Andrew Wrenn is a freelance History Education consultant. He is also a Teacher Fellow and recent trustee of the Historical Association, a UK subject organisation which promotes the teaching of history cross-phrase. Andrew is a national assessor for the Historical Association's Quality Mark Award for the teaching of history in primary and secondary schools. He is a former LA advisor for history and humanities and is an experienced teacher, trainer and writer. Andrew has had educational materials and articles published by the Historical Association, the BBC, Pearson, HarperCollins and the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. He steered the Historical Association's KS2/3 History Transition Project and co-authored a government-sponsored HA report on Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19. Andrew is a regular contributor to national UK history conferences and has also led CPD internationally in Paris, the Baltic States, Oman and Nigeria. He wrote an upper KS2 World History curriculum for teaching in Kazakh schools and his materials are in use in schools as far afield as Australia and Pakistan as well as in the UK.
See more from Andrew WrennA Webinar for TAs: Strategies to Support History Lessons with Confidence | Primary
This webinar will provide teaching assistants with advice and practical guidance on supporting pupils with wide-ranging starting-points and needs in history lessons, through one-to-one and small group work, to enhance knowledge and understanding.
Webinar Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes (approx.)
This webinar will provide teaching assistants with advice and practical guidance on supporting pupils with wide-ranging starting-points and needs in history lessons, through one-to-one and small group work, to enhance knowledge and understanding.
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) reports that, when teaching assistants work in structured settings with high-quality support and training, their targeted one-to-one or small-group interventions show “a consistent impact on attainment of approximately three to four additional months’ progress”.
In this webinar, Andrew Wrenn, experienced history education consultant, national assessor, teacher, trainer, writer and adviser, will explore the role of the teaching assistant in history lessons and identify strategies and resources to enhance pupil outcomes.