Seeing an interesting/partially worrying trend with Year 9 taking History as an options subject this year. Interested to see if this is reflected nationally?

En route down south for #Soane25 excited is an understatement

We’re on the writing lesson of our 17th century enquiry ‘How much did Samuel Pepys’ world really change?’ Today we were crafting concluding sentences and I asked for a volunteer to add an appositive after Pepys name. A student puts their hand up: ‘What about “Samuel Pepys, a historians dream”’😂

So I guess it’s back to ‘making lessons more fun’ tomorrow. He’s my ins and outs for 2025:

Tickets booked! Absolutely cannot wait for this, what a line up. #Soane25 > Glasto

@mjburnage.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Soane25 is live! Come and join us on Saturday 8th February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers. Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!) Don’t miss it! www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...

Be really interesting for anyone planning to tweaking enquiries on empire

Alex Ford@apf102.bsky.social · 2y ago

Finally, we have just launched our PATHfinders project to connect teachers with the latest sources and research. This time we are collaborating with @britishlibrary.bsky.social to refresh your teaching of Britain and India 1600-1947 curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2024/11/19/p... /6

I’ve just set my alarm for 4:30 tomorrow so I can get stuff done that’s crucial for the day. Why is this term like this every year 😂😮‍💨🥹🙃

Thank god Novembers done 🥹😮‍💨

Loving this, it’s reading like a page turny novel

Waking up to lots of new followers on here this morning! Hello! I’m Rosie, looking to connect on all things history teaching. I’m not that organised to post stuff all the time but always up for chatting/swapping resources #historyteachersUK

2. On the subject of evidence and interpretations, I think @michaelfordham.bsky.social's points about the potential for set texts in history are still really persuasive. clioetcetera.com/2015/06/20/w...

Why don’t we have set texts in history?

Short extracts of sources or interpretations have been a feature of history exams for decades, and, I would argue, they have never been done well. For those unfamiliar with how this works, in most …

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So, are we officially all communicating on Bluesky now? Is X/Twitter in the bin?

Can you help me share some great news? The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended! We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role. 1/

You don’t have to ask me twice…

Will Goodfellow@willgoodfellow82.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join Hodder Education on Monday 9 December at 4pm (BST) for a FREE webinar with @counsellc.bsky.social and @paulalobo.bsky.social on how to make sources sing. Register here: ow.ly/A01g50U5cVb If you can't make it on the day, register for a place and Hodder will send you a recording of the webinar.

Calling all teachers of AQA history GCSE 📣 How do you approach the (dreaded) source utility Q in the Conflict and Tension paper… Keen to gather some thoughts/ideas/areas of success

One thing I love about September, I just being in the classroom teaching bloody good lessons! I just want to bottle up the expectant energy & initial enthusiasm that a new term brings!

Saw @edurbin.bsky.social post about this and couldn’t agree more. GCSE source Q’s distort students understanding of the discipline and puts them off what is possibly the most fascinating part of our subject! Come on Labour 👀

Michael Fordham@michaelfordham.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s time to sort out - finally - rubbish source questions in GCSE (and to an extent A Level) History exams. Asking generic questions of a couple of sentences of text with almost no contextual detail is not historical and we should have stopped this years ago. clioetcetera.com/2015/07/22/w...

Mourning the loss of the long lie ins, but at least i get to hear ‘FIRE HER UP, LETS GO!’ in the morning. IYKYK

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Oh hey @edusky.bsky.social it seems that this is where all the cool kids are? I’m Rosie, @misscs_teach on the other place that shall not be named! Looking to link with other educators, history fans and get back to sharing all good stuff about education/history teaching ✨🤞🏼