Being a teacher was always a childhood dream which I achieved at an early age. My career has led me to teach some amazing students and to specialise in the Special Education area. My passion is ensuring that all students, no matter their ability, are able to access a great education.
Being a teacher was always a childhood dream which I achieved at an early age. My career has led me to teach some amazing students and to specialise in the Special Education area. My passion is ensuring that all students, no matter their ability, are able to access a great education.
As an introductory lesson to studying History, students analyse a "murder" that had been committed on the school grounds over the school holidays. Students after reading and discussing all the "facts", need to ascertain who killed Harold?
The original sheet had school leaders as the suspects, which the students enjoyed immensely. Students asked to interview the suspects and the school leaders were open to coming in to give an alias. Before interrogating the school leaders, students generated a list of questions to ask, which were then adjusted according to information that the students heard.
After hearing the information and reevaluating the evidence, students were then asked to reassess their original assumption - stating why they had changed their point of view. This was then related to how historians have to change their point of view on an event or period of time according to new evidence that is discovered.
Students read a short passage on how man evolved and moved out of Africa. There are three level's of questions, each level more difficult than the last.
With each level the amount of information required increases.
Students can also highlight where the answer to the information is found.