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For years I taught source papers in history by showing loads and loads of sources. I bought packs and CD ROMs of sources. My pupils still found 'inferring' from sources really hard and it was always the weakest paper for them.. https://twitter.com/z_helman/status/1336962122572570625
For years I taught source papers in history by showing loads and loads of sources. I bought packs and CD ROMs of sources. My pupils still found 'inferring' from sources really hard and it was always the weakest paper for them.. https://twitter.com/z_helman/status/1336962122572570625
..then one year I tried something different. I put every single date and event from the time period of the source paper into a knowledge organiser (I just called it a fact sheet because this was before knowledge organisers)..
..we did something exciting called THE NEVER ENDING QUIZ.
This was basically read/cover/write or recite/check as a class and then a quiz at the end of the lesson. I told the class we'd move on when everybody got
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'How long is this going to go on for, Sir?, they groaned..
This was basically read/cover/write or recite/check as a class and then a quiz at the end of the lesson. I told the class we'd move on when everybody got
%'How long is this going to go on for, Sir?, they groaned..
'Who knows?' I said with a shrug. 'A week? The rest of the year?'
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It took two lessons and a homework.
Then I showed them the sources.
IT. WAS. INCREDIBLE.
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It took two lessons and a homework.
Then I showed them the sources.
IT. WAS. INCREDIBLE.
'That's The Great Reform Act, Sir!'
'Oh look. It's Bazalgette!'
'Ew! Great Stink!'
It was EASY.
Inference is about knowledge. It isn't a secret dark art. There's no magic trick. The more you know the more you'll 'infer'.
Fin.
'Oh look. It's Bazalgette!'
'Ew! Great Stink!'
It was EASY.
Inference is about knowledge. It isn't a secret dark art. There's no magic trick. The more you know the more you'll 'infer'.
Fin.
Oh PS. They SMASHED the source paper that year. Good times.
