Fanatic about all things Geog | Teaching in London | @CamEdFac PGCE | RGS-IBG scholar ~ a feed for all the things I’d like to try/have tried in the classroom
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1/ THREAD: Puerto Rico & Hurricane Maria (Part 2)
In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico & caused unprecedented damage, left residents without electricity for nearly a year & exacerbated an existing fiscal crisis. The concept of “slow violence” helps understand these events.
30 years of a rivers life in a few seconds - Showing the Padma river in Bangladesh as a dynamic erosional amazing visual for the classroom then our studying #meanders and #rivers#geography#geographyteacher#edutwitter
The Global Carbon Bucket 2020
Climate change stops getting worse when CO₂ emissions get to zero!
#ClimateAction must put us on a clear path to zero emissions
https://t.co/ycYcuFSPdF
Sending a positive message home may actually do more for my mood than it does for the students and parents that receive them, especially when sent after dealing with something not so positive. Really nice to end the day this way too. #geographyteacher
Stretch and Challenge was something I struggled on and off with during my ITT. I recently read Mike Gershon's '50 Quick Ways to Stretch and Challenge More-Able Students' and found it a great help for ideas applicable to history lessons. Drop me a reply if you would like a copy!
In an attempt to get my A Level students to read a little more widely I am using article analysis tasks for homework which will then be Speed Dated in class - where I randomly choose which students will have to talk to me.
Although no speed dating jsut yet.
My GCSE classes have really taken to my structured chains of reasoning templates - simple, yet effective 👍🏻 #teamgeog The B&W version may not look as nice as the colour charts (see tweet below), but if it works it works
I have seen a lot of NQTs tweeting about getting organised for next year (congratulations everyone 😊 You’re going to be fab) so I thought I would share some ideas that may or may not be useful to you... Please feel free to share your own below.
Amazing and accessible #geography content & I’m only on episode 2! Ep1 on Iceland with a focus on tectonics and clean energy and Ep2 on water #geographyteacher
https://t.co/MCBYO8Eerq
Simon Reeve on ‘why geography matters’: ‘now, more than ever before, in many ways, it’s the story of us, the story of our planet, the politics, the people, the landscape. It’s who we are and why we are like that’