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Sep 13, 2019 10 tweets 5 min read
Absolutely no-one: Hey Ben, we know you're super excited about the Year 7 curriculum that you launched this September, can you tell us about it?

Me: Well, since you asked...

*Thread* Borrowing heavily from the SLOP work happening in #cogscisci it's all in a booklet. Every lesson features extended reading, and it starts with the word Geography. Why the word Geography? If we've understood @Counsell_C right, this is the hinterland that supports the core.
Mar 2, 2019 10 tweets 5 min read
A short thread about the awesome things I learned today at #rEdBrum.

1. There a literally hundreds of teachers who have given up their Saturday to to hear and help work out what works. This is amazing.

#geographyteacher #cogscigeo 2. The @ErdingtonAcad has some of the politest and most helpful students I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. We should come here again @stoneman_claire.
Feb 4, 2019 12 tweets 3 min read
1/ A short thread on sequencing, schema, retrieval practice, and how we plan on teaching the global atmospheric circulatory model in our Year 8 curriculum. #geographyteacher 2/ I think the global atmospheric circulatory model is a threshold concept that meets all six criteria (if this is new to you, check out what @ensermark has to say here: bit.ly/2WHs0eo) so it’s worth teaching, and worth teaching well.