Victoria Crooks
@victoriacrooks.bsky.social
Associate Professor History Education at University of Nottingham
Co-Chair @htenuk.bsky.social
Co-author: https://tinyurl.com/vj36v3hu
Blog: https://uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/
@UoNSoEHistory in other places
Co-Chair @htenuk.bsky.social
Co-author: https://tinyurl.com/vj36v3hu
Blog: https://uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/
@UoNSoEHistory in other places
Today @uonsoe.bsky.social the #ITT #historyteacher s were thinking about how ed research, learning theories & cog sci influence policy & practice & how knowledge of this helps us to make better choices to structure historical thinking & support pupils to engage in extended reading.
#CakeyFriday
#CakeyFriday
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today @uonsoe.bsky.social the #ITT #historyteacher s were thinking about how ed research, learning theories & cog sci influence policy & practice & how knowledge of this helps us to make better choices to structure historical thinking & support pupils to engage in extended reading.
#CakeyFriday
#CakeyFriday
Having a super week @uonsoe.bsky.social with #ITT #historyteacher s exploring each second order concept in turn and undertaking an #ITAP on questioning to promote historical thinking. Also lovely to celebrate a birthday today. #CakeyThursday
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2021/11/13/f...
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2021/11/13/f...
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Having a super week @uonsoe.bsky.social with #ITT #historyteacher s exploring each second order concept in turn and undertaking an #ITAP on questioning to promote historical thinking. Also lovely to celebrate a birthday today. #CakeyThursday
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2021/11/13/f...
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2021/11/13/f...
We finished ours yesterday too!
October 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
We finished ours yesterday too!
What a lovely day for the @uonsoe.bsky.social open day. Really good to have met so many prospective #ITT #TeacherTraining applicants.
If you're thinking about how you can #GetIntoTeaching this may help you think through your choices.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/10/01/g...
If you're thinking about how you can #GetIntoTeaching this may help you think through your choices.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/10/01/g...
October 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
What a lovely day for the @uonsoe.bsky.social open day. Really good to have met so many prospective #ITT #TeacherTraining applicants.
If you're thinking about how you can #GetIntoTeaching this may help you think through your choices.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/10/01/g...
If you're thinking about how you can #GetIntoTeaching this may help you think through your choices.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/10/01/g...
Today saw launch of our subject knowledge enhancement programme. 4 rooms of #ITT beginning #historyteacher s engaging in discussion on EQs linked to C20th & Partition. A wonderful display of history geekery 🤩
And homemade #CakeyFriday from a group member who hasn't baked since yr9 food tech!👏🏻
And homemade #CakeyFriday from a group member who hasn't baked since yr9 food tech!👏🏻
October 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Today saw launch of our subject knowledge enhancement programme. 4 rooms of #ITT beginning #historyteacher s engaging in discussion on EQs linked to C20th & Partition. A wonderful display of history geekery 🤩
And homemade #CakeyFriday from a group member who hasn't baked since yr9 food tech!👏🏻
And homemade #CakeyFriday from a group member who hasn't baked since yr9 food tech!👏🏻
Totally brilliant day with the #ITT #historyteacher s @uonsoe.bsky.social developing classroom presence and communication for our ITaP and watching some incredible microteaching -lots to learn but great foundations to build upon.
Topped off with a fab #CakeyFriday - homemade and not by me!
Topped off with a fab #CakeyFriday - homemade and not by me!
September 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Totally brilliant day with the #ITT #historyteacher s @uonsoe.bsky.social developing classroom presence and communication for our ITaP and watching some incredible microteaching -lots to learn but great foundations to build upon.
Topped off with a fab #CakeyFriday - homemade and not by me!
Topped off with a fab #CakeyFriday - homemade and not by me!
Currently reading 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit', by the inimitable Judith Kerr, with my 8-year-old. They watch Newsround every day at school, and this book is proving an excellent vehicle for providing a 'safe space' where they can ask the questions they have about their own world and time. 1/2
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Currently reading 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit', by the inimitable Judith Kerr, with my 8-year-old. They watch Newsround every day at school, and this book is proving an excellent vehicle for providing a 'safe space' where they can ask the questions they have about their own world and time. 1/2
Good to be out on campus for a tour thinking about the development of the landscape we now know as University Park, considering how we use local landscapes to bring environment and climate histories into the curriculum.
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
September 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Good to be out on campus for a tour thinking about the development of the landscape we now know as University Park, considering how we use local landscapes to bring environment and climate histories into the curriculum.
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
Great to see so many people at @uonsoe.bsky.social #SIG exploring the English Countryside from 1800 with Dr Sarah Holland @uonhumanities.bsky.social & our Manuscripts and Special Collections team, in the Weston Gallery at Lakeside Arts. How can we bring the local environment into the classroom?
September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Great to see so many people at @uonsoe.bsky.social #SIG exploring the English Countryside from 1800 with Dr Sarah Holland @uonhumanities.bsky.social & our Manuscripts and Special Collections team, in the Weston Gallery at Lakeside Arts. How can we bring the local environment into the classroom?
It is vital that #historyteacher s continue to make the case that history is an evolving discipline - as we apply new lenses, reconsider (or even discover) source material to derive new interpretations.
👏Quotes from William Doyle and David Andreas in recent @histassoc.bsky.social HA news.
👏Quotes from William Doyle and David Andreas in recent @histassoc.bsky.social HA news.
September 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It is vital that #historyteacher s continue to make the case that history is an evolving discipline - as we apply new lenses, reconsider (or even discover) source material to derive new interpretations.
👏Quotes from William Doyle and David Andreas in recent @histassoc.bsky.social HA news.
👏Quotes from William Doyle and David Andreas in recent @histassoc.bsky.social HA news.
And on top of all of that we've learnt a lot from each other in paired and group work, reflected on pedagogical approaches that were being modelled by tutors, coped with a slew of paperwork AND undertook a shocking activity involving a coprolite.
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
And on top of all of that we've learnt a lot from each other in paired and group work, reflected on pedagogical approaches that were being modelled by tutors, coped with a slew of paperwork AND undertook a shocking activity involving a coprolite.
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
We've met an #ECT #alumni, our @uconn.bsky.social #NEAG MA teacher colleagues who are working alongside us at some points this semester, and critically our #mentors who will be working with us during a first day in school. 3/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We've met an #ECT #alumni, our @uconn.bsky.social #NEAG MA teacher colleagues who are working alongside us at some points this semester, and critically our #mentors who will be working with us during a first day in school. 3/5
eliciting prior knowledge, ISMs, reflected on how we might use each other to build subject knowledge and established how important it is to know your stuff. We've practised creating positive learning environments and considered how we can build our teacher identity and professional behaviours. 2/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
eliciting prior knowledge, ISMs, reflected on how we might use each other to build subject knowledge and established how important it is to know your stuff. We've practised creating positive learning environments and considered how we can build our teacher identity and professional behaviours. 2/5
Wow what a week the @uonsoe.bsky.social #ITT #historyteacher s have had as we've begun our journey towards becoming a teacher together. We've thought about our preconceptions around effective history teaching, influences on the curriculum, role of textbooks and examinations...1/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Wow what a week the @uonsoe.bsky.social #ITT #historyteacher s have had as we've begun our journey towards becoming a teacher together. We've thought about our preconceptions around effective history teaching, influences on the curriculum, role of textbooks and examinations...1/5
And on top of all of that we've learnt a lot from each other in paired and group work, reflected on pedagogical approaches that were being modelled by tutors, coped with a slew of paperwork AND undertook a shocking activity involving a coprolite.
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And on top of all of that we've learnt a lot from each other in paired and group work, reflected on pedagogical approaches that were being modelled by tutors, coped with a slew of paperwork AND undertook a shocking activity involving a coprolite.
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
Thankfully this all ended with #CakeyFriday 4/5
We've met an #ECT #alumni, our @uconn.bsky.social #NEAG MA teacher colleagues who are working alongside us at some points this semester, and critically our #mentors who will be working with us during a first day in school. 3/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We've met an #ECT #alumni, our @uconn.bsky.social #NEAG MA teacher colleagues who are working alongside us at some points this semester, and critically our #mentors who will be working with us during a first day in school. 3/5
eliciting prior knowledge, ISMs, reflected on how we might use each other to build subject knowledge and established how important it is to know your stuff. We've practised creating positive learning environments and considered how we can build our teacher identity and professional behaviours. 2/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
eliciting prior knowledge, ISMs, reflected on how we might use each other to build subject knowledge and established how important it is to know your stuff. We've practised creating positive learning environments and considered how we can build our teacher identity and professional behaviours. 2/5
Wow what a week the @uonsoe.bsky.social #ITT #historyteacher s have had as we've begun our journey towards becoming a teacher together. We've thought about our preconceptions around effective history teaching, influences on the curriculum, role of textbooks and examinations...1/5
September 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wow what a week the @uonsoe.bsky.social #ITT #historyteacher s have had as we've begun our journey towards becoming a teacher together. We've thought about our preconceptions around effective history teaching, influences on the curriculum, role of textbooks and examinations...1/5
#EastMids #historyteacher colleagues, please make sure you've signed up for our next @uonsoe.bsky.social #SIG which is going to be a little bit different from usual as we're based over on University Park and will be going on a short history walking tour too.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
September 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#EastMids #historyteacher colleagues, please make sure you've signed up for our next @uonsoe.bsky.social #SIG which is going to be a little bit different from usual as we're based over on University Park and will be going on a short history walking tour too.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
Good examples of how post Industrial Britain sought to address pollution, energy use, protection of countryside etc. Could help build agency & galvanise to action. An important orientation for children's historical understanding addressing @1972shp.bsky.social PATHS principles 4&5. 2/2
September 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Good examples of how post Industrial Britain sought to address pollution, energy use, protection of countryside etc. Could help build agency & galvanise to action. An important orientation for children's historical understanding addressing @1972shp.bsky.social PATHS principles 4&5. 2/2
Trailed at the end of last term, I'm pleased to remind all #EastMids #historyteacher s that our next @uonsoe.bsky.social History Subject Interest Group #SIG is on Wednesday 17th September at 5pm.
Please sign up here to let us know you are coming:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
Please sign up here to let us know you are coming:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
September 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trailed at the end of last term, I'm pleased to remind all #EastMids #historyteacher s that our next @uonsoe.bsky.social History Subject Interest Group #SIG is on Wednesday 17th September at 5pm.
Please sign up here to let us know you are coming:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
Please sign up here to let us know you are coming:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/ev...
Many of us involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation have been keen to see subject, & distinctive nature of our discipline, re-centred in the recent focus on instructional coaching & core-practices in schools. It was brilliant, therefore, to read 'Secondary History in Action'. 1/
September 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Many of us involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation have been keen to see subject, & distinctive nature of our discipline, re-centred in the recent focus on instructional coaching & core-practices in schools. It was brilliant, therefore, to read 'Secondary History in Action'. 1/
#CakeyWednesday can mean only one thing - the start of @uonsoe.bsky.social #PGCE #ITT year and the welcoming of a new fab bunch of #historyteacher s to the profession.
#TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation
#TeacherMentoring #EduSky
#TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation
#TeacherMentoring #EduSky
August 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#CakeyWednesday can mean only one thing - the start of @uonsoe.bsky.social #PGCE #ITT year and the welcoming of a new fab bunch of #historyteacher s to the profession.
#TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation
#TeacherMentoring #EduSky
#TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation
#TeacherMentoring #EduSky
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July 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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