At the @histassoc YHF and Kath Goudie is talking to history teachers about preparing for Ofsted by not preparing for Ofsted....

1) Ask the right Q's. See TH168 HA update and #OBHD blog post on Q's to ask. Write your own and use it as an audit...

2) Work together - you all need a shared understanding (see TH112 Byron and Riley article to help with these conversations) and to share workload...

3) Curricular thinking is a journey not a destination. The curriculum is always contested and never finished. Long-term coherence not short-term cobbling...

Make a LT plan and then prioritise what parts you are going to work on. Sequencing...

5) Think hard about the nature of history. How are you balancing the substantive and the disciplinary. What decisions are you making? What is the rigour? Hammond on the knowledge that flavours the claim on this and TH171, WtWO and NNN...

6) Show what you do well. You could use this checklist to prepare yourselves. The @histassoc Quality Mark process is a useful way to prepare too.

7) The curriculum as the progression model - how are you assessing? What is progression across concepts? Can your students articulate it? TH 157 is helpful!

Make sure you teach what you say you are teaching!

9) Grasp opportunities to focus on history. Subject specific CPD is key @histassoc conference Bristol2020!

10) Engage with the history teaching community. Diversity is vital - see Boyd in TH 175 for example!