Conference Programme

Download the Draft Conference Flier (Rev. Jan), including an outline programme  [ here ].

Plenaries At A Glance

The list of plenaries is:

• Donald Cumming, Our island story and all that

• Frances Blow, Dan Nuttall, Rick Rogers and Dennis Shemilt, Size Matters...even in history!

• Christine Counsell, On being guardians of an 's': who will polish and protect the curriculum jewel of interpretation(s) plural?

• Ian Dawson, Taking tea with the Macoronis – a quizzical tour around the eighteenth century

• Helen Snelson, Steven Stegers and Bob Stradling, Launch of the Historiana First World War module

Workshops At A Glance

• What makes history lessons outstanding?

• Building historical knowledge with limited curriculum time

• Extending pupils’ chronological knowledge before 1066

• Teaching the Holocaust

• How to make your A level students more resilient and independent

• Using a local building as a focus for change over time

• Helping students to understand the Cold War

• Exploring big overviews through local depth

• Helping students to construct powerful causal arguments

• Planning for the new National Curriculum at Key Stage 3

• ‘Gamification’ in the history classroom

• Using big spaces to teach historical concepts

• Extra-curricular history for social and moral understanding

• Rigorous thinking for all in the mixed ability classroom

• Teaching the First World War through a local study

• Engaging students with American Civil Rights

• Resources and approaches for teaching about ‘ordinary people’ in history

• Teaching the First World War through the National Archives

• Building enquiries around songs

• Interrogating inevitability: the Holocaust and other genocides

• Using collaborative learning to develop higher order thinking

• Story as a catalyst for rigorous history lessons

• Engaging Year 7 with the Peasants’ Revolt

• Learning the language of argument

• Supporting weak writers at Key Stage 3

• Teaching a sense of period

• Making challenging enquiries accessible and inclusive

• Using Shakespeare to teach about interpretations of history