Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
@educprofclaire.bsky.social
Director ITE, Uni of York; teachereducator; history education advocate; lifelong learner; likes nothing more than being outside esp. in the North. Derbyshire lass. Views my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇰🇪🇸🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧
Standing ovation 👏 this evening for the legend who is James Noble-Rogers, about to retire from UCET after 21 years at the helm. But not before we got Andy H to conduct a special ‘this is your life’ drinks.
Thank you James, for all you have done for the HEI ITE sector over many decades.
#legend
#ucet
Thank you James, for all you have done for the HEI ITE sector over many decades.
#legend
#ucet
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Good luck to the 2025-26 UoYPGCE primary and secondary cohorts tomorrow as they go into placement schools across Yorkshire & Humberside. You’ve got this!
#newteachergeneration
#pgceUoYprimary
#pgceUoYsecondary
#newteachergeneration
#pgceUoYprimary
#pgceUoYsecondary
snoopy and woodstock are holding a pink flag that says good luck
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September 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Good luck to the 2025-26 UoYPGCE primary and secondary cohorts tomorrow as they go into placement schools across Yorkshire & Humberside. You’ve got this!
#newteachergeneration
#pgceUoYprimary
#pgceUoYsecondary
#newteachergeneration
#pgceUoYprimary
#pgceUoYsecondary
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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 7:28 PM
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A huge welcome to our 2025-26 @universityofyork PGCE cohort! Virtual hello for secondary BTs this week, but the secondary team are looking forward to saying hello in person on Monday next week. Primary BTs already up & running!!
Welcome aboard your PGCE journey at York!
Welcome aboard your PGCE journey at York!
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September 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A huge welcome to our 2025-26 @universityofyork PGCE cohort! Virtual hello for secondary BTs this week, but the secondary team are looking forward to saying hello in person on Monday next week. Primary BTs already up & running!!
Welcome aboard your PGCE journey at York!
Welcome aboard your PGCE journey at York!
Important article getting at the heart of retention problems with ECTs. Push-pull factors clear. Lots of good for thought for schools, DfE, trusts, appropriate bodies and ITE providers. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PRNJER...
The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England
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September 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Important article getting at the heart of retention problems with ECTs. Push-pull factors clear. Lots of good for thought for schools, DfE, trusts, appropriate bodies and ITE providers. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PRNJER...
Reposted by Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
Caz Coronel: “Now, more than ever, we need kindness and compassion and a genuine effort to understand each other, even towards those with prejudice.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse after UK’s supreme court ruling
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Caz Coronel: “Now, more than ever, we need kindness and compassion and a genuine effort to understand each other, even towards those with prejudice.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Reposted by Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
"The ITT curriculum needs to be carefully designed & sequenced in order to maximise learning & retention: overloading the syllabus dilutes the impact of everything in it." A good piece from Yalinie Vigneswaran of @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social, @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Overloading ITT isn’t the solution to society’s ills
We can’t solve every challenge in society by adding it into teacher training - but government-backed professional development would help teachers to play their part, says Yalinie Vigneswaran
www.tes.com
August 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"The ITT curriculum needs to be carefully designed & sequenced in order to maximise learning & retention: overloading the syllabus dilutes the impact of everything in it." A good piece from Yalinie Vigneswaran of @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social, @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
@uoyeducation.bsky.social a few photos of the PGCE Graduates (History, Geog, MFL) and PGCE staff celebrating at today’s graduation!
#Graduation2025
#Graduation2025
July 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@uoyeducation.bsky.social a few photos of the PGCE Graduates (History, Geog, MFL) and PGCE staff celebrating at today’s graduation!
#Graduation2025
#Graduation2025
Greg gets to meet Longboi at last……
#Graduation2025
#Graduation2025
July 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Greg gets to meet Longboi at last……
#Graduation2025
#Graduation2025
Congratulations @lydiawigley.bsky.social - this is so well deserved, you’re going to be a fabulous history teacher! Stay in touch…
#Graduation2025
#BrilliantTeachers
#Graduation2025
#BrilliantTeachers
Today I graduated from the @york.ac.uk 🎉
It has been such a lovely year and I am so excited for my next steps as an ECT!
#PGCE #ECT #Graduation #Teacher #Education
It has been such a lovely year and I am so excited for my next steps as an ECT!
#PGCE #ECT #Graduation #Teacher #Education
July 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Congratulations @lydiawigley.bsky.social - this is so well deserved, you’re going to be a fabulous history teacher! Stay in touch…
#Graduation2025
#BrilliantTeachers
#Graduation2025
#BrilliantTeachers
Graduation day today for all Univ of York PGCE students! Some of the brightest gowns in town donned by the tutor team (incl. THAT ‘Barbie’ gown), but achievement so well earned for Team History making @ruthlingard & I very proud indeed.. Congratulations Team History! Ready to make a difference..
July 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Graduation day today for all Univ of York PGCE students! Some of the brightest gowns in town donned by the tutor team (incl. THAT ‘Barbie’ gown), but achievement so well earned for Team History making @ruthlingard & I very proud indeed.. Congratulations Team History! Ready to make a difference..
So I think the mighty Helen S would be smiling down on us today: our brilliant 24/25 historians completed their PGCE, & so we invited them to choose one of Helen’s history books as a celebration gift. Helen’s husband donated her history collection to the PGCE course, with this request. They had fun!
July 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So I think the mighty Helen S would be smiling down on us today: our brilliant 24/25 historians completed their PGCE, & so we invited them to choose one of Helen’s history books as a celebration gift. Helen’s husband donated her history collection to the PGCE course, with this request. They had fun!
A great cause in memory of a brilliant educator, colleague and friend. Donate if you can, this fellowship will change some teachers’ pedagogy and curriculum for the good of their pupils….
#grthistorymatters
#representation
#HAfellowships
#grthistorymatters
#representation
#HAfellowships
Support the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Teacher Fellowship Programme | In memory of Helen Snelson
The Historical Association is working to raise funds to establish a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Teacher Fellowship Programme - a professional development initiative for teachers - in memory of Helen Sne...
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June 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A great cause in memory of a brilliant educator, colleague and friend. Donate if you can, this fellowship will change some teachers’ pedagogy and curriculum for the good of their pupils….
#grthistorymatters
#representation
#HAfellowships
#grthistorymatters
#representation
#HAfellowships
Join the brilliant, friendly, talented PGCE team at Univ of York! It’s a wonderful uni to work within, & a welcoming Dept of Education.
We’re looking for an experienced and inspiring English lead tutor, who is ready to take the PGCE English course into its next chapter. What have you got to lose?
We’re looking for an experienced and inspiring English lead tutor, who is ready to take the PGCE English course into its next chapter. What have you got to lose?
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Join the brilliant, friendly, talented PGCE team at Univ of York! It’s a wonderful uni to work within, & a welcoming Dept of Education.
We’re looking for an experienced and inspiring English lead tutor, who is ready to take the PGCE English course into its next chapter. What have you got to lose?
We’re looking for an experienced and inspiring English lead tutor, who is ready to take the PGCE English course into its next chapter. What have you got to lose?
Reposted by Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
@htenuk.bsky.social would like to congratulate @counsellc.bsky.social on the award of an OBE in the King's birthday honours list. Christine's contribution to the #historyteacher #HistoryEducation and #curriculum has, and continues to be, incredibly significant.
Congratulations Christine!
Congratulations Christine!
June 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
@htenuk.bsky.social would like to congratulate @counsellc.bsky.social on the award of an OBE in the King's birthday honours list. Christine's contribution to the #historyteacher #HistoryEducation and #curriculum has, and continues to be, incredibly significant.
Congratulations Christine!
Congratulations Christine!
Not a huge fan of the Honours system esp. when I see folk awarded who really don’t impress. But that @counsellc.bsky.social has been awarded an OBE makes me think someone somewhere does understand just what honours should be all about. What a rich impact CC has had on history ed. Congratulations!
June 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Not a huge fan of the Honours system esp. when I see folk awarded who really don’t impress. But that @counsellc.bsky.social has been awarded an OBE makes me think someone somewhere does understand just what honours should be all about. What a rich impact CC has had on history ed. Congratulations!
Downholme exploring with a birthday pint P1
May 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Downholme exploring with a birthday pint P1
Marske Beck valley Pt1
May 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Marske Beck valley Pt1
Dales Trip - May 2025 Pt1
May 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Dales Trip - May 2025 Pt1
When your partner knows you’re marking assignments……..
#fridaypmchocboost
#fridaypmchocboost
May 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
When your partner knows you’re marking assignments……..
#fridaypmchocboost
#fridaypmchocboost
Dumfries and Galloway, Easter 2025
April 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dumfries and Galloway, Easter 2025
The dog’s gone full holiday mode in less than 48 hours…..
April 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The dog’s gone full holiday mode in less than 48 hours…..
Want to be a teacher? Here’s what it’s like training with us at York: blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voic...
Studying PGCE Geography at York - Student Voices
Hear from Stella, A PGCE Geography student, as she talks through why she chose York, the course structure and her next steps following uni.
blogs.york.ac.uk
March 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Want to be a teacher? Here’s what it’s like training with us at York: blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voic...
Reposted by Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
Empathy been in the news a lot lately. George Eliot had a theory that works.
March 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Empathy been in the news a lot lately. George Eliot had a theory that works.
After a really busy week or two & a busy Friday afternoon ahead, the arrival of this through the letterbox at lunchtime has cheered me up considerably, as it always does!! Saturday reading - sorted ✅ #historyteacheratheart
#hacommunity
#hacommunity
March 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After a really busy week or two & a busy Friday afternoon ahead, the arrival of this through the letterbox at lunchtime has cheered me up considerably, as it always does!! Saturday reading - sorted ✅ #historyteacheratheart
#hacommunity
#hacommunity