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.