Mark Hall

Head of History + National Lead Practitioner.

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[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

Finally started coordinating resources I have into a central place: https://t.co/PQ5nk9O0dl will post more as soon as they are up.

Edexcel GCSE booklets for Crime and Punishment, Whitechapel and Anglo-Saxon Normans. Worked hard looking at as much research on booklet teaching.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

When your wife goes to the conference and you can't and she sends you a picture of your quote 🤣🤣

Y9s just wrote an assessment on conflict and they used their knowledge from Y7 on the Crusades along with Y9 content of Rasputin. Only possible with Carousel revision since Y7.

[Carousel @Carousel_Learn]

Such a great day with a brilliant crowd of history teachers at Ark Soane History Conference #soane25

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

The most amazing day I could ever ask for, thank you for everyone that came but none more than my absolutely stunning wife who I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with! @AbiJeffery who needs to change her handle now.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@adamboxer1 Formative does these generated ones but it is just stupid as it does not really align with any of the curriculum thinking or knowledge you actually want them to do. It can get in the bin.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@MrsBallAP @PeteJackson32 @HughJRichards @JCooperHistory First year switching to Cold War instead of a 16 Mark Q paper, all 8 marks and its the same pay, its been a dream!

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@MissH47772165 @Counsell_C @HughJRichards @CatPriggs @KatharineBurn @OliveyJacob Being part of a History Trust team, I would sometimes worry regarding too many chefs in the kitchen. I've known people to include things for the sake of they like it. To be self critical, I hate mandated trust assessments at KS3. They just make people rush and not contextualise.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@msmarshhistory1 We then had your departments contributions on the board, during said training 😄 so meta

[Richard Keogh @Mr_RKeogh]

How I leave through the double doors at the end of the Humanities corridor on a Friday:

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@MrARobbins Do the side quests every so often..... I tunnel visioned the story because it is EXCELLENT and ended up far far underlevelled at times. Little pause for the cause doing some bounties.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

I would move to Manchester to work with Eloise.

[Ms Eloise Marsh @msmarshhistory1]

Due to a team member securing a promotion, there is an exciting opportunity to join our wonderful History team 👏🏻 diverse and centralised curriculum, great students and friendly staff. Any questions please DM 🤓 https://t.co/fX0oUg0CQ0

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@HughJRichards The days of doing the conquest, finishing it and having to tag on random Norman bits that don't support the curriculum like Rufus shot in a forest, but the focus is change/continuity of the conquest. I am baffled by my early 4 years of teaching, I know better now.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@OakNational Historians read the Whats the wisdom on for second order concepts coming up in each enquiry for half term 1? No need to read all of them at once but half term batches first as there is only 10 max but will let you teach enquiries with better disciplinary thinking.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@TeacherBusy I post on an announcements thread on teams. Anything that my LM wants me to tell the team goes there, sometimes it's a bulletin but if I get told something mid week I post it before I forget. That way our weekly focus still is kept just in our department time.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@RogersHistory it makes me more responsive in the classroom to take a pause out. We spend co-planning after Y11 tweaking it for next years. If I had a textbook I would but history has so many varied topics you'd need so many different ones.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@kathholmes_ That amazing history team effort 👌 so well deserved always loved visiting!

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@jonniegrande @adamboxer1 @ThatBenRanson @kate_stockings Can honestly say it is fantastic using it in my History department and has made a good impact since September with retrieval. Kids are doing so much more in the do now and feel motivated so homework completion is up!

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@ShedsKatie This is useful. I know not everyone uses the approach of homework questions used for do now ones so having this as something which just requires some phrasing in the lesson is massively useful, thanks!

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

Spent the day observing at a school - one of the most annoying wastes of time that I see regularly is students 'busily' completing the Do Now. I've taken 15x photos of incomplete/empty do nows which just means the hardcore retrieval time for the lesson has been lost.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@ShedsKatie So I find this really interesting, when I've observed Maths, they are willing to use procedures to work it out, which means they are at least thinking. I think, (emphasis on think) they aren't as willing with historical knowledge like dates. Maybe, guess the century if nothing?

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

@MrRPerkins Ooh that's really interesting - nice to know there is some thinking going on in the same vein. Let me know if you come up with anything!

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

Has anyone got any reading or examples of embedding high stakes assessments at more frequent intervals?

I'm feeling at GCSE and KS3 our large mocks or EOY assessments are spaced too far between, meaning they struggle when they encounter one and wanted to explore ideas around it.

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

From just these two things, their knowledge has now evolved their understanding of wealth and power in England and France over time. I'm hoping class divide and revolutions in the Weimar Germany and Cold War study come much more fluently now. Well worth sequencing KS3 for this!

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

So for the last year I've been very intent on getting my student's History knowledge consolidated then flexible. It has been a bit trial an error but the main two features have come out.

1. Have mental models that translate across units
2. Use mini whiteboards to quiz the above

[Mark Hall @MrHall94]

This is an example of a rapid fire mini whiteboard session after Y10 had reached protest in our crime and punishment study. They can now adapt the hierarchy for several areas of their study. I'm now waiting to introduce the idea of communism to this when we study Germany.