key developments in SEND, including statutory guidance and regulations from Ofsted’s latest Education Inspection Framework and the SEND improvement plan. Drawing on SEND toolkits, we will reflect on how to embed inclusive practice. This will be explored in the context of the history classroom as we draw upon the Historical Association’s Secondary Committee ‘Making History Accessible’ resources to consider how to develop and support SEND students’ historical learning. At the end of this session, participants will be introduced to an optional small-scale action research project. This project will prompt reflection on a specific aspect of participants’ practice, which will be explored and reviewed through the webinar series. Image: A Squire "Old English" padlock on a gate latch in Devon (Image: Partonez/Wikimedia Commons)

Historical Association webinar series: History and literacy: better together Presenter: Andrew Wrenn This practical webinar will show how the writing and insights of real historians can be used across medium-term plans in primary history. It will give examples of how historians' ideas can be simplified for presentation in different ways, how their methods can be echoed for pupils in tasking, and how pupils can explore the original evidence historians use to support their conclusions - including how pupils can test the validity of these conclusions as historical interpretations. To use your corporate recording offer for this webinar please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/HYhgpvBBuG

Historical Association webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits; implications for primary history Presenter: Dan Hartley This session will give an overview of the main areas of the school inspection toolkit, and how history could contribute to ensuring the school receives a positive outcome. The session will explore the main areas of the toolkit, how grades are given, and the potential role history subject leaders have in contributing to the overall evidence of the school report card.   To use your corporate webinar offer for this webinar please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/qG8gK0CU8X

Historical Association webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits; implications for primary history Presenter: Dan Hartley This session will focus on ways in which teachers can ensure pupils achieve and progress well in primary history, so they are prepared for the next stage of their education. This will also include ways to assess pupil progress to enable all groups of pupils to achieve strongly in history.   To use your corporate webinar offer for this webinar please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/qG8gK0CU8X