Historical Association webinar series: Making history accessible Presenters: Catherine Priggs and Dale Banham In this session, participants will review their action research projects established during the first webinar. Coaching conversations will encourage reflection, allowing participants to share their actions and insights. Additionally, they will begin developing a strategic plan to outline next steps for supporting students with SEND in accessing the history curriculum. 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 history accessible Presenters: Dale Banham This webinar will explore a range of proven strategies for helping students remember more at GCSE. This includes: How to avoid cognitive overload by maintaining an explicit focus on key takeaways How to use recent research from cognitive science and the 2024 International Revision Census to make those key takeaways stick How to apply the theory of ‘desirable difficulties’ to structuring schemes of work that regularly revisit previous learning How to help students visualise what is expected of them in the exam so that they remember exam technique tips 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: Coherence at Key Stage 4 Presenters: Cat Priggs This session will consider how a curriculum can be conceptually coherent. It will explore the manifestations of interplay between substantive and disciplinary knowledge across multiple units, providing useful guidance ahead of planning for delivery of new specifications. To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/q9rG5Hiynr Springfield Interchange (Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
Historical Association webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4 Presenters: Cat Priggs This session will open with an overview of coherence and provide a rationale for this series webinars. It will explore why sequencing is so important at Key Stage 4, and how Key Stage 3 can be used to develop a coherent Key Stage 4, which will be vital to consider ahead of choosing a new GCSE specification. It will also consider how to plan for pupils’ encounters with knowledge across Key Stage 4. To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/q9rG5Hiynr Springfield Interchange (Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
Historical Association webinar series: Making history accessible Presenters: Gemma Hargraves and Kate Wright This session will offer practical strategies teachers can use to support and challenge neurodivergent students at GCSE. Covering the importance of scaffolding and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, Kate Wright will offer a SENDCo’s perspective on how best to support GCSE historians. From Frayer models and graphic organisers to explicitly teaching key concepts and vocabulary, the session will outline how to achieve clarity in lessons, resources and homework. 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: Building different types of historical knowledge Presenters: Claire Holliss In this sixth and final session, Jacob and Mike will explain how history teachers can teach This first session will focus on building students’ knowledge of the particular periods they are studying. It will also consider the different methods teachers have used to help their students to apply their knowledge to different contexts. It will include a discussion of how this might be assessed throughout the course and the role that curriculum planning can play in this process. To use your corporate webinar offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/9JZCQ0RUkJ
Historical Association webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4 Presenters: Cat Priggs This session focuses on one way of achieving curricular coherence: fostering big pictures of the past. The work of multiple practitioners will be drawn upon to exemplify different ways in which this can be done, including how to use of narrative to foster coherent big pictures. The content from this session will support curriculum design for new specifications. To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/q9rG5Hiynr Springfield Interchange (Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
Historical Association webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4 Presenters: Cat Priggs 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. To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/q9rG5Hiynr Springfield Interchange (Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
Historical Association webinar series: Making history accessible Presenters: Gemma Hargraves and Sally Lonsdale From a special school perspective, Sally Lonsdale will explore how history is encountered at her school. With secondary students working at Key Stage 1 age related expectations, history is seen as an ‘enriching subject’ with a strong focus on literacy and vocabulary. The session will explore how students with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities and those with EHCP outcomes are supported and show how history teaching can be effective and joyful when directed by student experience and interests and focusing on skills rather than specific knowledge. 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: Building different types of historical knowledge Presenters: Claire Holliss This second session will consider how teachers have helped their students to develop coherent explanations of historical processes and to form judgments in response to historical questions. The session will then engage with the rich tradition of practitioner research on students’ writing at A-level, particularly focusing on how teachers have helped students engage with historical writing in order to gain a more sophisticated understanding of the discipline and to strengthen their written work. To use your corporate webinar offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/9JZCQ0RUkJ