developing a primary secondary fieldwork collaboration
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‘It’s not about fieldwork, it’s about geography, learning and a real audience’
Developing student leadership through fieldwork
davidrogers.blog leahlists.co.uk
@davidErogers @leah_moo
David Rogers Leah Sharp
There is a lack of challenge in Year 7.
Think past ’they haven’t done geography.’
They come to us as excellent writers and thinkers.
Introducing #beermatgeog
Aim: to produce a replicable, embedded
sequence of lessons that meet the needs of the curriculum.
Why?
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0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Gap Non-‐FSM pupils reaching expected level FSM reaching expected level
School readinessat 5
Attainmentat 11
Attainment at 16
Why?
Why Secondary?
Lack of genuine leadership opportunities, plenty of jobs
Curriculum - Year 8, 10, 11 - revisiting local area for the depth of knowledge. Interleaving.
Revision for terminal examinations Memory theory – moving beyond re-reading and the highlighter – retrieval beats re-exposure
Revision isn’t extra but an integrated part of lesson sequences
Raise expectations
New GCSE needs a deeper understanding of fieldwork, therefore more fieldwork
Why Primary?Opportunities out of school – cultural and social capital
Knowledge of local area – expanding their contextual footprint
Writing attainment lower
Real audience is what is needed to up their game
How do I go about a geographical enquiry?
Publish
Produce your work
Select the best Information
Gather Information
Ask questions
EvaluateQuestions answered?
Criteria met?
NoYes
Start Here
Who? Where? When? Why? What? How?
What do you need to find out?How will you present the information?
BIASFor and Against
Audience
PowerPoint, Publisher, Poster, Oral, Visual, Play, podcast, Video, Report..
Improve
http://flickr.com/photos/milivoj
Teacher CPD
Does Wivelsfield display the characteristics of the rural urban fringe?
11Character of R/U Fringe
8Feedback
10 Housing Need
10Feedback
8Urban
Fieldwork Skills
Further Reasoning
Don’t build on our field!
Are we in the Rural Urban Fringe?
Fieldtrip
External Audience - Geocaching
Feedback and interleaving within secondarySecondary
Primary
Year 11 start of the lesson – characteristics of the rural-urban fringe
Year 11 agreed list
Year 4 letter
Year 8 feedback
4/23/17
Daily writingWhole school development plan Falling behindLow expectationsContinuation
Coffee Shops
Pubs
Selection of tools
Planning documents
Sharing informationMediaOutcomes
Mozilla X-ray Googles
Insanity: doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting
different results
Face to face meetings
Weather
Job changes
Teacher knowledge
Attendance
Barriers we discovered
Face to face meetings
Weather
Job changes
Teacher knowledge
Attendance
Time
‘Health and safety’
Will secondary take the results seriously?
Focus on SATs
Primary subject knowledge
Some primaries don’t do geography
Barriers from Twitter
Time
‘Health and safety’
Will secondary take the results seriously?
Focus on SATs
Primary subject knowledge
Some primaries don’t do geography
Saturday 1st July 2017Brighton
Why successful?
Well planned, embedded sequence of lessons
SLT support
Focus on learning and children
davidrogers.blog leahlists.co.uk
@davidErogers @leah_moo
#beermatgeog
Challenge: have a conversation;; come up with a plan;; commit by tweeting a selfie with a beer mat pledge
@davidErogers @leah_moo