In previous blog posts I’ve written about the way that HE ITE tutors are caught between practice and theory – and at home in neither, and about the central problems of initial teacher education that interact with the marginal status
What’s the point of me (2) – what’s my position in HE?
I’m using this series of posts as a way of thinking through the development of my professional identity and position. In my last post I talked about moving from teaching to HE. In this post I’ll consider this a little
What’s the point of me, a HE lecturer in Inital Teacher Training?
Moving from school to university as an ITE tutor is an important personal and professional change. Apart from the weirdness of no-one giving a monkeys about you telling them about what time you go home, or what you’re doing from
Northern History Forum
Last night I attended the Northern History forum at Leeds Trinity University, ran a workshop entitled ‘Playing Games in History’ and met some great teachers, new and experienced. Ben Walsh gave the opening address, and reminded us of the benefit
#28days of Writing – Institutions and Strength.
Hmm, bit worried that I’m going to resort to this so early in my #28daysofwriting, but this evening I’ve been looking back at things that I started to write and then, for some reason, didn’t. Last summer I went to
SHP Conference at the British Library
A technical glitch means the SHP website is offline. They really wanted to tell the world about a conference they’re holding at the British Library on the 30th of November. I heard great things about the last one – I’m
Interpretations
Like many history teachers over the last decade or so, my focus has shifted away from ‘Can we trust it?’ (sometimes it is obvious that we cannot) to ‘Why is this image the way it is?’ or ‘Why was it
ICT for learning about history
Using ICT for Learning on Prezi This post is for a talk I’m doing tomorrow for the PGCE History students at University of Reading. We’re going to be looking at a number of tools that you might use for homework,
ICT with the interns at OUDE
This session on homework and ICT is going to start us thinking about how we can get around restrictions on the use of ICT in schools (mainly a shortage of available computer suites for history classes) and still enable our
More differentiation – or access and challenge for all.
I’ve just published a second page about differentiation, or ways to enable all students to access the learning in your classroom, whilst offering support and challenge at the same time. I’ll follow it with a third, a long (and probably