#HistoryTeacher and Head of EPQ at a 🇬🇧 school in 🇭🇰, MCCT, passionate about diversity & inclusion, CPD dork, T&L lover, pilates is my jam
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Finally put up my ‘Think Like a Historian’ display ft. podcasts, films/tv, books and websites. Happy to share if anyone is keen! Also printed the @histassoc historical fiction list for students to skim through! #historyteacher #historydisplay
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#OTD 29th September 1916: John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire according to newspapers in the USA youtu.be/XYhWLX-7GvY #historyteacher #sschat
Attention grabbing starters that encourage creative thinking - How it started and how it's going. Pupils have to explain/sketch in the blanks. @historyteacher
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Historians buried this story for centuries.
In 1518, an entire city lost control of their bodies...
The cause? Something far more mysterious than any disease.
Welcome to the Dancing Plague and its 500-year-old mystery: 🧵
Swan Lake, an icon of Soviet culture, was played on loop on televisions after Brezhnev died while selecting a successor. It returned after the deaths of Andropov, Chernenko and during the coup against Gorbachev. #historyteacher #lenintoyeltsin
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The 15 hilarious and Coolest maps you've probably never seen before:
1. Bosnians: I wanna swim
Croatia : No
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Bored of setting work that ends up in an extended piece of writing? An essay? An exam answer? Hopefully this short piece on 20 Engaging End Products for the History Classroom will offer you some inspiration & new ideas bit.ly/43irLLv
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Highlighting has been identified as being a less effective study strategy compared to retrieval & spaced practice (Dunlosky et al 2013, Hattie & Donohue 2021) but this technique can be used as a starting point when it comes to studying. I explain in this article for @HWRK_Magazine
hwrkmagazine.co.uk/dont-ditc…
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This guy has published 83 novels and more than 200 short stories.
He is a towering figure in the world of writing.
All writers should memorize these 14 epic tips from Stephen King's book "On Writing":🧵
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25 January 1960. The Gulag system of forced labour camps in the Soviet Union was officially abolished. Soviet historians suggest 1.6 million died in them, mainly due to overwork and starvation, but western historians put the death toll at 6 million.
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#OnThisDayInWW2 (1/2/41) when engaged in Allied efforts to remove the Italians from East Africa, Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat was with a section of Indian engineers clearing mines on the Sudanese border. His car was blown up twice and he was injured but carried on. He was subsequently awarded the Victorian Cross for his conspicuous gallantry.
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Some renewed attention for this today.
Students need to know 20,000 words when they leave secondary. Beyond the most common 6,000 words, less frequently used words are more likely to be encountered through reading (@ThinkReadTweet)
Here are five ways to weave reading into the curriculum by @teacherhead and me.
Thank you so much to all those who tuned in to my presentation this afternoon with @TTRHistory Such a great opportunity to speak along side such established & creative teachers. #historyteacher
Slides: drive.google.com/drive/mobil…
Recording: streamyard.com/watch/bV8VSga…
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Are you getting ready?? We are!! At 10am we are ready to go! Remember to join us via: streamyard.com/watch/bV8VSga…
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24 hours to go until our FREE History teachmeet!!
You can still join us by signing up on the link streamyard.com/watch/bV8VSga…
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Very excited to have @MrsSamtani speaking on Saturday. Don’t miss put, grab your free ticket now!
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20 Jan 1942: The #Wannsee Conference takes place among Nazi officials to discuss the details of the “Final Solution” of the “#Jewish question.” The conference took place in the #Berlin suburb of Wannsee. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters #Holocaust #OTD #ad amzn.to/3qAuR6V
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Our Y7s explored the role of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages through this snakes and ladders game. They created a board game, power, hope and help cards. #historyteacher
Super excited to speak about the disciplinary concept of change & continuity at the upcoming @TTRHistory on Saturday 25 Jan. I'll be looking at similarities between KS3 and KS5 and different activities to reinforce these concepts. I just can't wait! #historyteacher