My second presentation to the recent Cardiff Teachmeet was supposed to accompanied by the slides below, but for whatever reason the filter wouldn’t let Google Docs through, so I scribbled down what I could remember and just talked about some of the stuff that I’d been doing and why I thought it was important. In […]
Handing it over : Part 2 (not quite so sucessful!)
Yesterday I wrote about my plans for handing some control of the curriculum in my year 9 History classes to the students and the first of three activities, the personal project on any 20th century topic. Today, I’m going to look at the second activity which didn’t work quite as well! In our revised schemes […]
Handing it over – Part 1 (success)
In this and the next blog post I’m going to be looking at the first two of my three attempts this year to hand over some control of the curriculum to my students. Why? One of the things that seem to be increasingly important both with a skills focussed curriculum and with the massive growth […]
What do you want to learn today – World War 1 Treasure Hunt
Given that we spend half as much time on some topics than we used to in History, we need new ways of teaching some old topics. One example is WW1. In the ‘Old Model’, the teacher would work their way through a series of topics. The ‘old model’ reaction to less time is to teach […]