I have a mock Deep Dive coming up and have been making sure that I have all the documents that I need to hand. One of the really helpful resources that I have used are the progression pages on the Geographical Association website – The Association has also recently produced a summary document for teachers as well – which can be accessed via the link here.
I think this also highlights the importance of subject associations like the Geographical Association and that getting involved in an association whether that be via becoming a member, following on twitter (@The_GA) , attending an annual conference or regularly visiting the websites can really support your day to day classroom pedagogy.
In my opinion, and others may disagree, the power of resources like these and others is in the ideas that they generate, and then the resulting resources that are produced to fit your own school environment. Lots of resources are available on the internet and I think it is important to remember the time and effort that has gone into making the resource fit for purpose – for the school and pupils it has come from – so some editing will be needed to make it useful in your own school setting.
With that in mind, I thought I would share with you my own resources that have been generated from the GA materials, and the materials from the Progress In Geography series that we base our KS3 curriculum on.
Using the GA booklet, and the concept of duel coding, I developed my progression sheet, which will go into students books.
The icons will be used throughout our exercise books and assessments so students are clear what aspect of geography we are assessing. I then used the Progression framework from the Hodder Progress in Geography for each of our units to produce a unit assessment sheet. I still need to change these slightly to make them more student friendly.
As staff we shall be setting assessments to asses the progress against these statements and colour code them to show the level they have achieved. We will then record an overall level for each strand as shown below.
We shall then have an overall chart across the yr to show progress towards the three elements…
I’ll post an example of the assessments once I have put them together.
Geographical reflections 