If you have an interesting ongoing or recently completed research or knowledge exchange project, then HTEN would be delighted to invite you to present: join/get in touch ASAP as the organisers are finalising plans this month. #HistoryEducation

Happy New Year! And what a better way 2 start 2026 than a competition 2 win copies of #DTC25 keynote speaker Shalina Patel's The History Lessons (www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/the...) 2 enter the draw you just need 2 buy a ticket for this years' conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Just read this recent story and want to bang this particular drum very hard. Quality and regional representation in #ITT recruitment is vital, as is retaining teachers to maintain the important ecosystem of professional support & learning that exists in our schools. #Mentors matter! #retention 1/2

Today my youngest spent 4hrs (😮) playing with old bathbomb packaging. It's been a popcorn stand, pick 'n' mix display & pharmacy. Bags were made from scrap, receipts prepared & family customers demanded. A good reminder before Christmas that fun can be found in unexpected & inexpensive places.

Today my @uonsoe.bsky.social #historyteacher s have handed in their 1st assignment. I'm super proud. They've been beginning teachers for 4 months. The amount they've learnt & practised has been 🤯 This first assignment is about them taking stock & considering their curricular values. Now they rest!

So delighted to have this arrive today. Such an important book for #historyteacher s wanting to do justice to teaching about Britain’s colonial past! Katie, Nicholas, @justice2history.bsky.social & @abdulmohamud.bsky.social do an amazing job of bringing research and pedagogy together.

My @uonsoe.bsky.social #ITT #historyteacher s visited their new Teaching Practice schools today ahead of starting properly after the holiday. Enjoying hearing their reflections on moving placement & having a pupil perspective from my eldest who met one in their lesson today!

@htenuk.bsky.social have been busy this morning, so please check you inboxes. And don't forget to make sure our inperson conference is in your calendar for March (tickets will be available in January).

NEW Curriculum PATHS Blog: Rethinking teaching the British Empire with Year 8. Emma McKenna explores how she has been wrestling with her British Empire lessons for Year 8 using @britishlibrary.bsky.social resources. #historyteacher curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2025/12/09/p...

Great to see the new re-launched Primary Education blog from my colleagues @uonsoe.bsky.social . A brilliant resource for #primaryteacher s and #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring colleagues.

📚Our latest free edition of Policy Insights is out now for all school staff 👇 bit.ly/PolicyInsigh... ✏️Featuring teaching blog posts from @apf102.bsky.social bsky.social @clairestoneman.bsky.social @victoriacrooks.bsky.social 🎙️Podcast of the month @reteachuk.bsky.social

When I blog for #ITT begining teachers & their #mentors, it is always with my own partnership in mind. I'm preparing to introduce my #PGCE students to semantic waves next week, & will draw on this as I do so... uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/25/s... #Edublog #TeacherMentoring

Have you got 49 seconds to spare? Check out our latest promo video for @1972shp.bsky.social's Developing Teachers' Conference, 31/01/26. Early Bird Tickets available from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... #skystorians #historyeducation #edusky www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s6...

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 Something a bit different from me today. Thinking about core #pedagogical practice of ELICITING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE through the lens of #historyteacher #HistoryEducation. And a reflection on how we keep #subjectspecific in #ITT #ITAP s uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/20/d...

Just finished my round of autumn school visits for my #ITT #PGCE #historyteacher s, and they have been briliant. Great to be around the region in partnership schools with colleagues and pupils, seeing how these begining teachers are growing into their professional role. A privilege.

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 Struggling with lesson PITCH? Jointly written with @apf102.bsky.social, this blog explores an approach we've used with #ITT beginning #teachers to examine the PITCH of their lessons through thinking about sequencing of knowledge. uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/25/s...

Now @helenfcarr.bsky.social brings us her research around teaching the Holocaust in an international context where this topic is seen as especially controversial. How do children gain knowledge of SCIs in spaces where the conversation is closed down/ removed from the curriculum? #HistoryEducation

Did you know HTEN has a website?

Our next HTEN Time To Talk is on Wednesday 21st January 3:30pm. Why don't you join us for a cuppa in our virtual staff room?

Our friends @histassoc.bsky.social have written a response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review. Take a look www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...

@justice2history.bsky.social have a new book coming out in collaboration with Katie Donnington and Nick Draper. It is now available for free download: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... #HistoryEducation #historyteacher #TeacherEducation

@htenuk.bsky.social conference today discussing the teaching of history especially linked to suffering and conflict in the present with principles from @victoriacrooks.bsky.social and @lauralondo1017.bsky.social First session led by Rob Kanter from MMU

In honour of our friend & colleague Helen Snelson, HTEN are delighted to announce a new Mentoring Award for outstanding school-based mentors who play a pivotal role in supporting beginning & early career history teachers at secondary/ primary level. Contact [email protected] for nomination info.

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 Struggling with lesson PITCH? Jointly written with @apf102.bsky.social, this blog explores an approach we've used with #ITT beginning #teachers to examine the PITCH of their lessons through thinking about sequencing of knowledge. uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/25/s...

The Autumn HTEN conference takes place this Thursday. Looking forward to seeing our members as we explore this important aspect of our work. Members have just received an email with log in details. Please check your inboxes. If you're not yet a member - please DM for info.

The department has also produced wonderful graduates who have progressed into #PGCE & are now excellent history and politics teachers in our region and across the nation. Academics also contribute to the ongoing professional learning of serving teachers. Closure will impact an education ecosystem.

What do we all need on a Friday night? An opportunity to think about how we elicit prior knowledge in the classroom, of course! #UKTeaching #UKEd #Edublog #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 Something a bit different from me today. Thinking about core #pedagogical practice of ELICITING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE through the lens of #historyteacher #HistoryEducation. And a reflection on how we keep #subjectspecific in #ITT #ITAP s uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/20/d...

My day began with a tissue exploding in the washing machine. It didn't get better. Tonight I'm Friday tired.

Every week the #ITT #historyteacher s @uonsoe.bsky.social undertake a reflective activity posted on our cohort message board. Today their honesty & humility around their success & challenges, moments of realisation, & their developing understanding of what being a teacher means is incredible. 🤩

Enjoyed presenting today at #UCET with @lauralondo1017.bsky.social on our paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... And having the opportunity to meet up with National #HistoryEducation colleagues outside of our usual conference meeting schedule. #historyteacher #TeacherEducation #ITT

Another brilliant school visit today to see one of my #ITT #historyteacher s in action. In depth conversations about connection between curricular intent & pedagogical choices in practice were a joy. And year 10 were exemplary during the 2 minutes silence.

@htenuk.bsky.social are pleased to be holding a half day online conference on 27th November addressing the important issue of how #TeacherEducation can prepare #teachers to address sensitive and controversial issues in these times when it might feel safer for #schools to avoid these topics.

Today, for the 1st time in 13 cohorts of beginning teachers, I got to be the tutor visiting the school in our partnership where Isaac Newton was educated 🤯 I had a lovely time. Brilliant lesson from an #ITT #historyteacher, great post lesson conversation & warm welcome from the department & boys.

And if you're wondering why this might matter, well we want our #ITT beginning #teacher s to view teaching as a professional endeavour - to understand the 'WHY' in addition to the 'WHAT' and 'HOW TO'. uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/10/01/g...

Today @uonsoe.bsky.social the #ITT #historyteacher s were thinking about how ed research, learning theories & cog sci influence policy & practice & how knowledge of this helps us to make better choices to structure historical thinking & support pupils to engage in extended reading. #CakeyFriday

🚨BIG day on the BLOG🚨 MY 100th POST‼️ Never thought I'd get to 10, let alone 100.😮 A new blog for #ITT #ECT #mentors #coaches on setting meaningful targets for their #mentees. Particularly helpful for #ITAP follow-up! uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/03/s... #TeacherEducation

🚨BIG day on the BLOG🚨 MY 100th POST‼️ Never thought I'd get to 10, let alone 100.😮 A new blog for #ITT #ECT #mentors #coaches on setting meaningful targets for their #mentees. Particularly helpful for #ITAP follow-up! uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/03/s... #TeacherEducation

Total honour to attend the wedding of a brilliant @uonsoe.bsky.social #historyteacher #alum & #mentor today. She looked radiant at a beautiful, joyous occasion. I was particularly impressed the celebrant had been briefed to give a potted history of the venue from 1380s onwards before the vows! 🥰

Delighted to have a paper with @lauralondo1017.bsky.social & Helen Snelson published in @pdiejournal.bsky.social. Especially pleased to bring Helen's work to fruition & grateful to @uoyeducation.bsky.social @ueaeducation.bsky.social @uonsoe.bsky.social #historyteacher #mentors for their collboration

Having a super week @uonsoe.bsky.social with #ITT #historyteacher s exploring each second order concept in turn and undertaking an #ITAP on questioning to promote historical thinking. Also lovely to celebrate a birthday today. #CakeyThursday uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2021/11/13/f...

Thrilled to say I'm a judge for the first ever Inspiring History Teaching Awards, in association with Historic Royal Palaces. Do you know a great history teacher in the UK who deserves to go down in history? Nominate them here bit.ly/42yhGZP

'He fought in the Napoleonic wars and is one of only nine Black soldiers known to have received the Waterloo Medal, the first British medal awarded to soldiers regardless of their rank. Yet the story of Pte Thomas James has been overlooked for centuries.'

Today I introduced my #ITT #historyteacher s to Thomas Attwood (the Chartist) in puppet form. Thomas has lived in my office since 2004 when a Yr13 made him for an A Level lesson I taught. And, as I told my students this, thus came the unforgettable words: "Wow, Vic. He's as old as us!" 😱

A conversation with some colleagues this morning has reminded me of this (amongst other things!): uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2024/06/11/e...

I've managed to get an infection in my thumb from a butternut squash. So that's how my weekend is going.

Working with an #ITT beginning teacher who needs some support as they develop their professional role in school?

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 A few weeks into Teaching Practice placement some #ITT beginning teachers need support around developing their professional communication and relationships. This analogy may help. #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring #EduBlogUK uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/10/16/s...