Looking for some high-quality professional learning that you can conveniently access at any time? HTAV have got you covered with the release of their suite of on-demand professional learning. Great for watching together in a Professional Learning Community or Learning Area meeting!

• HTAV HistoryEDge eCourses
• History Teaching Masterclass series
• 2024 HTAV Annual Conference – Keynote Recordings
• HistoryEDge podcasts for teachers
• History TeachMeets

HTAV HistoryEDge eCourses

These professional learning modules are designed to enhance your career and teaching practice.

HTAV is grateful for the support of the Strategic Partnerships Program of the Victorian Department of Education and Training, which provided the seed funding to develop and pilot these modules.

History Teaching Fundamentals – Primary This module introduces fourteen elements to support the teaching of history in the primary levels (F–6). Each section includes descriptions of vital aspects of history teaching for primary teachers. You will be provided with resources, key terminology, explanations, examples, activities and suggestions for further reading to gain more information. The cost of the full module is $99 (inc GST). Purchase access here.

History Teaching Fundamentals – Secondary This module introduces eight fundamental elements of effective History teaching in the secondary levels (7-12). For each element there are descriptions of vital aspects of History teaching. You will be provided with resources, key terminology, explanations, activities, and suggestions for further reading to gain more information. The cost of the full module is $99 (inc GST). Purchase access here.

History Teaching Masterclass series

HTAV brings you practising teachers and other experts sharing the things they really know about and/or have tested successfully in their setting.

History Teaching Masterclass: Every Teacher Can Teach First Nations History! How can we teach First Nations history accurately, respectfully and confidently? Presenters David and Kara will empower teachers to teach First Nations history in their classrooms. By starting out small, with some good resources and contacts, teachers can build a classroom that is inclusive and respectful of Australia’s First Nations history. David and Kara will lead the way, showing the steps and places where teachers can start to build great units and lessons for students. The cost of the masterclass is $70 (inc GST).

Free on-demand professional learning

2024 HTAV Annual Conference – Keynote Recordings

Day One: ‘We Won, You Lost. Get Over It!’ Moving Beyond Truth-telling to Justice in the Australian History Classroom
Dr Aleryk Fricker, Deakin University

The process of truth-telling in the History classroom has become more prominent in recent times. This has largely been driven by History teachers from a revisionist perspective, seeking to explore the untold histories of the forgotten people as a direct response to the ‘great men of history’ mentality that has dominated History classrooms for much of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the Australian context, this has contributed to an increase in the amount of First Nations content but also the troubling nature of the content being covered. Truth-telling has undoubtably had an impact on the History classroom, but possibly not in the ways it was hoped. This keynote explores the process of truth-telling and reconciliation, its limitations, and how the History classroom can move beyond historical truth-telling and into just History.

Dr Aleryk (Al) Fricker is a proud Dja Dja Wurrung academic based at the NIKERI Institute at Deakin University. A former History teacher, he now coordinates the Indigenous Education units across all the undergraduate education programs at Deakin. Al’s research focuses on Indigenous education and decolonising education in Australia so that all students can benefit from engaging with the oldest teaching pedagogies and knowledges in the world.

Day Two: Making Australian History
Professor Anna Clark, University of Technology Sydney

I’ve studied the ‘history wars’ for 20 years, so I know how Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations. Each iteration of Australia’s national story reveals not only the past in question, but also the guiding concerns and perceptions of each generation of history makers. Surprisingly, when I wrote Making Australian History there had been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. That was my starting point for the book.

But when it came to writing, it seemed there were more questions than answers: Where does Australian history even begin? With Deep Time? With those early colonial accounts of New Holland? And who are Australia’s historians?

History making has taken place in what we now call Australia for thousands of generations, but the History discipline has also been part of the architecture of its colonisation, policing whose stories can be told and by whom. We also know that history can play a vital role in truth-telling and reconciliation, as the Uluru Statement from the Heart has advocated. I wrote this book because I wanted to tell the story of ‘Australian history’—with all its messiness and possibility.

Professor Anna Clark is an award-winning historian, author and public commentator. An internationally recognised scholar in Australian history, History education and the role of history in everyday life, Anna’s most recent books are The Catch: Australia’s Love Affair with Fishing (2023) and Making Australian History (2022). She is currently Professor of History at the University of Technology Sydney.

HistoryEDge podcasts for teachers

The History EDge podcasts are hosted by HTAV Board member Lauren Burriss. In the first episode, Maddi Schmidt (St Francis Xavier College) meets with Lauren to tackle the common ways in which history students may find themselves ‘stuck’ in the classroom. Maddi and Lauren share their experiences, ideas and useful classroom strategies and hone in on ways to support History students.

This podcast is available to listen and subscribe to on all major podcast apps and via the following links:

• iTunes
• Spotify
• Google Podcasts
• Podbean
• RSS FEED: https://feed.podbean.com/historyedge/feed.xml

History TeachMeets

Covering such topics as VCE Revolutions, ‘Sassy’ Rubrics, historical thinking skills and digital learning tools, there's plenty to expand your professional learning and your teacher toolkit.

Each presentation only goes for 10 minutes but they are full of helpful tips, guidance and easy-to-use online platforms. Even the ones that cover a subject you aren’t teaching this year will contain classroom strategies and resources that you can use.

Watch the full TeachMeet here, or click on a topic below to head straight to that session:

	Strategies for Rising China and Your Students Maddi Schmidt, St Francis Xavier College
	Strategies, Engagement, Revision: Teaching the French Revolution Sophia Marsden-Smith, Williamstown High School
	Sassy Rubrics James Ridley, Hoppers Crossing Secondary College
	Interpreting Russian Revolution Art Dr Michael Adcock, Melbourne Grammar School
	Historical Thinking Skills Ashley Keith Pratt, Melbourne Girls Grammar School
	Digital Learning Tools for Feedback and Support of Students Nick Frigo, Santa Maria College

Joining HTAV's TeachMeets

HTAV is searching for teachers that have something they would like to share with other History teachers via our online recorded TeachMeets. Presentations would be brief and informal. If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or participate in a session, please email Myra Karantzas, HTAV Events Manager, at m.karantzas@htav.asn.au.