Support for trainees and ECTs

Support and guidance for those applying to become history teachers, for trainees and early career teachers and for teacher trainers and mentors.


Useful links

Beginning Teacher HA

This webpage further supports new history teachers undertaking their training.  There is a good deal of information in these pages that will provide both depth and breadth of knowledge in history pedagogy.  It provides materials that can help beginner teachers develop their subject skills and knowledge and to reflect critically and constructively on their teaching and students’ learning.  

https://www.history.org.uk/secondary/categories/beginning-teacher



HA Early Career Programme

This webpage offers a wealth of support and guidance for new history teachers. It is designed to provide history-specific training and induction so that beginner teachers become high quality history teachers with a clear vision of what good history teaching is like. 

 https://www.history.org.uk/secondary/categories/942/news/4045/early-career-development-programme-ecdp 

Useful scholarship

Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

https://www.history.org.uk/publications/resource/9721/bridging-the-gap-supporting-early-career-teachers