Leading History to Outstanding
•Lead your history department to Ofsted’s Outstanding
•Understand the full impact of EBacc; turn this initiative to the advantage of your department
•Increase the uptake of students taking history to GCSE and beyond
Richard McFahn
Richard spent 13 years as a History Teacher, Subject and Senior Leader and Advanced Skills Teacher in Hampshire. In that time he turned around a failing history department into one which was graded as ‘excellent’ by Ofsted in 2004 and ‘outstanding’ in a subject specific survey in 2007 where all of his observed
lessons were rated as a 1.
The future of history education
Understand the full implications of EBacc for history
Curriculum changes
Make history a flagship subject
Timetable models
The key steps to outstanding
Benchmarking current practice against best practice
Embed outstanding history teaching across your department
Outstanding lessons and schemes of work
Improving teacher performance
Data, assessment and reporting for outstanding history
How to achieve outstanding progress for all pupils
Marking and assessment made easy
New reporting and monitoring ideas
The wow factors
Rigour and creativity
Pupil ownership of the history curriculum
5 outstanding lesson ideas
Top tips to inspire young historians
This course is developed in partnership with The Historical Association: The voice for history
The Historical Association (HA) is an independent charity that has been supporting the study, teaching and enjoyment of history since 1906. With more than 6,000 members, the HA is the major organisation involved in decision-making regarding the teaching and learning of history at a national level and advises on curriculum issues.
The HA publish a range of material to support teachers in primary, secondary education, academics and researchers and all those who love history. All our past publications and articles are available online and we have developed a wide range of online resources.
INSET
Leading History to Outstanding, along with all our courses, can be arranged for in-school training (INSET).
For each course we recommend trainer(s), but when arranging your INSET day, you can choose. For more information, contact our INSET department.
Richard McFahn
Richard spent 13 years as a History Teacher, Subject and Senior Leader and Advanced Skills Teacher in Hampshire. In that time he turned around a failing history department into one which was graded as ‘excellent’ by Ofsted in 2004 and ‘outstanding’ in a subject specific survey in 2007 where all of his observed
lessons were rated as a 1.
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