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I've been teaching for 17 years. I'm good at it. I enjoy it. Can I get an extra £30k for the next five years?
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By popular demand here's a link to a PDF version of my A4 foldable revision booklet (with folding and cutting instructions). Inspired by
@C_Hendrick
@TeacherToolkit
@RetrieveLearn
&
@AceThatTest
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Revision skills booklet ready to give out To Y11 with flash cards etc after Christmas to kick-start revision for GCSEs. With thanks to
@TeacherToolkit
,
@C_Hendrick
,
@RetrieveLearn
and
@AceThatTest
for the ideas.
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I went to an open evening tonight as a parent where every single member of staff was engaged in some sort of game/activity with students that they don't do in lessons. So much so that I came away with absolutely no idea of curricula, setting or anything else for that matter.
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Another display linked to our curriculum. We use these books and more to inform our curriculum, either directly with excerpts or indirectly in planning. We also display books prominently within each classroom, which can be discussed and/or borrowed.
#geographyteacher
#Geography
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If you are teaching the formation of a hurricane soon here is how I do it.
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A reminder: If you are watching Slumming It with any class I would recommend this instead. A far more balanced (despite using the word 'slum') look at the issues of rapid urban growth in Mumbai.
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New Blog: How I explain the formation of a hurricane.
@EnserMark
@GeographyTom9
@m_chiles
@ploguey
@Jennnnn_x
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If anyone is showing 'Slumming It' for the challenges of rapid/hyper-urbansation in Mumbai can I suggest this instead.
#geography
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If anyone is explaining the distribution of biomes then here is how I do it.
#geographyteacher
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It’s hurricane season in the Atlantic. Here’s how I explain the formation of a hurricane to my classes.
#geographyteacher
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I'd imagine
#geographyteachers
are going to explain the formation of a hurricane at some point soon. Here's how I do it (and have done for a number of years now). Hope it helps for those that haven't seen it (or have forgotten it).
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One of my Y13 students has too much time on his hands. He’s written a response to a volcanic hazards question in an odd font. I’ve looked at the menu bar and it turns out he’s written it in.....Monserrat.
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Need some help in breaking down your explanation of a hurricane at KS3/4? Here’s how I do it:
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Knowledge organiser and parent newsletter sorted for our unit on rivers in Y7.
#geography
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First topics of our new 3 year KS3 now fully resourced for each year group. RAG sheets (I like them, but know others don't), knowledge organiser and parent newsletter all done.
#geography
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Are you looking for some articles or podcasts for yourself or your students? I made a start on this list before lockdown and add to it any time I see anything of value.
#geographyteacher
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When studying flood hydrographs I find it useful to use live data. Especially after a recent rainfall event. You can find them all in one place using the link below.
#geographyteacher
River and sea levels in England -
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We're adding readings to our homework at Key Stage 3 next year. Here's some that have been selected so far to enrich our topics.
#geography
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There’s a reason why our students do well in the extended writing at GCSE and A Level. Consistent practice and feedback from the first topic in Year 7. This is from the second lesson of Y10.
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Seen a few peoples takes on how they catch up students that have missed a lesson due to absence. This is how we do it. A slide with three key takeaways from the lesson. Four identical slides printed 4 to a page, sliced then glued in absentee books in the lesson.
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A really good animation showing the change in soil moisture budgets as a result of Storm Babet. Would be useful for A Level Water and Carbon.
#geographyteacher
One of the reasons we're worried about
#StormCiar
án is because of the loss of 'capacity' within the soil as a result of
#StormBabet
. This animation shows how the soil moisture deficit changed across England and Wales 10 days ago - the dark blues showing 'saturated' catchments
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Just finished our unit on Haiti with Y9. Lots of 💡 moments. Connects all the dots of three years worth of learning in Geography.
#geography
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And so it begins...
Getting my thoughts together for the first in (hopefully) a series of 'How to' posters on topics. Useful for me, my department and, hopefully, others too.
#geography
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These images are INSANE! The mind boggles at the variation in discharge over a relatively small timescale.
These flood monitoring cameras demonstrate the extent of the rainfall and just how quickly waters rose, causing major damage during the recent
#seqfloods
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Positive feedback loop
Fantastic
#geography
diagram illustrating the effects of thawing permafrost
Permafrost thaws due to rising temperatures
Microbes in the soil decompose producing
#methane
, 80 times more powerful than CO2.
#geographyteacher
Source-
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Right, it's done. Before I turn it into a PDF to share and start on my next one is there anything that should be added, amended or removed?
#geography
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Has Vietnam benefited from globalisation? A Y7 lesson in two resources. Guided reading and an extended writing planning sheet.
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Final topic of Y7. Was Malthus right? I love population geography. Next year we’ve made a few tweaks to this by including an excerpt from 10 Billion as a challenging reading for homework.
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How to...explain biome distribution. New one for me after moving to Edexcel B this year.
@m_chiles
@EnserMark
@GeographyTom9
#geography
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Really enjoying these stripped back structure strips with Y9-11. Allows for planning based on questioning and forming a structure together.
#geographyteacher
#geography
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Thanks
@EduCaiti
for the heads-up last week about
@Gapminder
population pyramids. Used them this week when looking at factors affecting the extent of globalisation in different countries with Y12. Side-by-side, year by year comparison is a game-changer.
#geographyteacher
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Last week my son came home from school telling me that I was wrong. Brasilia is not the capital city of Brazil, but Rio instead, because his teacher said so. Newsround just repeated the same error. Why do people not know the capital of Brazil?
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My random musings on geography have gained me some more followers of late who might not be aware of my magnum opus.
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A graphic to update your case study of core and periphery India
#edexcel
#geography
#geographyteacher
One of the most consequential statistic passed by without much noise.
India's total fertility rate fell below population replacement rate to 2.0, with many states far below that level, thanks to effective campaigns around family planning & contraception.
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We’ve spent some time building up assess skills with KS3 then leading up to essay answers.
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So glad we changed from Katrina and Aila for hurricane case studies at KS4. Looking at Matthew links well with what we’ve studied in KS3 and allows levels of development from one 🌀 to be explored clearly.
#Geography
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One of the most tiring things as a
#geographyteacher
is trying to source and then keep on top of case studies. Textbooks just don’t cut it, especially when the a case study amounts to a small box consisting of about 100 words.
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Population and demography should be a specific part of the GCSE (and potentially A level). Understanding both - past, present and future - is a key to understanding the coming decades and centuries.
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All the planning that goes into fieldwork is a sunk cost. Fieldwork is great and I love doing it, but you never get the time back from planning it. Nothing makes way to allow you to do it. Everything else on the to do list is still there and then some.
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This is an excellent image to use when discussing the role of colonialism/neo-colonialism/dependency in development topics.
#geographyteacher
This map shows the railways of Africa and is colour-coded by country. Decent connectivity to a major port is crucial to unlock economic potential. Great work by
@researchremora
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First time trying these out today. Minimalist structure strips have worked well.
#geography
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Following on from the topic sequence for KS3 i'm now playing with different ways of illustrating lesson sequences within a topic. So far...
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I really enjoyed making these with my Y12 class a few years back when teaching Changing Places. Really got them to think about what makes a place unique. Thrilled that HSBC picked up what we were doing and printed them for us.
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Last three GCSE option numbers:
2021: 67
2022: 107
2023: 160
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This should be a weekly homework for A level students studying water and carbon. Every week has something that is spec linked. An added bonus is that the case studies are detailed and current.
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Hive mind - there was a website where you could hover over areas of the UK and magic would happen to produce a population pyramid of that area. Does anyone know this magical website I speak of?
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Open evenings. Here's what i've found works:
1. A display matching your chat, e.g. a curriculum map.
2. Materials you use in lessons, e.g. maps, books, fieldwork equipment etc.
3. Student books. Not just Y7, but others too.
4. Showing a love for your subject.
Thats it.
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I used to dread climate graphs with any year group, let alone Y7. Having a visualiser, same graph paper and taking it step-by-step has produced some awesome results. No colours yet, but they’re on order, much to the historians guffaw!
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This is by far the best alternative example of the Swiss Cheese Model I’ve seen. Frequently the models I’ve seen deal in the abstract or unrelatable. This is a prefect as a relatable non-tectonic example!
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If you teach carbon at A level you should really buy this book if you haven’t already. Many, many chapters that can be the basis of a lesson or an additional reading. All are short-form and accessible.
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Our Y7-11 curriculum map, which we have displayed in every classroom. We’re pretty pleased with what we’ve got and the understanding of the world a student gains by the end of KS3, but realise it’s a working document. It’s even got icons!
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#Geography
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@fiona_616
Sure. Here’s another. It’s a generic stricture strip. Instead of giving loads of sentence starters we talk through the paragraphs and the Point, Develop and Assess is ticked off as they go along. In Y7/Y8 we model writing paragraphs, but by Y9 they are able to go solo.
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The misconception that river velocity decreases from upper to lower course is a tough one to remove.
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Thinking about topics to cover at KS3? What order do you want them to go in? How do you want to structure your curriculum? Here's the outline of how we did it and saw GCSE numbers go from 67 to 160 in two years.
#geography
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#curriculum
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Looking forward to reading this to help inform our hazards units.
@EnserMark
it has a chapter in Haiti, which might be useful for your regional study.
#geography
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How else can you judge development? Using Dollar Street to move beyond just data.
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We use this when looking at rivers for long and cross profile work on the Tees. Might be of use for other rivers too.
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The season has now started in the North Atlantic. This might be of help in explaining the formation of a hurricane.
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#geography
#aqa
#edexcel
#ocr
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Improving retrieval through the use of challenge cards at GCSE
#geographyteacher
#geography
@EnserMark
@GeographyTom9
@Jennnnnn_x
@GeogMarsh
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We replanned our weather and climate SoL this year for first teaching next year. Theory for each weather hazard followed by case studies. Mapped out against our curriculum key concepts and homework too.
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How do your concepts link to your topics and lessons? This is how ours work.
#geography
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This will be given to my Y13 when we (hopefully) return to school in January when we evaluate alternatives to fossil fuels.
#geographyteacher
#Geography
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Really good episode about the role of oceans in the carbon cycle. Some pieces that you can add to your knowledge of the three pumps particularly, but also mitigations/adaptations as well.
#geographyteacher
#edexcel
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I see textbooks chat is in vogue. Here’s my thoughts for geography textbooks:
•often prohibitively expensive
•don’t cover all the spec
•case studies are out of date as soon as published (and often weak anyway)
•useful for cover
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Nice little case study to use when teaching isostatic adjustment as part of coasts.
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Of use for Water Cycle at A Level.
#geography
#geographyteacher
Meteorologists around the world are closely watching the development of a
#LaNina
pattern over the Pacific.
But what is it and what does it mean for the world’s weather?
Here's Chris Fawkes with more👇
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@missgeog92
Hybrid. If it’s a double page of low tariff Q’s then get them all done double page per student. If it’s anything above 4 marks do one at a time. Never do paper by paper. It’s ineffectual as you can’t remember the minutia of a whole mark scheme.
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If anyone looks at China for any topics, but especially for population, then this new video is a good one to show. Shout out to my colleague
@geografield
for the finders fee.
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This Belgian box from Lidl is really doing the trick of letting me see a range of Belgian styles and making me want to seek out more. This is another boozy offering that is hitting the spot.
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It’s a stout. It’s strong. It tastes of marshmallow. What’s not to like.
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Human geography of the UK generalisations that can get in the sea: the north isn’t full of poorly educated, unhealthy people on deaths door struggling to get to grips with the closure of heavy industry and a lack of FDI.
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Got a new job at a new school today - Deputy Faculty Leader of Humanities. Moving on from pastoral leadership after 10 years. Can’t wait to get started in September.
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