New Resource: Spin Powerpoints
Lesley Ann McDermott shared a novel revision strategy in the TeachMeet session at the 2012 SHP Conference ...
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SHP-BL 2012: Teaching with a purpose
History needs beauty. History needs people. And history teaching needs to sow acorns like the ones that Michael Riley and Jamie Byrom planted in the opening plenary ...
Read More »New Guidance: Active Learning at A Level
At SHP 12, Dale Banham and Russell Hall described their action research project in Ipswich which aimed to promote curiosity, intrinsic motivation and a greater degree of independence amongst their A Level students ...
Read More »New Guidance: Students as Movie Makers
You may have missed Richard Kennett's resource that was added onto the site in July. Describing his workshop at SHP12, 'Students As Movie Makers, Picturing the past - helping students to communicate using visual media' he writes ...
Read More »New Guidance: Starters and Plenaries
Jamie Byrom describes the ideas behind his workshop at SHP12 and presents the guidance and resources in full ...
Read More »At last! Decent enquiry based A level books
In his blog on The History Resource Cupboard, Richard McFahn reviews the two latest SHP publications for A Level …
Read More »SHP Autumn Day Conf: Booking Open
Booking is now open for SHP's autumn day conference 'Changing School History' at The British Museum on 24th Nov 2012. Keynote presenters and workshop leaders include Jamie Byrom, Michael Riley, Chris Culpin, Dale Banham, Dan Lyndon & Sarah Longair, Christine Counsell and ...
Read More »SHP12: Calling all history teachers
Lesley Ann McDermott provides a delegate’s view of SHP12 and concludes with the warning to all teachers that the SHP conference may seriously improve your teaching!
Read More »SHP12: Proud to be a history teacher
The title of this blog-of-blogs about the SHP Conference 2012 is shamelessly ripped from Neil Bates and Richard McFahn. But it does sum up the energy, enthusiasm and commitment of all the history teachers who met up in Leeds this year ...
Read More »SHP Conf 12: Thank you all for Saturday night
Many thanks to everyone who contributed so brilliantly to Saturday evening’s plenary session at SHP Conference 2012. And if anyone wants to follow up some of the activities see ...
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