Geography and Literacy Learning outcomes To develop strategies
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Geography and Literacy
Learning outcomes: • To develop strategies for raising achievement in Geography through improved literacy skills
Learning outcomes: • To develop a department approach to developing literacy through Geography
Stumbling blocks • What is it about literacy that gets in the way of your students making the progress they should? Is it: • Speaking and listening, • Reading, • Writing • Identify the blocks.
Is it Speaking and Listening? • Plan for and create opportunities for speaking and listening in lessons • Teach and develop the skills of speaking and listening
Some thoughts about developing speaking and listening • Make the talk meaningful – give it a purpose • Do something with the talk • P 4 C, Communities of Enquiry, Socratic talk • Speaking and listening exercises • Learning partners • Talking heads together
Is it reading? • What is it about reading that is the problem? • Plan for the development of reading skills
Some thoughts about reading • Continuous, Close, Skimming, Scanning, • Active reading • Reading for exam success
Is it writing • What types of writing do your students need to master? • Teach the skills of writing
Some thoughts about writing • • Types of writing Have something to write about Organising your thoughts Getting started
No matter what it is … To develop any literacy skill: • Teach it • Provide examples • Model it • Scaffold first attempts • Independent opportunities (Underpinned by Af. L principles)
Af. L principles • Include a literacy objective • Share literacy outcomes and success criteria • Reflect on the literacy during and at the end • Self and Peer assessment opportunities during and at the end • Feedback – written and oral – teacher/student, student/student
What next? • Create a plan for developing literacy – it might look like your subject improvement plan • Select a number of actions, decide what to do, when, who, how, with what etc • Monitor and evaluate progress and be prepared to change and add as necessary