Welcome to this course on running the Junior Cycle History Classroom-Based Assessments. You already know your history. What this short course focuses on is the part that is hard to run well: three weeks of research for a whole class, each student, pair or group on a subject of their own, keeping the work theirs while you help, judging it on balance, and getting through SLAR.

There are four lessons of about 30 minutes. By the end of this first lesson you will have completed a baseline confidence audit, stated how the CBAs run now, described both tasks at a glance, and seen how to plan the weeks back from the SLAR meeting. Your survey answers, reflections and judged sample across the course compile into a downloadable Professional Learning Portfolio when you finish.

Before any CBA content in this course, rate your current confidence across the five areas the course develops. Answer honestly. Lower ratings simply show where the course can help most. You will re-take the same five statements at the end, item for item, so you can see how far you have come from a true starting point.

Watch this presentation on the history CBAs as they run now: the current arrangements, this year's dates, The Past in My Place and A Life in Time at a glance, what the two share, and planning back from the SLAR date.

Study this CBA class planner, filled in for an invented second-year class running The Past in My Place and planned back from the SLAR date. Read the notes on each choice.

Download the blank planner to use with your own classes: CBA class planner (Word).