HA Online course: Getting to grips with primary history

Description

Course leader: Stuart Tiffany

This course is for primary teachers who are inexperienced in teaching primary history or who did not receive much training in order to teach primary history. You will develop your understanding of effective history teaching. The course has a strong practical focus with approaches based on recent research and a regard to national initiatives including the Ofsted education inspection framework. Every delegate will come away with a strong knowledge of the primary history curriculum and a range of ideas that can be implemented easily to have an impact. You will develop confidence to be able to go straight back into the classroom and teach effective, engaging history lessons.

Learning outcomes

This course will enable you to:

• Know how to navigate the history curriculum effectively
• Plan units of work that are knowledge-rich and show progress
• Understand how to give a pertinent overview and how to teach aspects in depth
• Maximise the potential of your local environment
• Have a secure understanding of the skills and concepts of history
• Make purposeful cross-curricular links
• Be aware of a bank of locations to find the best resources