This document contains a series of posts by David E Rogers on adapting teaching to meet student needs. It discusses assessing students, supporting literacy and numeracy, engaging students through place-based learning, using images and questions to spark curiosity, and the importance of feedback. It also addresses challenges in adapting schemes of work and how to promote a love of learning geography through fieldwork, current events and using multiple senses.
2. What is weather and how does it affect people?
Do now:
Using the shapes below, create a sketch map
of the UK. You may have to rotate them and
resize.
Mark on the location of: London, Cardiff,
Edinburgh, Belfast
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4. What is the climate like on the African continent?
Starter challenges:
1. Approximately, how many times can you fit
the UK into the African continent?
UK Land area: 83,698 sq mi
African continent land area: 11.7 million sq mi
2. How many miles, north to south, is the
African continent?
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9. Teaching standard 5:
Knowing what your students need to know
Knowing where each student is
Using this knowledge to get them to where they should be
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10. Photo Credit used through Creative Commons
‘…there was a clear tendency amongst best teachers to see
the power of the humdrum, the everyday.’
Practice Perfect, Lemov, D; Woolway E; Yezzi, K p5-6
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A high-quality geography education
should inspire in pupils a curiosity
and fascination about the world and
its people that will remain with them
for the rest of their lives.
14. Thanks to Patcham High
School Art Department and Jo
Debens
High quality
teaching from
lesson one of
Year 7
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16. Schemes of work and the big plan
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Look at the specifications and Schemes of Work.
What challenges are there in adapting these?
Which groups of students need greater help?
18. How can we assess
where students are?
What a
top event!
Really?
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19. Loads of written
comments
Student doesn’t
engage with
marking
Appropriate
Feedback, variety
and timing
Student work is
rubbish
Student work is
better
What is feedback?
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20. Don’t tell me that it’s impossible
Create a 6 word memoir
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23. Do we encourage young people to make mistakes? How could we be better?
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24. Do we give too
much feedback to
students?
Is it the right type?
Is it useful?
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25. Type Frequency What does it look like?
Light touch
Once every 4 lessons to show that work
has been seen and to identify obvious
communication errors. Check the quality of
presentation.
Green Pen:
Pick up obvious errors; check presentation; level of work.
S (x3 or 5): you have spelt the word wrong and need to re-write 3 time (if it is an
unfamiliar word) or 5 times (if it is a familiar word).
P: you have missed out or used a punctuation mark incorrectly.
G: your sentence does not make sense / it has not been written correctly.
Feedback
Sheet
Once per progress check. This is a
chance for students to reflect on their
progress since the last Progress Check.
Either: Feedback Sheets stuck inside the front cover of the exercise book filled out.
or:
Feedback Stamp used
FFT (Feed
forward time)
After an assessment, at least once per
progress check. This allows students time
to engage with your feedback.
Students will have responded to comments or made corrections / redrafted. Identify
these by using Progress Purple pens / highlighter / stickers.
Verbal
marking
On-going. This form of feedback should be
a feature of every lesson.
An abbreviation to show that assessment took place or feedback was given during the
lesson. Student marking in Red pen.
• VF: verbal feedback - green stamp
• PA: peer assessment
• SA: self- assessment
• LM: ‘live’ whole class marking
• TA: target achieved
• I: independent work
Learning Goal sheets accessible to
students – front cover of exercise
book.
All feedback by teachers in green.
All feedback by students in red.
Progress Purple identifies Feed
Forward Time
Feedback effect size = 0.73
Making feedback visible @ Patcham High School
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26. Feedforward Time4 January 2016
1. Check your book for purple dots.
2. Correct / complete / redo work.
3. Stick in any sheets
4. Choose a target to write in your WID:
a) I will ensure that I avoid Banned Words, using
geographical terms
b) I will expand on answers using connectives
c) I need to consistently use data to support my
answers
d) I need to give balanced answers, for example
writing about winter and summer.
e) I need to write about the effects on groups of
people
f) I need to revise the sequence of a depression
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27. Feedforward
Question Score Topic to revise
1 a (i) /1 Completion of graph
1 a (ii) / 2 Reading a climate graph
2 a /1 Identifying depressions and
anticyclones
2 b /4 Weather in a depression
2 c /4 Weather in an anticyclone and
how affects people
3 /4 LADO – effects on climate
Total /16
1. Fill out this grid based
on your test:
2. Fill out your Grade
Tracker
What went well?
EBI: To reach the next Grade on Thursday, what do you have to revise?
WID: How will tyou do this? E.g. mind map LADO. Use SAM Learning/ revision guide / BBC Bitesize tests
3. Fill this out:
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28. EBI:
• Read the question, e.g. TWO reasons for the differences; refer to FIGURES in
your answer.
• Mixed up anticyclones and depressions.
• Remember to write PEE
• Be more specific – so what? Name groups of people, link to the question.
• Didn’t know LADO
• Didn’t know sequence of depression
A – 15
B – 13
C - 11
D – 8
E – 6
F – 4
G - 2
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39. Imagine you are a journalist sent to
report on the eruption:
1. How do you pronounce
Eyjafjallajökull?
2. What does it mean in English?@davidErogers
46. 4 January, 2016 What are the USA’s borders like?
USA / Canada Border
Scary 1 5 10 Safe
Protected 1 5 10 Unprotected
Cold 1 5 10 Hot
Rural 1 5 10 Urban
Rich 1 5 10 Poor
Full 1 5 10 Empty
Attractive 1 5 10 Ugly
Interesting 1 5 10 Boring
Add any other words to the circle:
USA / Mexico Border
Scary 1 5 10 Safe
Protected 1 5 10 Unprotected
Cold 1 5 10 Hot
Rural 1 5 10 Urban
Rich 1 5 10 Poor
Full 1 5 10 Empty
Attractive 1 5 10 Ugly
Interesting 1 5 10 Boring
Add any other words to the circle:
In your exercise book. Use these adjectives to write a 50 word description of each
border
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47. Geography in the news: What questions do you have about this image?
Can you guess what’s going on?
What?
When?
Who?
Where?
Why?
Where on earth is Rochina and what is it like to live there?
Monday, 04 January 2016
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48. Learning objectives
• Interpret geographical information in order to describe
Rochina in detail, using geographical words and data.
• Make a conclusion based on information.
• Write about different points of view.
• Make links to other geographical topics.
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50. Where is Rochina?
N
England’s Training
Base
1
Write a description on the
sheet:
• Continent
• Country
• Cardinal
• City
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51. What is Rochina Like?
Scary 1 5 10 Safe
Protected 1 5 10 Unprotected
Flat 1 5 10 Steep
Rural 1 5 10 Urban
Rich 1 5 10 Poor
Full 1 5 10 Empty
Attractive 1 5 10 Ugly
Interesting 1 5 10 Boring
Add any other words to the circle:
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52. Stick in both images and annotate them, writing about both positive and
negative aspects of Rochina’s quality of life
Where on earth is Rochina and what is it like to live there?
Monday, 04 January
2016
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53. Using the Atlas, create a ‘Brazil Basics’ summary that compares the Brazil
to the UK
1. Use the Atlas to find out the development indicators (or use your
phone to find out more up-to-date data)
2. Fill in the table.
3. Write a comparison
Where on earth is Rochina and what is it like to live there?
Monday, 04 January 2016
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54. favela Rochina
environment urban
population LEDC
steep North, South,
infrastructure communications
sprawling crime
pride
in addition to likewise
on the other hand unlike
whereas contrasting to
however despite
because so as to
therefore
Rochina is located in…
The favela is most famous for….
Its main sights are……
The area is surrounded by the following physical features…
When in the favela, a person would be surrounded by…
The landscape of Rochina is very…..
There are mixed feelings about Rochina……
Officially, the favela has a population of 70,000, but in
reality…
Evidence to support me includes…
The decision of the Army to take over the area is…
Some may disagree / agree because…
Stuff
Things
It
People
Q: What is Rochina like and what is it like to live there?
ocabulary onnectives
peners anned
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56. What’s the mystery topic?
Astounding new figures show record numbers of migrants are
crossing the world in search of better lifestyles.
Should they be welcomed?
Are they parasites?
Or should they all go back to where they came from?
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64. How could we use
this map to develop
an enquiry?
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65. Imagine this is your
house. Describe how
you would be feeling.
Imagine this was your
house. Describe how you
would be feeling..
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66. Do now: In your books, draw what you think is in the rest of this picture…
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67. 5 mins, group voice, EXPLAIN what you think is happening here…
One volunteer who had been helping with flood defence on the Elbe in Magdeburg
stopped for a bit of a rest.@davidErogers
68. Photo Credit used through Creative Commons
‘…there was a clear tendency amongst best teachers to see
the power of the humdrum, the everyday.’
Practice Perfect, Lemov, D; Woolway E; Yezzi, K p5-6
73. “Your are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more
amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here
to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.”
Woodrow Wilson.
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74. “Every decision you make, from what you eat to
what you do with your time tonight, turns you into
who you are tomorrow, and the day after that.
Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting
yourself into that person. You may not get exactly
where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing
things that suit you in a profession you believe in.
Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult
you don't want to become.”
Commander Chris Hadfield
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77. Image Source via Flickr and Creative Commons
‘The videos you see are delightful, but they’re nothing like the
reality of being weightless.’
Chris Hadfield, quoted here.
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79. http://daviderogers.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com Great for Creative Commons images
www.slideshare.net youtube for PPT files good for peer assessment
www.wordle.net Word clouds
www.surveymonkey.com Get pupil voice
GE-Graph
www.sln.org.uk/geography
http://olliebray.com
Change is inevitable - except from a
vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher