On Thursday 27 June, the Institute of Childhood and Education at Leeds Trinity University is proud to present its 2019 Conference – ‘Career Illuminations’. A revitalising day to gather invigorating ideas from experienced practitioners, grow ideas about investment in career
Books you should read?
I was alerted to this list by this tweet. Looking for summer reading? Every teacher should have read Plato, Rousseau and Dewey as a minimum. https://t.co/eEgAoFjxLw — Michael Fordham (@mfordhamhistory) July 17, 2015 I’m ashamed to say that I’ve not
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
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
#28daysofwriting Why am I still blogging?
What’s the point of blogging? Since 2006 when I started this version of the website, I’ve gone through long periods of not updating my blog properly, usually when time is in short supply, or when things are difficult at home
Ian Dawson is on Twitter.
Ian Dawson is on twitter, and is also promising a re-vamp of his website. If you’re a history teacher, you’ll want to follow him! Twitter a 10th birthday present for website and 3×21 present for me. Site to be refreshed,
Teaching a new topic – some thinking before we start
I’m teaching a course for an exam board that is new to me, with some new topics next year. As I was thinking about this, I realised that this was going to happen again next year to all history teachers, when
New H.A. Primary Schemes of Work
Keen to support primary colleagues, I thought I’d pass on this link to new schemes of work from the Historical Association: At the HA we understand the difficult task that primary schools are facing getting ready for curriculum change this
SHP2014
This is a very long blog post. Executive summary: I had a great time, learned a lot and I can’t wait to get stuck into my new job! Just after returning from the 2014 SHP conference I tweeted, a little