HA Webinar: Creative history teaching – practical ways to engage students, improve historical thinking and boost memory

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Presenter: Dale Banham 

This workshop will explore a range of practical, classroom trialed approaches to approaching GCSE and Key Stage 3 content in a more creative and engaging way. These range from ‘quick wins’ that can help students grasp a difficult concept to longer term approaches that improve written outcomes and help students develop strong substantive and disciplinary knowledge.

· Creative ways to introduce new topics – from initial stimulus material to carefully planned mysteries that improve disciplinary thinking

· The power of practical demonstrations - creative ways to teach difficult concepts and build strong substantive knowledge

· Creative approaches to improving written outcomes and source analysis – from loaded language games to walking essays

· Decision-making activities and stories that help students understand the dilemmas and choices faced by people in the past

· Creative approaches to helping students remember the key disciplinary and substantive knowledge curriculum takeaways

· The power of debates – how to encourage high quality and inclusive talk before writing

· Creative outcomes – building motivation for an enquiry by providing students with a real sense of audience and purpose