Ask staff to evaluate their own skills and knowledge
Download and adapt our staff self-assessment tool and encourage all your teachers to complete it.
This will give you a good understanding of how confident your staff are in teaching history, and help them reflect on their own levels of skills and knowledge.
The tool asks staff to rate their confidence when it comes to:
- The subject knowledge required in the National Curriculum
- Key skills and concepts in history, such as:
- Terminology and vocabulary
- Using sources
- Displays
- Cause and effect
Audit your current history teaching to find areas to develop
Download our set of questions to help you to identify where your teachers may need extra support in teaching history.
The audit contains some ideas for next steps if you find that your teachers need help developing any particular skills or knowledge: