Monthly Archives: July 2014

Christine is speaking about knowledge. We don’t spend a lot of time talking about it which gives us bad PR as a profession. We should attend to it much more explicitly and not be frightened of it. The reaction from … Continue reading →

Neil and Simon are explaining the Harkness idea of collaborative learning. It involves a bit of the flipped learning idea, where students read and complete tasks before the lesson and then discuss it in class, tackling tasks set by the … Continue reading →

Sally is talking about rigorous historical thinking in the mixed ability classroom. We start by thinking about the challenges and the joys of mixed ability. Sally says she spent so much time doing different activities and differentiated sheets that she … Continue reading →

Sadly, without Alec Fisher. Richard is going to be talking about teaching outstanding history. Make your lessons a flipping PEACH: feedback, prior knowledge, engagement, access, challenge, higher order thinking. We look at the advice for Ofsted inspectors when they are … Continue reading →

This plenary, with Denis Shemilt and Frances Blow, links in with the workshop I went to this afternoon. Frances begins by defining big history. The study of human kind through time and space from the first modern humans to the … Continue reading →

Dan and Laura are running a workshop on “Big Picture, Small Details” using their study of the slave trade as an example. They aimed to raise historical consciousness, connecting past, present and future and recognising their place in time. They … Continue reading →

SHP number 26 opens with glorious weather, as it always seems to. The first session is Don Cumming, talking on “Our island story: really?!” Don says that some of huge changes make him feel a bit like Statler and Waldorf … Continue reading →