Coauthor of Organise Ideas, The Extended Mind in Action and Year One | Vice Principal and Geography Teacher at Healing Academy (Harbour Learning Trust).
Here is a thread containing all ten of our 'Five Ways' one-pagers. I've included the links to
@teacherhead
's original blog. You'll also find a PDF of each one-pager; PDF files are better for printing.
I am currently working with
@teacherhead
on transforming his Five Ways To blog series into one-pagers. Here is the first, which outlines five methods to weave reading into the curriculum.
Here is a new one-pager I have created. It captures how combining different strategies can increase teachers' checking for understanding routines.
Link to hi-res PDF here:
@Doug_Lemov
@teacherhead
@adamboxer1
Here we go. Number six in our (
@teacherhead
and me) mini-series is Five Ways to Build Confidence. The link to the original blog is here: …
We will be packaging all of the one-pagers into a mini-booklet at the end for anyone to download.
Here are my three latest one-pagers I created in collaboration with
@MaryMyatt
,
@ChrisMoyse
and
@PepsMccrea
.
I am currently working with a few amazing people to create some one-page summaries.
I have created a one-pager for one of my all-time favourite blog posts,
@teacherhead
’s The art of modelling… it’s all in the handover.
Download a HQ PDF from our website (
@olicav
)
I DO | WE DO | YOU DO
#edublogshare
Task completion is a poor proxy for learning; this is something I wished I'd known in my early years of teaching. Here is a one-pager I have created for
@PepsMccrea
, summarising his notion of Backwards Planning.
I am passionate about developing students’ reading competence because as a youngster, I wasn't a particularly strong reader. This one-pager I created with
@teacherhead
, summarises five ways to weave reading into the curriculum. Tom’s original blog is here:
A couple of weeks back
@researchEDDur
, I posed the question “how many students in your school can go a whole week and never be asked to verbally share their thinking?”.
Here are five ways to scaffold students’ discussions & verbal responses.
@teacherhead
🚨🚨🚨 I have the most exciting news to announce... I and
@olicav
have signed a contract with
@JohnCattEd
to produce our book, Organise Ideas - Graphic Organisers for Meaningful Learning, due to be published in the first half of 2021
Students need to know 20,000 words when they leave secondary. Beyond the most common 6,000 words, less frequently used words are more likely to be encountered through reading (
@ThinkReadTweet
)
Here are five ways to weave reading into the curriculum by
@teacherhead
and me.
Number 7 in the series is Five Ways to: Enrich learning for everyone, not the few.
@teacherhead
’s original post is here:
It is such a joy to work with Tom on this mini-project.
It's been a bit of a wait for number 8 in our (
@teacherhead
and me) Five Ways to mini-series, but here it is.
Five ways to secure progress through modelling.
Link to the original post:
Have you found our (
@teacherhead
and me) ‘Five Ways’ one-pagers useful? If so, don't miss this. Here are all ten in a free-to-download booklet, all with links to the original blog posts; perfect for busy teachers looking for concise bites of CPD.
Retrieval Practice and the Art of Schema Building - my research, musings and why I would argue that retrieval practice is the most impactful tool at our disposal
Exciting news!
@MrGoodwin23
has produced a superb new poster that summaries key messages from the Pedagogical Delusions chapters in ‘The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back’.
It’s available here as a free, downloadable PDF:
I love this blog... changed the way I teach tropical storms and gave me the inspiration to create this... linking GAC to ecosystem distribution and TS distribution/formation
Here is a one-pager I created before our Five Ways collaboration. It captures what
@teacherhead
describes as the critical phase of modelling: the guided practice stage.
Link to
@teacherhead
's original blog:
I am currently working with
@teacherhead
on transforming his Five Ways To blog series into one-pagers. Here is the first, which outlines five methods to weave reading into the curriculum.
**NEW POST**
Must Read
How to move from fact based retrieval to higher-order retrieval practice
Retrieval Practice for Higher Order Thinking: Making Inflexible Knowledge Flexible
Thank you to
@effortfuleduktr
for reviewing and the continued support.
Who doesn't like a freebie?
@teacherhead
and I created this little visual summary of ten teaching and learning themes/ideas. You can download each individually or as a neatly packaged free-to-download booklet. Enjoy
Here is a thread containing all ten of our 'Five Ways' one-pagers. I've included the links to
@teacherhead
's original blog. You'll also find a PDF of each one-pager; PDF files are better for printing.
I had the pleasure of watching
@KateJones_teach
at
@researchEDDur
deliver a session about retrieval practice myths. Here is a summary I created of her insights. PDF here
Few screens from the work booklet I have been working very hard on. Almost complete and then need to proof read before launching next week.
Thank you to all of the people who continue to influence my work
@olicav
@ThatBenRanson
@m_chiles
@EnserMark
all feedback welcome
***COMPETITION***
To celebrate the recent publication of our (
@olicav
and me) book, Organise Ideas, we are giving away two copies.
If you want to be in with a chance to win, retweet this tweet. We will draw two winners at 7 pm on Sunday 3rd October.
Here are all ten of our (
@teacherhead
and me) one-pagers all in one place. Plus, there is the free-to-download booklet and links to Tom’s original blogs
Thank you to everyone that has shown an interest in these and shared them.
Here is a thread containing all ten of our 'Five Ways' one-pagers. I've included the links to
@teacherhead
's original blog. You'll also find a PDF of each one-pager; PDF files are better for printing.
The new term is approaching. Here is our free-to-download Five Ways booklet containing ten one-page summaries of everyday teaching ideas. Please share freely with colleagues.
Here is a thread containing all ten of our 'Five Ways' one-pagers. I've included the links to
@teacherhead
's original blog. You'll also find a PDF of each one-pager; PDF files are better for printing.
Organise Ideas is due to publish in 56 days and is now available to preorder on Amazon
A highlight of the book will undoubtedly be the 50 plus teacher contributions.
@olicav
@JohnCattEd
@JohncattUSA
I have my pupils reading more than ever. Whole class reading, choral responses, prereading activities, study of etymology and the use of graphic organisers, as a tool for meaningful learning. I am loving being back in the classroom.
Fellow geographers - what do you think to this idea I’ve had? Want to show the influence of climate/global atmospheric circulation on biome formation. Going to do a lot of visualiser work and retrieval on GAV prior to using. Would welcome feedback
What a year. I've been so fortunate to work with some incredibly talented people, and in so doing, I have grown as a person and professional. Thank you to everyone who has shown me support and taken the time to listen to or read my work.
🚨🚨🚨 NEW POST 🚨🚨🚨
Organising Knowledge: Ausubel's Advance organisers
How students organise their knowledge affects their learning. Most don't have the organisational structures to do so meaningfully. How can advance organisers help?
I love this blog... changed the way I teach tropical storms and gave me the inspiration to create this... linking GAC to ecosystem distribution and TS distribution/formation
This is how I see one-pagers — a tool to provoke conversation. Here Ross and his colleagues are putting our(
@teacherhead
and me) Five Ways series to good use. Link to all of the one-pagers is here:
There is a lot of talk about oracy and talk-for-learning right now.
Here's a one-page summary by
@teacherhead
and me about how verbal scaffolds can boost students' performance.
1/2 Teachers who take the time to make links between concepts, ideas, and across topics, are making learning, meaningful. Column 1. Pupils review the learning of the current topic. The remaining columns are used to make links with ideas and concepts from previous topics. A column
Want to win a copy of our new book (
@Emma_Turner75
, me and
@olicav
), The Extended Mind in Action? Simply retweet this tweet, and I'll select a winner on Wednesday at 9 pm.
@JohnCattEd
I am working on some revision resources for our year 11s. What are your favourite/most effective strategies? Have you found certain strategies that work best for your subject?
I've just created and uploaded our OI Book Summary Poster
#4
— Organising Organisers. You can find an HQ version of this poster and other resources here: .
@olicav
Earlier in the year, I watched
@MaryMyatt
deliver the keynote
@researchEDWarr
. Afterwards, I felt an overwhelming need to graphically capture the key takeaways. Here it is. Shout out to
@ChrisMoyse
, “helping people improve, not prove”.
The uber gifted
@MrGoodwin23
has created this cool graphic of my session for
@researchEDWarr
Some of the things that are overrated
And some of the things that are underrated
My wonderful wife arranged a small surprise gathering this afternoon to celebrate the publication of Organise Ideas. Yes, she had an OI balloon made for me.
**NEW BLOG**
Using Graphic Organisers to Support Reading and Writing During Remote Learning.
The post includes a double-page spread, taken from our (
@olicav
) forthcoming book, Organise Ideas: Thinking by Hand, Extending the Mind
🚨🚨🚨 THREAD ABOUT GRAPHIC ORGANISERS
1/10 Some sceptics would argue GO are difficult to create, time-consuming, and therefore not worth the effort. Using examples of my own students work, I will offer some practical steps to alleviate some of these concerns.
Thank you,
@lcgeography
, for answering my questions while I was working on this diagram. You are a true gent and a fountain of tomographic knowledge. Also, thank you
@ThatBenRanson
and
@geotayler
for your inspiration.
#Geographyteachers
, please do share you feedback + or -
So much satisfaction in creating these. Continue to refine my skills as I reread
@olicav
dual coding with teachers. Totally stripping back the irrelevant load and trying to avoid students suffering from the transient information effect
Cooking 2 Indian dishes tonight. Here are 2 Graphic Organisers about them. The first is a double spray to compare the 2 dishes. The second is a flow spray to illustrate the cooking sequence
@olicav
and I are going to be writing about GO for meaningful learning in our new book
Folding frenzy revision. Page one: Unassisted retrieval of topic, followed by adding from revision aids. Fold page in half and produce a mind map (Not allowed to open) to condense. Fold again list five key terms or facts. Fold again creat questions to ask self or peers in future
Low effort (teacher) retrieval taken from
@87History
Retrieval practice book. 5 mins record as much knowledge about a given topic (no support - cop column). Follow by 5 minutes working with peers to record anything missed or not had time to record (robber column)
I would like to create a bank of reflective questions/discussion points for when colleagues are doing curriculum work. For example, “what do I want my students to have learnt by the end of the unit, term, or key stage?”
Can all of the fabulous curriculum thinkers help me?
***NEW VIDEO POST***
Step-By-Step Video Tutorial: How To Create Professional Looking Documents for The Purpose of Learning
How I use Powerpoint to create professional looking resources, such as booklets, inspired by the research of
@olicav
I recently recorded a podcast with the wonderful
@MissFolorunsho
. We discussed my top tips for group work. Here is a poster summarising the main highlights. It is not intended to be a definitive list; rather, these are simply some strategies I have found to be effective.
1. Here is the concept map, my project partner and good friend, Oliver, was referring to. The power of any graphic organiser is in the generative process — the pupils creating them. When creating for the first time they can be difficult. But modelling, partially completed...
I am blown away with the concept maps
@MrGoodwin23
is sending me. This morning, I received one on Nepal. Reading this Advance Organiser, I felt I had a rapid sense of the main points & their inter-connections. David had made his expert schema available to my novice one.
Here are my three latest one-pagers I created in collaboration with
@MaryMyatt
,
@ChrisMoyse
and
@PepsMccrea
.
I am currently working with a few amazing people to create some one-page summaries.
🚨Last month I tweeted this👇 I am happy to report not only do we have a bank of 1500 plus retrieval based questions for AQA (Edexcel almost complete) but we also have agreed to share these with
@Carousel_Learn
where they will raise the level of retrieval practice in geography🚨
Calling all
#geographyteacher
who preferably teach AQA (But doesn’t have to be). I want to work with a number of teachers to create a retrieval roulette for our subject like that of
@adamboxer1
and the science community.
1/5 Old me versus new me👇 been asked a lot recently about use of colour and is it a No No. The answer is no it isn’t a no no...restraint is the answer, don’t use it unnecessarily like in example 1. In example 2 the topographic map couldn’t be interpreted without being in colour
I like to use sentence stems with my students. One of my go-to stems is “experts argue | suggest | say etc. One of my year 11 Ss gifted me this fabulous card to say thank you for teaching him.
Wife to be (who is currently producing an A1 poster presentation for her post grad course): “can you do that dual coding thingy I see you doing to my work?” (Her words) couple hours later 💁🏼
@olicav