This is a practical course which shares with delegates recent findings about motivating and engaging learners and examines ways in which they can be applied to history lessons. The morning sessions will examine the opportunities provided by the new National Curriculum to develop lessons which focus on process - as well as content - as a motivational tool. Delegates will have opportunities to use these findings to adapt generic tasks to their subject and create sample lessons to share with their school.

The afternoon sessions will examine techniques to motivate and engage by personalising pupil learning through multiple intelligence based history activities and by using learning preferences to deepen historical understanding. Delegates will have opportunities to develop lesson activities which can be incorporated into the History Schemes of Work in their own school.