About Mr Allsop
Scott Allsop studied History at Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge and graduated in 2002. He worked for a short period as a buyer for HMV before returning to Cambridge to complete his teacher training. He is currently the Head of Humanities at an international school in Egypt, and teaches Key Stage 3, CIE IGCSE and Higher Level International Baccalaureate History. He was previsouly the Head of History and an elected Staff Governor at a comprehensive school in Guildford, UK.
He was nominated for the national Teaching Awards in 2008 and was shortlisted for the BBC History Magazine/Historical Association History Teacher of the Year award in 2007.
He is a keen advocate of the use of ICT to help students study History, and has developed a range of resources to use digital technology in teaching and learning. His website, www.mrallsophistory.com, has been awarded a number of accolades including the Topmarks Excellent Site Award and the SchoolZone Five Star Site award. At the height of the 2008-09 academic year his GCSE and IGCSE revision podcasts were accessed by over 7,000 people a month, and he became a MirandaNet scholar as a result of his work using ICT to develop history teaching. His podcasts have been featured in a publication by the Training and Development Agency for Schools as well as an article on digital learning for the Guardian newspaper.
His educational video to accompany Billy Joel's song, "We Didn't Start the Fire" is one of the Top-10 most viewed videos on TeacherTube with in excess of 570,000 views from teachers in over 80 countries. He wrote an article for the December 2009 edition of the Historical Association's journal Teaching History that explores using the video as part of a lesson sequence on significance.
In the past he ran a website dedicated to abandoned shopping lists, and has been featured in the Times Educational Supplement as well as television programs including The Wonderful World of Weird for CBBC and Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show for ITV to explain how this strange hobby links with the skills of an Historian. Passionate about new opportunities to engage students, he acted in an advisory capacity to the creators of the About Time boardgame.
He and his students were featured on the Open University/BBC television production The History Detectives in 2008 where they revealed the story behind one of the artefacts Mr Allsop uses in class.
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