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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

7 months

My booklets for the UK Politics topic of the Edexcel Politics A level can be found here:

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

@sofiaakel Thanks for sharing. The school textbooks don't include stories from Black Germans so I made these profiles for my GCSE students. I'll make one for Theodor now.

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Owen Williams

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7 months

The pernicious thing about teacher workload is that on Sunday evening as the work piles up, I look back on the week just gone and chastise myself for having watched something on TV or for going out with the kids, instead of working. Madness.

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Owen Williams

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Here's an overview of Ukraine's history which shows how its past is intertwined with that of Russia. Link:

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After reflecting on the visit of OFSTED this week, here are the 4 documents I think History depts need to have ready for when you get the call: 1. Vision Statement. Sets out why its important for students to study History and the principles which will guide your teaching.

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Example of an end of unit reflection sheet. Used for the first time this year with Year 10. #metacognition

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Owen Williams

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2 years

Single Slide Summary on Metacognition Based on the work of @FunkyPedagogy with @EnserMark @AlexJQuigley @EducEndowFoundn

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

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I’ve definitely found it faster to mark essays by using comparative marking. Using an empty classroom I read each essay then put them onto either the top middle or bottom row. Then I read across the row putting them into an order from best to worst. Then…

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Version 2.0 of the Differentiation slide from earlier this week. Not sure I've got the dual coding right, but it's an improvement on the first draft.

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@mrbwteach

2 years

@Mr_RKeogh Even worse?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

The start of one of our curriculum planning docs. 1. Snake map 2. Key themes (highlighted on a summary of curriculum) 3. Unit summary - Introduction 4. Unit summary - Enquiry 1

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Owen Williams

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1 year

The development of the essay in 3 stages: 1. KS3: Teach diff parts across the year. Practicing diff sentence types is crucial e.g. ones that weigh up judgements; ones that introduce evidence; multi-clause chains of thought etc. Going straight to a full essay is the danger here

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Updated Ukraine infographic with international reaction. Link:

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Teaching and learning Communities are starting again at HQ. First up, 'Differentiation'. Made this with help from @MaryMyatt @meganmansworth @DavidDidau @teacherhead @innerdrive Plus, a bit of stylistic inspiration from @MrThorntonTeach

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Owen Williams

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2 years

*Black History Month Resource* Looks at 31 black Britons from politics, business and the arts. Sheet contains links to videos and articles, plus space to briefly record the individual's contribution. Link:

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

‘There were Africans in Britain before the English came here’. - Staying Power, Peter Fryer This is how we start our Y7 curriculum. It’s probably the best opening line to any History book ever and speaks to a globally connected Medieval world which is the theme of our course.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

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Making the teacher clipboard idea from @Doug_Lemov my own this term with a note book filled with seating plans. Ticks made in lessons and show who has read to the class or been cold called. Two plans per page let me look back and target students who didn’t participate last time.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

A single slide infographic on recent Ukrainian history I'll be using with students today.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Just tried @KatieAmery activity ‘judging a book by its cover’ with Y8. Enjoyed exploring the meaning of words and phrases to get a more nuanced understanding of @EmmaGriffinHist interpretation.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

10 ways to write like a historian. After reading blogs by @VallanceTeach and watching @HistoryKss presentation on 'The Writing Revolution' I've tried to summarise for KS3 some of the key techniques historians use to write about the past. Have I missed anything important out?

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Owen Williams

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2 years

I've been wanting to use Figes' masterful narrative of the October Revolution in class but at 30+ pages it would take two if not more lessons to read the unexpurgated version. So, I've tried to boil it down to 'five stories'...thread

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

1 year

As we approach the mid-point of our KS3 redesign, here is a look at how our Year 8 curriculum on the Early Modern World is coming together. 🧵

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Here it is. Anglo-Saxon and Norman England Booklet 3 Was 'brutal slaughter' the key to William's consolidation of power? Link:

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 months

New visualiser desk!

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

1 year

New mid-year assessment for year 7. It's based on our knowledge organisers and consists of: A. Match definition to key word B. Match events to dates on a timeline C. Name the person from the description D. Best end to a sentence E. Give an example to support the statement

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Do you know your way along the Silk Road? Match the domino cards to trace the route of the Silk Road from Chang'An to Rome.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Today a colleague asked me to sum up the story of our Year 7 curriculum because they didn't understand the sequence. So I wrote it up.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Used @mrfitzhist idea of ‘definition dots’ for Y11 revision this morning. Combined it with @KKNTeachLearn ‘brain, buddy, book’ sequence and they loved it. 63 definitions in 50 minutes!

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 months

Two years. 16 booklets. Christ knows how many paper jams. One GCSE History course. Massive thank you to the awesome @mrotscott We did it!

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Year 7 have taken to their new Independent Learning Records where they're asked to summarize a range of further reading, listening and watching materials. It's voluntary but up to 50 points can be added to their progress chart if they complete all the tasks.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

First knowledge organiser of the new Y8 course. I've updated the format to show how each enquiry is linked to the core concepts of the Y8 course.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

This took off yesterday so if the profiles are useful to anyone they can be found here:

Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

@sofiaakel Thanks for sharing. The school textbooks don't include stories from Black Germans so I made these profiles for my GCSE students. I'll make one for Theodor now.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

"Curriculum is content structured as narrative over time" Christine Counsell How we put Constantinople at the heart of our Year 7 Curriculum.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 months

Changed the Whole Class Feedback slide to include 'next time' tips to improve the learner rather than the work.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Year 9 End of Year Review Lesson on the 20th Century. Using Eric Hobsbawm and the 'Extreme-O-Meter'.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Made another I, We, You worksheet for the Edexcel 16 mark interpretations essay. These are quickly becoming central to my teaching of exam technique.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

If you're finishing up the causes of the First World War then try to squeeze in a lesson on the Belgian Congo. I've made a Meanwhile, Elsewhere here if its of use.

Meanwhile, elsewhere - Kingdom of Kongo

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Our SOW are changing this year. Influenced by the extraordinary work of @MissSayers1 we hope to be more explicit about the residue of knowledge students should leave with. So OUT go lists of key 'concepts' and 'content' and IN come five analytical 'takeaways' for each unit.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

What do historians do? A simple overview.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Really busy start to this week and I’m already flagging tbh. But then Year 9 produce these brilliant memes in their final lesson and I’m smiling again.😃

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Trying a new approach to KS3 exams this year. In Sept we set an over-arching question for each KS3 course. So the exam is to answer that question...in 45 mins. Students will go into the exam knowing the question, and we will share the essay plans below with them too...1/2

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Year 7 are going to finish their enquiry into Medieval Baghdad by recording presentations its significance using the @SPBeale criteria from the #howhistoriansthink series. In the thread are the example slides I will use to set-up our end of enquiry assessment.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 months

Using ideas from @Doug_Lemov and @adamboxer1 my 'teaching tip' in briefing this week will focus on the Means of Participation as a way to reduce 'choppy time'.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Year 7 takeaways. These are the key ideas we want Year 7 students to understand by the end of their course.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 months

Some Y11 students have recently asked me how to revise all the content they have in their GCSE course. I suggested that instead of trawling through all the detail from start to finish, they first write a short story that encapsulated what each unit was about. Here are a few...

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

After seeing so many excellent booklets I've finally finished my first attempt. It focuses on the debate over whether Edward the Confessor was to blame for the Norman Conquest.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Knowledge Organiser for our new Year 7 unit on Anglo-Saxon England.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

What’s the most important word a historian uses? I’ll start: ‘because’

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

I've been working on these before and after character cards for our Walsham and the Black Death enquiry for what seems like forever. Finally done, plus a compass activity to plot the impact of the Black Death on their lives.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

If you need to get through a lot of content quickly a card sort like this can help. Students read a text and then sort the 20 statements into: 5 causes, 10 events and 5 consequences.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Many of our students try to write down every word of our Y13 lectures and miss out on the meaning of what’s being said. So I’m trying to implement the Cornell note-taking system to lectures this year. Few examples of the first attempt.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Draft Y7 History Curriculum. Hugely inspired by (stolen from) @OliveyJacob Plus, @richkbristol @mrwbw and the 'meanwhile, elsewhere' idea. Any and all suggestions for improvement welcome.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

5 months

Last of the Edexcel Weimar and Nazi Germany booklets. This one is on 'Life in Nazi Germany'.

Weimar and Nazi Germany - EQ4 booklet

Weimar and Nazi Germany EQ4: Why was Nazi Germany a totalitarian society?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Students writing really long sentences? I’ve tried a ‘split and strengthen’ exercise to get my Year 7s to develop and extend their arguments further.

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Owen Williams

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As our KS3 curriculum planning comes towards an end thoughts turn to implementation. Some ideas to make a curriculum 'land' in the classroom. 🧵

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Y7's final assessment was to design a dust jacket for a book about Joan of Arc, to communicate their interpretation of her. One even gave himself a glowing review from @hrcastor !

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

1 year

Crime and Punishment - Booklet 1 Focuses on the medieval period. Link below.

Crime and Punishment - EQ1 booklet

Crime and punishment through time, c1000-present EQ1: Was Medieval crime and punishment influenced more by government or religion?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Finally got round to making a version the Marginal Gains revision tasks suggested by @SPBeale . Still need to make the tests and templates though...😳

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Brief summaries of the first four crusades for a lesson I’m planning.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Rereading Empireland by @Sathnam and found a paragraph that would work well in a lesson on the impact of Empire on the UK.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

1 year

Final Anglo-Saxon and Normans booklet complete. Next: Crime and Punishment.😅

Anglo-Saxon and Norman England - EQ4 booklet

Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c.1060-1088 EQ4: Did the Normans bring a ‘truckload of trouble’ to England?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

New knowledge organiser for our Year 7 Medieval Baghdad unit. Hat tip to @SPBeale for the inspiration.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Politics society organised a visit from Krishnan Guru-Murthy today, who gave a fascinating talk on politics and the media. So glad to finally be able to bring external speakers back into school to enrich the curriculum.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

11 months

If helps anyone here is a link to a folder with the resources for this enquiry:

Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

11 months

I've started work on a new Y8 enquiry on 'Liberty's Dawn' inspired by a thread by @michaeldoron and new textbook enquiry by @PaulaLoboWorth .

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Started the week with an OFSTED deep dive, now ending it with the arrival of this. The latter undoubtedly helped with the former. Thanks to @HughJRichards all involved in the SLDP.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

1 year

This is probably of no use to anyone but since I spent most of my weekend on it here it is. Year 7 Revision Guide to the Medieval Era

Year 7 Course Guide

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

‘When the Wall St Crash hit it led to hyperinflation…’

Hugh Richards

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Tis the season, so here’s LBJ marking his mocks. (H/T @eharrison810 )

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Owen Williams

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Rishi: I'm crushing this! Everyone: How rude is this guy!? #britainsnextpm

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Owen Williams

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Mock exam asks: What does the source suggest about Weimar's early years? Year 11 hears: What were all the terms of the Versailles Treaty?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

4 months

#Edexcel #GCSE #historyteacher Superpower Relations and the Cold War - Booklet 1

Superpower Relations and the Cold War - EQ1 booklet

Superpower Relations and the Cold War EQ1: When and why did the Cold War begin?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 months

Six years ago we had 123/180 Y9 students pick History for GCSE. Last year just 83 picked it. Today we found out that 105 of our current Y9s - the first year group to experience our much renovated KS3 course - will take History into Y10. Today was a good day.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

A more polished version of the source analysis exercise I posted earlier.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

A few Qs for those who use booklets: 1. Do you include all the resources students need in it? 2. Do you provide lines or just a blank space/box? 3. Do you ask them to do homework tasks in it? 4. Do you ask them to do formal assessments in it? 5. Any other tips?

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Owen Williams

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2 years

World-building early Anglo-Saxon England using an interactive map. Students click on different locations and learn about aspects of government, war, culture, religion and trade.

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Owen Williams

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1 year

Seen on the staircase at school.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 months

Best source lesson ever…and it had no sources! #Soane24

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 months

Used this @HodderHistory textbook in class for the first time today…blimey it’s good.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Tomorrow I'm going use Julia Boyd's 'Travellers in the Third Reich' to tell Year 11 the incredible story of the only black man to meet Hitler - American economist Milton Wright.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

A little 'how to' slide I'll be using in dept CPD this morning. 10 ways to use a knowledge organiser to practice knowledge retrieval.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

5 months

An attempt at introducing Y7 to 9th Century Baghdad using Assassin's Creed Mirage. 🧵

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Owen Williams

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1 year

Year 7 Revision Guide. *Overview of Summer Exam *Principles of Historical Writing *'Assessment by Paragraph' *How to Write a Body Paragraph *How to Write a Concluding Paragraph

Summer Assessment - Revision Guide - Year 7

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Getting ready to rewrite Year 8 SOW and trying to come up with some common features of enquiry design so that different teachers can produce similar resources Ideas so far include…

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Wanted: workload ideas. I've got... 1) Minimise formal assess 2) Whole class feedback for 1) 3) Standard hmwk = recall tests 4) Self-marking MCQs for 3) 5) Only check bks of struggling stu 6) Teach from txtbk - plan, don't resource 7) Take staff off 1yr group = fewer parent eve

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Owen Williams

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New Year 7 Autumn Assessment. First of 3 termly formal assessments. Each out of 50 marks. Autumn assessment focuses on substantive knowledge. Spring assessment will focus on sources and interpretations. Summer assessment on second order concepts.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

First time I've done this, but as the specification gets used up identifying what has yet to be examined could be useful in targeting revision. Here's a breakdown of Edexcel's GCSE unit on the Normans.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

7 months

Weimar and Nazi Germany - Booklet 2 Why was Hitler appointed as the Chancellor of Germany in 1933?

Weimar and Nazi Germany - EQ2 booklet

Weimar and Nazi Germany EQ2: Why was Hitler appointed as Chancellor of Germany in 1933?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Took a while to figure this out but these are the opening slides to our new enquiry on the origins of ‘race’.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

1 year

Every autumn our Y9s visit the WW1 gallery at the Imperial War Museum. We usually try to guide their way around gallery using simple a question sheet. Next year, as part of an interpretations enquiry, I'd like to get them to see the WW1 gallery as an interpretation using this.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

Booklet 2: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, 1060-88 If anyone wants to take a look there's a link below:

Anglo-Saxon and Norman England - EQ2 booklet

Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c.1060-1088 EQ2: Why was the Norman Invasion successful?

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

To mark International Women's Day here's a info sheet on Female Heads of Government of the 20th Century. Link:

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

If it's of interest to anyone the whole booklet can be viewed here:

Anglo-Saxon and Norman England - EQ1 booklet

Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c.1060-1088 EQ1: Do you agree that under Edward the Confessor Anglo-Saxon England became ripe for conquering?

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Owen Williams

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I tried the Treasure Box task for the first time this year and set it as an end task for a Y7 enquiry into the achievements of 9th century Baghdad. Worked well and students enjoyed explaining their boxes to each other. h/t @KatieAmery

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Owen Williams

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2 years

@groom_benjamin @HughJRichards @First_floor_8 @HistoryKss @MrRPerkins @michaeldoron @jonniegrande @SPBeale @mrwmhistory @mrfitzhist @SashaWHistory Students should use feedback to improve their work, not fill in another table. For formal assessments we ask them to submit a first draft, then they get whole class feedback then they make improvements immediately in class and submit as their final draft for marking.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

3 years

Why did the Roman Empire end in 476? A worksheet based on the Story, Source, Scholarship idea by @mrwmhistory

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

When was 'race' invented? Haven't quite cracked it yet, but inspired by @MsKerryApps here are some resources and a rough plan of action for our new Year 8 enquiry.

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

I've just witnessed a stunning talk by Professor Lipscomb on the @history4ukraine livestream. It was based on her chapter: 'How we can recover the lost lives of women' in 'What is History, Now?' And well, it's sort of blown my mind. @sixteenthCgirl

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Owen Williams

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I'm looking at changing our knowledge organiser design from the one on the left to the one on the right. This is being done to support the regular completion of revision for homework. Short 🧵

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Owen Williams

@mrbwteach

2 years

After dept discussion today this is how our new Year 8 curriculum is shaping up topic-wise. x6 depth enquiries in green x6 meanwhile, elsewheres in yellow

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Owen Williams

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3 years

I've always taught students classroom routines as went along in an ad hoc fashion. But this year I'm going to try explicit instruction of 'regular routines' in my first lesson. Most of it is from TLAC so nothing esp original and as you can see, I'm a beginner at dual coding!

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2 years

Black Death End of Unit Task. Based on a ‘A Street Through Time’ and inspired by the @OliveyJacob article in TH186. Students have to draw how the village of Walsham might have looked after the BD and through speech bubbles show what survivors felt about their new environment.

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