Sarah Hartsmith

A must-read report! ⬇️

So excited to be involved in this! A such a good way to volunteer all that local history know-how to what is looking like it will become such a great hub for primary (and hopefully following that secondary!) schools

Online Seminar 2 yesterday afternoon for our fab @teachfirst.bsky.social Y1s.
🔵 how to approach the critical evaluation and conclusion of their PGCE assignment; 🟡oracy in the classroom; 🔵 6 subject knowledge masterclasses. Mine was on how we can give a global perspective to Medieval history.

Tuning into Adam Dighton’s session in the @histassoc.bsky.social Short Course series on Britain and WW2. Little bit of evening CPD on a favourite area of mine. #historyteacher

Lovely day!

Back in London yesterday with our Year 2s. An excellent day focusing on:
✅how to ensure the history we teach is relevant
✅what success looks like in PGDE assignment
✅how similarity & difference is key to dev nuanced & diverse picture of past
✅the value of using popular history as interpretations

Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

History community: please share as I’m not using X any more! Inspiring CPD tailored to experienced teachers who want to grapple with ‘new’ ideas (or challenge how new they really are), refresh pedagogy and expand networks. Brought to you by @histassoc.bsky.social, @andrewshtbc.bsky.social and me.

Coaching trainees, contributing to curriculum design and delivering disciplinary training has revitalised my love of history education. Alongside the work-life balance I’ve now found, I’m heading into this Christmas break with a smile on my face.

My first term out of the classroom has been a delight. Working in the amazing History team at Teach First has shown how rewarding it is to dedicate and use your experience to help others starting out on their teaching journey….

Looking forward to the #HTEN conference tomorrow morning!

Great to see an influx of educators onto here the past couple of weeks. Hopeful it will revive that community aspect that got lost on the other place.
Long time no see to lots of lovely faces!

In response to @petejackson.bsky.social sharing his latest Y7 assessment here's ours for the first 3 enquiries for Y7. Built upon @michaelfordham.bsky.social mixed constitution idea and MCQ quality and @sehartsmith.bsky.social examples from last year. Thoughts/critique welcome!
#historyteacher

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.

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When your love of local history means you spot some in the loos on a night out!

Send one this way!

Here are two of our new assessments, based on the work of Jonnie Grande, @sehartsmith.bsky.social and others. I'd love any comments or reflections!

Overview of structure in thread, along with Y7 example.

Year 9 have just been looking for patterns in the protest movements of 20th Century Britain:

Fantastic sessions at our Autumn Institute Hub Networking Day. Great to see trainees’ reflections on their training so far and how they came to us on TF. Primary and secondary, across all phases and subjects - brilliant day.

So excited to see them in the classroom after October half term.

Yep. As someone else posted, the book even gives schools the green light to do it. Definitely a link to retention (female teachers in 30s leaving profession)

When I went 0.8 I got 0.8 of TLR. I argued the point that I still did full role etc but didn’t get anywhere. However in previous school, I know there were part time staff with TLRs who did get full

Still time for #ITT #ITE #PGCE #SCITT #TeachFirst #historyteacher trainees to sign up to this @histassoc.bsky.social webinar.
#Mentor s, please do encourage your mentees to sign up before they go home today!

#TeacherEducation #historyteacher #HistoryEducation #UKEd #TeachingUK #EduSky

Such a great day with the team face to face today. What a great bunch of humans.

Don’t Lose Sight- Lawrence
I’m Not Okay- MCR
Four Kicks- Kings of Leon
Untouched- Veronicas
Burnin’ Up- Jonas Brothers
#FridayFive

Tomorrow marks a move for me out of the history classroom to help others succeed getting into the history classroom.

Very excited to be starting as a national Development Lead for History with Teach First !

Working alongside @catbatch.bsky.social et al.

Welcome to the Black Parade- My Chemical Romance
Black Sheep- Metric (Scott Pilgrim soundtrack)
Black Magic Woman- Fleetwood Mac
White Wedding- Billy Idol
Pink + White- Frank Ocean
#FridayFive

1 - childcare responsibilities vs the inflexibility of working in a school
2 - the attitudes of some students towards young female teachers
3 - women getting ‘capped’ at middle management
4 - lack of support still surrounding women’s health like periods, perimenopause etc
5 - being overlooked

Bayeux was another highlight on our #Normandy adventure.
Ticked the Bayeux Tapestry off the bucket list.
Also interesting to see how much architecture survived WW2 compared to neighbouring Caen due to how objectives in the Battle of Normandy played out.
#historyteacher

It seems promising over here so far!

In at the deep end? Swimming lessons for newly-appointed Subject Leaders In this blog, Catherine Priggs and Hugh Richards offer some ideas for newly-appointed Subject Leaders of History, organised month by month for the first year. Inevitably this isn’t an exhaustive list,...

@hughrichards.bsky.social and I wrote this blog post a couple of years back for new history subject leaders. Best of luck to those starting positions in September and hope this blog is of some use #historyeducation #historyteacher #educationleadership

onebighistorydepartment.com/2022/06/24/i...

Haha I presumed arrogance was regarding making sure you don’t get caught out in tides !