Simon Harrison

I have worked in UK comprehensive schools as a history teacher and head of department for 11 years, the last three of which I have also combined with being an Advanced Skills Teacher. In this role I spend 80% of my time in the classroom and 20% doing outreach work within Hampshire history departments and beyond. This has included work for the Schools History Project, BECTA and the Historical Association. My work has particularly focussed on effective use of ICT in the History classroom, more recently looking at getting pupils to evaluate websites effectively and using databases to encourage more rigorous historical thinking.

I have worked in UK comprehensive schools as a history teacher and head of department for 11 years, the last three of which I have also combined with being an Advanced Skills Teacher. In this role I spend 80% of my time in the classroom and 20% doing outreach work within Hampshire history departments and beyond. This has included work for the Schools History Project, BECTA and the Historical Association. My work has particularly focussed on effective use of ICT in the History classroom, more recently looking at getting pupils to evaluate websites effectively and using databases to encourage more rigorous historical thinking.