I’ve received a lot of praise for my scheme of work in observations, it has evolved over the last 5 years and I’m now really happy with my standard lesson planning structure. All new lessons slot into this format (for all subjects). This example is for an intro lesson to Tectonics as AS. Update December 2018 - just been observed, outstanding again - planning, recall, stretch, questioning, english and maths, AfL AoL E&D and British Values all included. Update Oct 2019 - Learning Walk observation outstanding - lesson shows evidence of detailed planning and focus on individual learner progression.

I use this in my planning phase when I’m a bit stuck, have lots of ideas and am not sure how to link the activities to the topic and make a coherent flowing lesson. I also try to tie in the homework at this stage so it links to the next thing or the previous thing we’ve studied. It is a variation on the famous 5 minute lesson plan, I just couldn’t get all I wanted down in 5 minutes, this takes me a bit longer but it does make me observation ready!

Use this to encourage students to consolidate notes into one place for Unit 6 Principles of Management Learning Aims A & B

Use this to encourage students to consolidate notes into one place for Unit 6 Principles of Management Learning Aims E & F

Use this to encourage students to consolidate notes into one place for Unit 6 Principles of Management Learning Aims C & D

These are so useful for AS and A Level students, they find them a good way to trigger some investigation into their notes or the text book. My most recent A*-C group found them useful in class because if the students pick a question for a classmate there is no hiding, sometimes we have to ‘phone a friend’ and see if anyone can answer it, this shows up the gaps in knowledge and we make more notes, get the old lesson powerpoint out and recap what is missing. The theme of the question can also be used with multiple command words, this builds confidence and depth of knowledge. It is handy for working through from describe, explain, assess, evaluate, describe a case study, recall the facts you remember about… to compare that with and what is your standpoint in relation to,

These are so useful for AS and A Level students, they find them a good way to trigger some investigation into their notes or the text book. My most recent A*-C group found them useful in class because if the students pick a question for a classmate there is no hiding, sometimes we have to ‘phone a friend’ and see if anyone can answer it, this shows up the gaps in knowledge and we make more notes, get the old lesson powerpoint out and recap what is missing. The theme of the question can also be used with multiple command words, this builds confidence and depth of knowledge. It is handy for working through from describe, explain, assess, evaluate, describe a case study, recall the facts you remember about… to compare that with and what is your standpoint in relation to,

Questions from across the Pearson / Edexcel Spec for A Level Geog Superpowers. Use these at home for revision one a day style or in class and bounce the questions between students. My A* - C group really found these helpful, they show up gaps in knowledge, there is no hiding and each question turns into a group discussion, recalling case studies and detail.

Really valuable resource to send home with students or to use in class, I put it on the whiteboard with this years A*-C group and we bounced questions by ‘asking a friend’ which meant there was no hiding! where we found a group weakness we made a note and did a mini recap after the students had done some of their own revision.

These questions work really well when recapping lesson content. The themes can be used with a hierarchy of command words too, describe, explain, assess, evaluate. In class my last A* to C group used an ‘ask a friend’ technique and bounced questions around the classroom and all wrote down and discussed the answers, case studies etc.

Either tackle one a day at home or use in class to bounce questions, my last group got 100% A*-C using these in revision lessons to pick a question for each other as a challenge.

Made ready for teaching on MS Teams, using breakout rooms and Classnotebook, I’ve put notes below the slides to help teachers with the Geography elements of this. Some nice independent and collaborative study activities to make this easier to teach.

Powerpoints that are MS Teams ready, using breakout rooms and class notebook on Enterprise and Innovation with 2020 links provided for research task (Pearson text book case study activity used too)

AS Geog (Edexcel) Globalisation 3.2a-c online teaching ppts Tweaked for 2021, I’ve delivered this online via MS Teams using breakout rooms and setting some of the more in depth research tasks as independent study (students upload a pic of their work to an MS Teams assignment so I can track engagement/progress). This one includes: WTO IMF Trade Blocs (up to date addressing both Brexit and RCEP references) SEZs I set the final activity (China from 1978 Open Door Policy onward) as an independent task. The students have a sub set of the slides to work through and use their own internet research to produce a one page fact file. It refers to two text books, Pearson’s own AS Geog text book and Digby which is published by Oxford University Press. I just scanned pages with my phone and shared in the ‘files section’ and class notebook for students to refer to.

AS Geog (Edexcdel) Globalisation 3.3a-c set up for remote teaching uses a range of Hyperlinks, QR Codes, Internet research activities to complete the 3.3 area of the spec on: Measuring Globalisation, TNCs Switched on/Switched off May include references to ‘Digby’ this what we call our Oxford Press Textbook, my favourite of the three available. I teach this as 2 x 1 hour blocks of online / screen MS Teams and then give them a couple of activities (Slide 13 and 37) as independent learning with a simple, take a pic and upload to Teams Assignment page where I can track engagement.

I’ve tweaked my usual lessons for online teaching using MS Teams, I try to do 2 x 1 hour contact lessons with me talking through theory, using breakout rooms and class notebook to get them thinking. Then set an independent task for them to complete for the rest of their usual timetabled lesson time. This 3.1a-c part of the spec includes: Introducing globalisation through our belongings What is globalisation Time space compression Containerisation Colonialism Diamond 9 evaluating technique (not that this is relevant in 2021 but will be next year). For independent study, I got them to do the proportional lines task from the first activity, research and improve on the timeline showing acceleration of globalisation in recent years. Seemed to go down well. They uploaded pics of their work for me to see via the Teams Assignment area so I can keep track of progress in the ‘grades’ section.