"Sir, Can I..." - Developing choice in Historical Enquiry. SHP Conference 2013
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“Sir, can I...?”Developing choice in historical enquiry
School History Project Conference 2013
Dave StaceyImage: Clifton J on Flickr CC Licensed
Please add your views to the flipcharts around the room
Aims
• Consider the limitations of some of our current practice so that we can identify which ideas might work for us
• To investigate some possible models to encourage and allow student choice in your class so that we can discuss their possible merits
• (To understand why you’d want to do so in the first place so that you can decide if you should have gone to another workshop!)
• To have a go at designing a ‘tweeked’ unit so that we can learn from experience and each other
If you could sum up in just one word what you hope your
students leave your classes with at the end of the hour / term /
year - what would it be?
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
• I can’t possibly cover everything
• I should be encouraging curiosity
• It is more important that I model learning than I model knowledge
• The best learning comes from real situations
Strong evidence in favourStrong evidence against
Learning Styles
Strong evidence in favour
Where would you put them?
Key questions?
• Who are you aiming at?
• How much choice to students have in what tasks they complete
• Where are you pitching? Top? Middle? Bottom?
• Does each student know where to go next?
• AfL + Feedback
Thinkers Keys
http://thinking-egs.wikispaces.com/Tony+Ryan
#1 - Pick something that interests you from this period. Present it
however you want, but you won’t be there to
explain it.
#2 - Research project Generate questions
Research and answer one: sheet of A4
Peer Assessment Second question
Teacher assessment
• Lesson 1 - What do we remember about Medieval life? Textbook challenge - what was different in Tudor times? (Homework: Visit a museum or museum website - bring back a cool idea)
• Research project
• FURNITURE MOVE - What have we learned about the Tudors? what have we learned about museums? Students get into groups (or work alone) - make a proposal for a museum exhibit
• Produce the work! All had to be on display by the end of the lesson. After school other teachers + students came to see. Photos taken and posted online.
• Evaluation of their work.
• EBI - More time to produce exhibits. Display over a lesson to allow them time to see each others work.
Peter Lee - ‘A lot of guess work goes on’ - Children’s understanding of historical accounts. Teaching History 92
Project CHATA
“We did trials with science novices in which they had a couple of hours of spaced learning and did as well as if they had had two years of science teaching.”
Ewan McIntosh - NoToshDesign Thinking
Image: http://dukelyer.wordpress.com
Googleable or Ungoogleable questions
Immersion and provocation