Teacher of History. Acting assistant head of History. Passionate about history, teaching & learning, teaching 'histories', running and rugby.
Joined March 2018
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Preparing carefully beforehand is the best way to be ready to improvise successfully during a lesson. When you know your lesson well, your working memory is free to perceive what students are doing & thinking. This allows you to better decide how to make adaptations & changes.
What a great idea!
I have created a bite-sized plenary/HW interpretations tasks for GCSE called 'Scholarship Postcards'. I've been inspired by @historychappy's scholarship talk at @TMHistoryIcons & @ArthurJChapman on indentifying facts to reveal the argument. #historyteacher #edutwitter
Another brilliant webinar on West African History. Loads of new material on Benin to look at and use in the classroom. Huge thanks to @nickdennis @TrevorGetz4 and Toby Green for their time and expertise. #historyteacher
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Exciting 🥳to see this new series go live! 🚨Thanks to @ALTAnimation. History KS3: Explain This... - BBC Teach @HughJRichards for steering group big push to have it ready for lockdown use. Hope it’s of use with tricky concepts 🤗 bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-…
This looks great, looking forward to engaging with some high quality CPD next week
You can see our full programme here for more details on who is speaking and when. This is also the place to find links to any talks you may have missed or want to watch again bit.ly/3c9qOao
Excellent webinar on teaching pre 1600 African history. Loads of ideas to process and resources to explore. Looking forward to sharing them with my students. Huge thanks to @nickdennis, @TrevorGetz4 and Dr Toby Green
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Get the evening of 17.4.20 pinned in your calendars, we’re hosting a virtual quiz! Details will come out soon about how to take part. In the mean time, her reading up on your general knowledge and get thinking about quiz team names! RT ✌🏻
That's tomorrow afternoon sorted
Absolutely delighted to announce details of our digital history festival - HISTFEST: LOCKDOWN.
Events will begin at 1pm on our YouTube channel. Speakers include Sir Michael Palin, Hallie Rubenhold, Sunny Singh, Greg Jenner and many more. histfest.org/events/
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During the present crisis we would like to offer you COMPLETELY FREE use of historyhomework.com for the next three months.
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Simply email me at [email protected] and I’ll help you get set up. Please retweet to help others
Year 10 feedback today. Show good examples on visualiser, talk through example plans, students improve the part of the answer I have highlighted #feedbacknotmarking #historyteacher
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Finally uploaded this blank Retrieval Roulette template that allows you to generate a printable sheet with 30 random questions and blank space for students to write their answers. Cover work = sorted. Please share. achemicalorthodoxy.wordpress…
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Reading list with reviews! - NEW resource for busy history teachers from Historical Association #OBHD onebighistorydepartment.com/…
This is a really useful thread. I make sure students can access blank copies of the revision sheets we fill in in class so they can do a similar process.
Short thread on history revision for pupils who don't know where to start. What I advise:
1. Get the revision guide for your weakest topic. (At @nuneatonacademy we buy these in all subjects for all pupils.)
2. Get an exercise book or index cards.
Used these with y10 today. Apparently dual coding is more fun when I have drawn the image as it could be anything!
Have been slowly using less PowerPoint in lessons so thought I'd try using pen and paper to make my resources. #historyteacher
Had a go at a destroy a source lesson today after seeing the idea on here. Y8 engaged really well with. One student even made links to symbols from Greek mythology. Others not there yet but still a good way to end the Empire topic and bring together knowledge #historyteacher
Have been slowly using less PowerPoint in lessons so thought I'd try using pen and paper to make my resources. #historyteacher
Great to hear the resources I helped develop are being used and going down well with students!
Today, a @UniRdgsecondary PGCE T talked me through how she used the #blacktudors resources from the @1972SHP shared drive to plan a seq of leasons...
"And when I revealed they were *black*, every child was GOB-SMACKED. It was just soooo wonderful!"🍾👊
schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/…
Chris Lewis retweeted
Flash cards don’t need to be flashy! Another infographic from @Inner_Drive There’s a section in my book about flash cards I think they’re a great revision strategy 👍🏻 – at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
