Season 2 · Episode 5
Teaching difficult histories
Hey History! · UTS Impact Studios
April 9, 202631m 40s
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Show Notes
Practical strategies to help you confidently teach history involving trauma and conflict.
You’ll learn how to:
- build trust
- use different techniques so everyone can ask a question
- respond to challenging or confronting student questions
- support students with personal connections to the content
- use frameworks like Safely In, Safely Out to manage sensitive material, and
- how to look after yourself as a teacher when the content feels heavy.
Resources and tipsheet
- Safely In Safely Out resources: Yada Vashem pedagogical principles and Safely In Safely Out preparing Holocaust lessons
- Teaching Difficult History: A guide for Grade Seven to Twelve Teachers Novia Scotia, Canada
- Free professional development tipsheet for this episode (in Teacher Downloads)
Voices
Educators: Ben Lawless (Victoria), Natalie Abadier (New South Wales), Louise Secker (Western Australia), Paul Foley (South Australia), Natalie Fong (Queensland), and Sarah Coleman (Queensland).
Host: Professor Anna Clark
Credits
- Hey History Teacher! is supported by the History Teachers Association of NSW.
- Executive Producer is Professor Anna Clark.
- Producer is Jane Curtis at UTS Impact Studios.
- Sound engineering by John Jacobs.
- Made on Gadigal Country in Sydney Australia.