Tessa Blair

Hello! Introducing a brand new, free history teacher story exchange. This is for any history teacher who has written a historical story for use in the classroom, and wants to give others the chance to use it. We’ll host any submissions on our Google Drive. Happy submitting!

Delighted to be joining this team, and having the opportunity to educate about this important region! Schools in Oxford, if you fancy a rich, exciting and historically rigorous session for your students about the Middle East, please let me know.

Did you hear that our in person conference is now Sold Out in May! So if you want to get some of the best history talks and History CPD in the country then you will have to join us virtually - places still available to do that.history.org.uk/aboutus/catego…

*** NEW POST *** #8 This week, in history... I'm changing the way I 'model' writing Why I've stopped using 'I Do, We Do, You Do' and what I'm trying to do instead. curricularpasts.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/8-t… #edublogshare

@apf102 @nklrobinson @JJtodd1966 @KatharineBurn @HTENUK @histassoc I can share with Hackney/ TH ECTs abs mentors?

Hello! Together with @JJtodd1966 & @KatharineBurn I am conducting a survey of secondary school students' attitudes to school history. If you are a #historyteacher in #Bristol, #Sheffield, #Newcastle, #Leeds, #TowerHamlets, #Lewisham or #Hackney please DM me! @HTENUK @histassoc

Reading the independent investigation into Child Q’s treatment. It’s very hard reading. Findings are important for all schools to reflect on - particularly on behaviour policies and safeguarding. Below are some particularly powerful points in the report & reflections🧵👇 1/5

Just over 24 hours till the opening of @MentorEd2 - so exciting. Join us on the pinned post on here tomorrow!

Hello! I am conducting a survey of secondary school students' attitudes to school history. If you know any secondary school students in England who would be willing to pilot the online survey (10 mins) I would be very grateful 🙏

📢 NEW LEARNUS BLOG 👍 👏 "The true value of adaptive expertise is that it builds teacher confidence to deal with the unknown and the unexpected. It builds capacity to work with ambiguities." by @MargaretMulhol2 Pls read and share learnusblog.co.uk/articles.php?p…

🧑‍🏫 HISTORY TEACHER KLAXON 🧑‍🏫 The @histassoc is launching an online CPD programme for History ECTs, and we're running a FREE pilot from April 2022. If you're interested in joining the first cohort, please follow the link below and apply by 28/03! 👇 history.org.uk/secondary/cate…

This is an opportunity to develop action research tools to investigate & share your exp in relation to teaching these key themes. Your work will contribute to the wider elements of this exciting research project

*** NEW POST *** #5 This week, in history... I've been teaching my Year 7s things I don't want them to remember (forever) Using work of @BearWithOneEar & @Counsell_C to explore use of 'takeaways' to write a curric where much is (planned to be) forgotten curricularpasts.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/5-t…

🚨 NEW DATA on staff absences from @teachertapp Staff absences continue to rise – 27% of state school teachers now say 1 in 10 or more of their colleagues are off, compared to 20% in January. Covid is still causing a large amount of disruption in schools -

It is LGBT+ History month. We have curated some of the resources we have on this together for anyone wanting to understand more history.org.uk/historian/news… #LGBTQ

Gosh is it February already - we have so much to get through this year: secondary history.org.uk/secondary/cate… and primary history.org.uk/primary/catego… and with our branches history.org.uk/branches

Figures from our #UKPoverty2022 report warn of a harmful legacy, with half a million more children sinking into very deep poverty. Thread🧵👇 jrf.org.uk/report/uk-pove…

Join @CatherineMcCro7 and @IOEHistoryEdSIG for this workshop exploring history curriculum design. Online 27 Jan 4.30-6pm UK. Free and open to all. bit.ly/3AkiUZe @histassoc @BeBoldHistory @1972SHP @HTENUK @heirnet @EuroClio @Counsell_C @apf102 @nickdennis @freereed59

We have a brand new Teacher Fellowship for this spring on: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain. Applications open today and close 1st March history.org.uk/secondary/cate…

Great to see ⁦@FutureLearn⁩ now has 8 FREE online Black History courses available including ones from ⁦@CurriculumBlack⁩ ⁦@ColonialCountr1⁩, and my own #FLBlackTudors effort. What subjects would you like to see courses on? futurelearn.com/courses/collec…