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Strong history and geography teaching builds knowledge of the world and how it came to be. But the humanities are often squeezed for time and taught without a clear sense of progression. This training helps your staff teach history and geography with rigour, so pupils build lasting knowledge and understanding.
Below, we explain what our history and geography training involves, and how it helps you strengthen the humanities across your school.
What Is History & Geography Teaching Training?
It’s practical training that helps staff teach history and geography effectively. We cover subject knowledge, sequencing and progression, developing disciplinary understanding, teaching substantive and disciplinary knowledge, and building the vocabulary that underpins the humanities.
We focus on making the humanities rigorous and coherent, and tailor it to your curriculum and phase.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It suits whole-school INSET, humanities teams, and subject leads. Trusts often run it across schools for a consistent humanities curriculum.
Many schools ask for it to strengthen history and geography, improve curriculum sequencing, or prepare for subject deep dives.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Subject knowledge in history and geography
- Sequencing the humanities curriculum
- Substantive and disciplinary knowledge
- Developing historical and geographical thinking
- Building subject-specific vocabulary
- Planning coherent, knowledge-rich lessons
- Assessing the humanities meaningfully
- Preparing for humanities deep dives
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Strengthen the humanities
Your staff learn to teach history and geography with rigour, so pupils build lasting knowledge.
2
Sequence for progression
We help you build a curriculum where knowledge builds coherently over time.
3
Develop disciplinary thinking
Staff learn to teach pupils to think like historians and geographers, not just recall facts.
4
Build subject knowledge
We strengthen the teacher subject knowledge that underpins confident humanities teaching.
5
Prepare for deep dives
Your subject leaders will be ready to talk about the humanities with clarity and evidence.
6
Raise standards
Better humanities teaching lifts outcomes and gives these subjects the status they deserve.
7
Support subject leaders
Humanities leaders learn to drive a strong, well-sequenced curriculum.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We use your own curriculum where it helps, so the training is grounded and relevant.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Builds subject knowledge
We strengthen the knowledge that underpins confident humanities teaching.
Tailored to your curriculum
We shape the training around your humanities curriculum and phase.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a humanities team session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know the humanities are often squeezed, and how to teach them with rigour. Our training helps you strengthen history and geography, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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