This section of the site offers advice on a whole host of teaching issues including how to teach trickier concepts well, how to use assessment to help improve learning and what Ofsted are looking for when they come and visit.

• What is history?
• What are the main history skills?
• Teaching historical interpretations
• Teaching historical significance
• How to make history meaningful
• Questioning
• What is good assessment practice at Key Stage 3
• Successful GCSE History teaching strategies
• What students think about GCSE teaching and what are the implications for you?
• Using blogs to extend the history classroom
• Teaching local history
• How to survive a subject specific ofsted inspection…Neil wrote about his recent experience
• Personal reflections of a history ofsted inspection…Rich reflected on his experience from a few years ago
• Ofsted best practice case study: making the most of local history
• Ofsted best practice case study: meaningful history for all
• Ofsted best practice case study: outstanding history in 100 minute lessons
• Ofsted best practice case study: successful 2 year Key Stage 3
• What is differentiation? What might it look like in the history classroom?
• Numeracy: Using data in the history classroom
• OCR Applied History course – offer something different to GCSE
• Assessment without levels – a few thoughts