Developing a primary secondary fieldwork collaboration

‘It’s not about fieldwork, it’s about geography, learning and a real audience’

Developing student leadership through fieldwork

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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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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

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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