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.
My initial thoughts are that quiz questions are created for every topic of the gcse spec (simply because that is the minimum content we will all be teaching and will have in common). Each person interested could take one topic/unit and create the relevant questions
And then all qs collated on 1 spreadsheet for our use. Depending on interest we could create more than one roulette - for individual specs etc. great way to share expertise and the workload. If interested please fill in your details on this google sheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
@goach_geogKBA@coatgal@BeingMissSpeed hi guys I need to message you regarding retrieval roulette, but it says you can not be messaged. Could you dm me so I can share further details?
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I see group work is doing the rounds again. Group work is hard to get right. As many people have already said, it can result in students being off task or allowing a peer to do the heavy lifting.
But before you dismiss it, if you subscribe to the notion of CLT, you should read about the collective working memory effect. Here is a paper by @P_A_Kirschner and colleagues research.ou.nl/ws/files/10225…
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.
In the run-up to its publication, @olicav and I would like to introduce you to our generous and inventive contributors — one per day.
Meet Ayellet @MaysharShizuka, a primary school teacher. In the book, Ayellet explains how she pairs mind-mapping with strategies from Hochman's The Writing Revolution — an excellent example of how word diagrams serve the learning process.
1 GOs don't require the use of images. From my reading, DCT is about the use of images paired with words, to aid retrieval. And as @olivcav has pointed out, Pavio worked with simple ideas and concepts.
2 Most of the research into GOs appears to be unhelpful. Hattie lumped all visual strategies together and reported his finding under the heading, concept maps.
3 Fiorella and Mayer, in LaGA, report that mapping, while having a medium-to-high effect size, also take a long time to complete and are difficult to construct.
1. Graphics organisers, mapping, semantic organisers (whatever you want to call them) are NOT examples of dual coding. Images aren't necessary for their use or creation. They also aren't a stand-alone strategy. They are a servant and best paired with other strategies.
2. We use retrieval practice to strengthen the connection between our WM and LTM, cold call helps us to check for understanding, and pair share is useful to help students rehearse their answers before sharing them. GO can be paired with these strategies to enhance them.
3. I suspect giving students a completed GO, containing unfamiliar information, would be similar to expecting a novice to learn through discovery-learning strategies. Most teachers I speak to about GOs, consider CLT, the learning propensities of their students and their students