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Carmel works nationally in schools with classroom teachers and those who are leading on teaching and learning to achieve short term gains and long term results.
A sought after trainer and consultant she tailors INSET to ensure that schools, groups of schools, departments and individuals are enthused and moved forward with their thinking. She is the director of Carmel Bones Education and works closely with Osiris as a team leader and trainer for the (OTI) Osiris Teaching intervention, working with primary, secondary and post 16 teachers. Carmel is an A-level and GCSE examiner.
Teachers are talented, busy people with the job of making a vital positive difference to young people’s lives. Carmel’s aim is to make Inset practical, memorable and effective.
Continuous improvement has been the hallmark of her 20 year teaching experience as AST and HOD. She is ambitious for all the young people and colleagues that she works with.
Carmel is also a member of the Historical Association’s national secondary committee and a consulting editor for Hodder Education's new GCSE Dynamic Learning series. Recently she wrote new BBC Bitesize GCSE material and contributes to Oxford University Press newsletters. She leads workshops at the annual Historical Association and Schools History Project Conferences.
In June 2017 Carmel was award a Fellowship from the Historical Association.
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Carmel recently worked with BBC Teach to produce this 10 part series of short animated films to explain first order historical concepts.
Carmel proudly hosted the opening day of the inaugural Osiris Educational World Education Summit on March 22nd 2021.
Carmel will be delivering 2022 Lord Burghley’s Almshouses AQA Elizabethan England Historic Environment Teacher Webinar in 2021.
Carmel’s Kenilworth Castle work has been nominated in the Teach Secondary Awards 2020!
Carmel joins the BBC Daily Bitesize team during Lockdown 2020 to oversee the Key Stage 3 History programme.
Carmel’s pioneering webinar work with Hodder Education and Nathan Ashman has been shortlisted in the EdTech50 list 2020.
Clickview, who Carmel proudly writes content for, were nominated for secondary content provider at the 2020 Bett awards.
Carmel delivered an interactive Keynote and Workshop at the West Cumbria Teaching School Alliance Ebacc Day on 1st October
Carmel is super excited to be teaming up with some big names in the 2019/20 academic year!
Carmel is delighted to have been invited back to join David Starkey and David Ferriby for the Hodder Student Revisions Conferences in 2020!
Carmel is delighted to be having professional learning conversations in Scotland in 2019/20!
Carmel rubbed shoulders with Dr David Starkey and David Ferriby in London AND Manchester last week, at two of Hodder Education’s Student Revision Conferences.
The second edition of Carmel’s co-authored My Revision Notes: History AQA GSCE (9–1) is sitting pretty atop of the Amazon Best Sellers list in the History of Education category.
Carmel was back in action at the Annual Bett Conference 2019 this weekend, collaborating with Studytracks (Music Memory and Mobiles) and ClickView.
Carmel pulls her presenting hat on to introduce BBC Teach’s ClueTubers, a suite of films that will help students get to grips with the skills required to investigate historic sites.
Get ready for the autumn term by getting up close and personal with key locations for upcoming History GCSE examinations.
The first OTI Osiris cohort graduated as the first "Excellence in teaching" course was held at the Hilton in Glasgow.
Study Tracks join Radio 5 Live Drive Time’s Tony Livesey and Sarah Brett to discuss revision stress as exam season approaches.
Carmel is delighted to announce the publication of her co-authored My Revision Notes book for the OCR GCSE (9–1) History B qualification.
The BBC Bitesize GCSE History App that Carmel contributed Elizabethan England content for is available now!
Carmel has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship of the Historical Association at the Annual Awards Ceremony on 15th June 2017.
Teaching Elizabethan England? Bespoke packages of help are available including an exploration of Hardwick Hall.
Carmel teams up with Nathan Ashman to showcase VR in the classroom on the Bett Futures stage at the Bett Conference 2017.
Carmel acted as Consulting Editor for the online dynamic learning materials that accompany Wesley Royle’s newly published AQA GCSE History: Elizabethan England, c1568-1603