(Curriculum intent for History)

The History ITT programme seeks to enrich trainees with a wealth of knowledge within History, ensuring that trainees are knowledgeable on all the skills provided to be an effective History Teacher.

As a result, it is intended that trainee History teachers will be able to:

• Develop their subject knowledge to a depth and breadth that enables them to teach their subject at KS3-KS4 with confidence and competence
• Understand the pedagogy of their subject and be both deliberate and judicious in their choice of methods and approaches
• Be able of the curriculum requirements for the age range they teach and have awareness of how content is chosen to be broad, balanced and deliberately sequenced
• Understand how learning happens in their subject and be able to use a range of approaches to ensure that knowledge is more likely to be retained
• Learn about the statutory assessment arrangements for History and be able to guide and prepare students for both internal and external assessment
• Anticipate and address common misconceptions within planning and lesson delivery
• Develop students’ hinterland knowledge and intellectual curiosity
• Use a wide range of subject terminology and be aware of strategies to help students use these terms for themselves
• Provide learners with actionable, motivational and manageable subject specific feedback in order for them to make progress in their learning
• Create classroom climates that are inclusive for all learners regardless of ability or background through an awareness of potential barriers to learning and how to overcome these
• Learn how to activate hard thinking in their subject as a result of a deliberate approach to structuring, explaining, questioning, interacting and embedding knowledge