Lecturer (Teaching)

Helen McCord

Helen teaches across the Centre’s professional development programmes. She leads our successful ITE programme and she is a mentor for our Beacon School programme.

 

Helen has worked in education for over 20 year, joining the Centre in September 2019. Prior to this she had been a teacher of history for 16 years, also working as a mentor and subject leader for ITE. A Teaching Fellow (2018) and a Chartered Teacher of History for the Historical Association (2019), Helen also completed our MA module ‘The Holocaust in the Curriculum’  before joining the Centre.

Helen has worked upon many projects for the Centre and has authored numerous lesson resources for use in the classroom. For example, she has worked with the children’s author Tom Palmer, leading the Centre’s project to develop lesson materials to support teachers using the novel ‘After the War’ with their students. A co-author of our research informed KS3 textbook ‘Understanding the Holocaust: How and why did it happen?’ Helen also developed the textbook teacher guidance materials. Helen is keen to support teachers to effectively challenge prevalent misconceptions around issues of perpetration and wider complicity. To this end she has created guidance materials to support the online exhibition ‘Compromised Identities: Reflections on perpetration and complicity under Nazism’ and is leading the development of a Berlin CPD programme for teachers with the support of generous funding from the Association of Jewish refugees (AJR). Helen also works as a trustee for the charity Solutions not Sides and is an active committee member of the History Teacher Educators Network.

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