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Views from Porthmeor Beach, St Ives at night taken earlier this year 🌊 #photography #cornwall

Potentially unpopular opinion regarding latest Gov’t line on teacher pay - yes a pay increase is welcome, but real issue that needs tackling is workload. A 2, 5, or 10% increase does nothing to make workload easier in my opinion. Something gets removed and immediately replaced with something else.

We start teaching development in January, but next week we’re introducing it via Gapminder/Dollar St and will start to unpick some wider misconceptions then. The biggest barrier in teaching India is just how rapidly it evolves as a case study, but that adds to the joy of teaching it for me 😊

We’re also Edexcel A and teach India as our emerging country case study. The latter half of the development spec considers global status, tech innovation and some of the strategies we look at for this can then also shift upwards to the globalisation unit at A Level.

Massive away win for the little fella.

LOVE all things @geteach.com , but also the site featured in this project Unequal Scenes: unequalscenes.com/projects

Commented on the original post, but essentially I think it’s tricky for us to implement in every lesson.

Where we can build familiarity/repetition however is consistently using it in similar circumstances e.g. describing location, breaking down low tariff Qs etc.

Safe to say Dexter is getting himself pretty well acclimatised to his new home already 🏡

Yep, it could be that they have the discussion then the extent of their understanding is tested through those. I’ll try to share an example of how we’ve implemented it with Y10 later today - currently have our new cat stuck to me 🤣

We’ve had a whole school drive on pupil talk recently, and one of the things we focused on in particular in Geography was strengthening our think, pair, share.

Whilst we were already doing lots, we’ve tightened the routines around how we facilitate it, and reconsidered a lot about the Qs we ask.

That poster looks amazing - would be great if the RGS could digitise it and make it available for schools to use (with the creator’s permission, of course!)

Huge expanses of mangroves on Sri Lanka’s east coast too, this was taken shortly after taking off from Trincomalee heading back to Colombo 🌳 #geographyteacher

Looking back through some pictures from our trip to Sri Lanka in the summer. How cool are these for teaching about meanders! #geographyteacher

Spending wellbeing day off school getting Dexter, our newly adopted cat who came home last night, settled at home. He’s being so brave already! 🐱

Non-teaching post but I did my first Vinted sale this weekend and I genuinely feel like an entrepreneur in the making 🤣

Same, usually a “this means that…” and “as a result” style approach. Although sometimes I wonder how far removed that is from PEEL?

Quite a “theory heavy” teaching day today, covering middle course river landforms with Year 10, tropical storms with one Year 11 class and global atmospheric circulation with the other.

And the kids absolutely aced it 👏

Not mine, but a friend was once given a full 5 lesson timetable to teach as an “interview”. They definitely just wanted a free teacher for the day 🤣

Hello Bluesky 👋 Happy to join the rest of the #geographyteacher community over here, given what X has now become. I didn’t share a huge amount on there, but perhaps I can get into better habits here!

Here I am with an upside down globe a few weeks ago in Lisbon 🌍

Last year's 0.75 cm rise was the largest year over year increase in global mean sea level during NASA's 31 year record of satellite based measurements. Viz by AJ Christensen.

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5235/