Find an IB History tutor for SL or HL

IB Diploma Programme History is offered at Standard Level (SL) and Higher Level (HL). Schools choose topics and historical examples, so send the tutor your actual course outline. A tutor’s familiarity with your chosen periods and regions matters as well as their experience of IB assessment.

The outgoing course has its last assessment in 2027. The revised course began teaching in August 2026 and is first assessed in May 2028. Use materials for your examination cohort.

For the course assessed through 2027, Paper 1 includes evaluating a source’s value and limitations using its origin, purpose and content. That means connecting who produced it, why it was produced and what it says to the historian’s question. The revised 2028 paper asks students to use source content, context and perspectives in answering an inquiry question.

Here is a constructed practice exercise. These short sources are fictional, rather than extracts from a past paper.

Source A: a minister opening a public works project tells an audience, ‘Our policy has given every family lasting work.’

Source B: local officials write in a confidential report, ‘The project employed 120 people in two towns for six weeks.’

Inquiry: how far do these sources support a claim of lasting employment?

A weak response is: ‘A is biased, so B proves the policy failed.’ This dismisses one source and asks the other to prove too much. The public speech is useful evidence of how the minister presented the policy. Its purpose may encourage a positive account, and it provides no employment totals. The report describes temporary jobs in two towns. It cannot establish what happened nationally or whether those workers later found other work. Confidentiality alone does not make its contents accurate.

A stronger response would be: ‘The speech presents employment as a lasting success, while the report records only a brief local scheme. Together they show the government’s claim and a limited account of implementation. They do not establish a lasting national result.’

Now change the inquiry to how the government promoted its policy. Source A becomes direct evidence for that question. A useful follow-up is to explain that change in the source’s value without simply labelling it reliable or unreliable. In course practice, add the relevant historical context and follow your paper’s actual question wording.

HL History adds regional depth alongside the work shared with SL. The regional choices include Africa and the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and Europe. If you are looking for a History of the Americas tutor, give the specific topics and dates your school teaches as well as the regional name.

For the course first assessed in 2028, HL Paper 3 requires two essays from different regional studies. Its questions present arguments for students to evaluate. Preparation can therefore pair detailed knowledge with a deliberate challenge to the proposition in the question. For a claim that a development ‘significantly changed’ a society, define what changed, for whom and over which period; then identify what persisted. Use evidence from the studied case to decide how far the claim holds.

An HL lesson can focus on one such judgement before a timed response. A useful sign of progress is that the learner selects regional detail because it tests the argument, rather than adding dates and names that do not affect the answer.

The internal assessment (IA) is a historical investigation at both SL and HL. Tuition can focus on the skills behind it: distinguishing a broad topic from an answerable question, checking what a source can support, organising source notes and understanding referencing. Practise these on unassessed material, with the school’s rules guiding any discussion of the assessed investigation.

For example, when taking research notes, separate a source’s actual words, your paraphrase and your interpretation. Record the source and page at the time. That makes it easier to see which part of a later argument needs a citation and which conclusion you have drawn yourself.

The student must make their own research decisions and write their own assessed response. A tutor should not supply or rewrite the investigation’s argument or edit the submission beyond what is permitted. Check feedback limits and submission instructions with the school. The revised IA changes for first assessment in 2028, so use the school’s guide for the correct course.

Tutors set the hourly rates shown on their profiles, and Latimer’s standard lesson billing is pay as you go. Compare the rate with the tutor’s fit for your topics and the work you want to tackle. Agree the lesson length, frequency and budget before booking.

Latimer offers online-first, one-to-one tuition. Microsoft Teams is the default platform, and another meeting method can be agreed with the tutor. For History, prepare readable copies of the question, source material and your own response so you can discuss the same passage together. If in-person tuition is essential, include your location and check whether an individual arrangement is possible.

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