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Mike Hill
@michaeldoron
Assistant Principal & Head of History at @arksoaneacademy
London, England
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    Mike Hill
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    Oct 24, 2025
    🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨 Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25. Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today. Presenters & link below 👇
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    Mike Hill
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    Mar 21, 2020
    Bit baffled to see teachers on here already working from home (planning lessons, making resources, etc) Don’t forget to give yourself a weekend. We just had one of the most emotionally and physically draining weeks of our lives. I’m going to sleep and play PS4 for two days.
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    Mike Hill
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    Nov 20, 2020
    Teaching a class in person and teaching a class online are full-time tasks. Teachers can do one or the other - not both at the same time.
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    Mike Hill
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    Oct 3, 2020
    Writing a detention in a student’s planner:
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    Mike Hill
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    Sep 19, 2020
    Yesterday a Y7 student looked at me and said, “You never shout.” This made me realise that since I joined a school with a functioning behaviour policy, I’ve not had to raise my voice once. Backed by good systems, every teacher can become better at managing behaviour.
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    Mike Hill
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    Dec 12, 2020
    Was asked for ID by the elderly gentleman at the till and stupidly didn’t have any on me, so I panicked and protested “I am 30 years old! I’m a school teacher!” In lieu of ID, Alan then extensively quizzed me about Henry VIII, and I somehow managed to pass. Huzzah!
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    Mike Hill
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    May 19, 2022
    Is this man in my Year 7 class
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    Amazing facts!
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    May 19, 2022
    There is a man in India who held his arm up one day and decided to never put it down. It's been 45+ years.
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    Mike Hill
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    Dec 15, 2021
    I teach two Year 7 classes on different days of the week and found out today that they ask each other not to spoiler the next history lesson. 🥲
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    Mike Hill
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    Jun 10, 2021
    Knowing and using pupils’ names is the closest we have to witchcraft in teaching. It completely changes virtually all interactions, whether you’re teaching, covering, on duty, and so on.
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    Mike Hill
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    Oct 5, 2020
    I took in my Y10 pupils’ history books today and noticed that one of them has been writing down the Do Now task as the “Doeth Noweth”. 🙏
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    Mike Hill
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    May 3, 2018
    Got up early to cast my last ever vote before losing my voting rights after #Brexit. Proud moment. Don’t forget to cast yours - it’s a duty and a privilege. #PollingDay #LocalElections2018
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    Mike Hill
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    Feb 16, 2024
    What’s the worst development in history teaching over the last fifty years? Here’s what I think it might be, written up as a long-ish thread. It’s half an ‘old man yells at cloud’ rant and half a summary of my workshop at the #Soane24 conference. THREAD 🧵
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    Mike Hill
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    Jun 2, 2020
    Replying to @LouisEverett1
    Stickers on the spine of exercise books. Haven’t had a single book “lost” in the wrong pile since, and if a pupil doesn’t have their book once all have been handed out I immediately know if it’s in my cupboard or not.
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    Mike Hill
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    Apr 18, 2021
    Am I the only teacher who has no interest in Line of Duty? Am I breaching the Teachers’ Standards?