Spent an inspiring and amazing day at #TLLeeds18 yesterday, run by the wonderful and amazing @agwilliams9. It was such an interesting and thought-provoking day at which I met some challenging and provoking speakers, and gave a talk on the mistakes
Books I read about the Restoration of Charles II.
Helen on Twitter asked me today if I had any recommended reading for someone new to the Restoration period. It seems like quite a long time since I wrote the book for Hodder, but as many teachers will be
Whitechapel 1870-1900
@davidmullen141@Alec_Fisher@histassoc my Whitechapel 1870-1900 shelf. Also articles by Shpayer-Makov. pic.twitter.com/Z0yXgvKidU — ed_podesta (@ed_podesta) May 7, 2016 The other day I was asked on Twitter about the books that I read whilst writing the Whitechapel 1870-1900 section of this book. Books
Historic Environment Studies – AQA in more depth
Last week I took an overview of all the environment studies. Though they’re (mostly) worth around 10% of the GCSE I wonder if they’ll be giving many HODs and teachers something to worry about as they start to think about
H.A. Northern History Forum: Global Learning
Wednesday’s HA event at Leeds Trinity had a stall manned by Pearson which set out their ‘Global Learning Programme‘. At the start of the keynote we were told of a CPD event being run by the university (and paid for
Historic Environment Studies at GCSE
There are big changes coming at KS4. Others have written excellent posts summarising the new specifications and the differences between them. On reflection there’s something for everyone in most specs – we will each find some aspects that we seem to
A Cup of Tea from the History Resource Cupboard #28daysofwriting
So, yesterday was the end of a long week (even for a part timer like me), and I was stuck for something to do with my year 9 class. It was the end of the half term, they’d just done
Historial Fiction: Dave Martin’s Blog
Just a quick post to publicise Dave Martin’s excellent blog, which I was reminded of today after I promised a parent that I would recommend some historical fiction for their son’s class. The site is really helpful. Not only does
GCSE Reform – what will the boards offer?
I’ve been reading @mfordhamhistory‘s blog post on the new GCSE content requirements – you can find his thoughts here. I think, overall, I’m a little more positive than he is about the changes. Like Michael, I’ve taught Modern World GCSE,
What is data for? Whose data is it, anyway?
If you’re a history teacher and especially if you’re a head of department then you really should be thinking about how you report to parents and to the school about the progress of your students. If you’re thinking about that,