Marg's+comments+on+alternative+ways+of+presenting

Tuesday morning opened many doors and flagged our concerns and dare I say biases! I believe we need to look more critically at the how rather than the what. I will add a page showing what we have at present as Scope and Sequence. Perhaps this is where we need to concentrate our efforts. I believe we teach best when we are comfortable with the content. However I think we also need to look at what each of our students walks away with at the end of Year 10 in terms of what best equips them for the future. I love the topic Ali and Phoebe have set up for year 9. By researching fallen ex-collegians they are actually teaching Boer War, WW1 and WW2. I think we need to come up with similar things: perhaps one at each level initially that come at topics through a single concept or link. Year 7 Jody's archeological concept would work really well. We could tease this out further here. Would we "do it" as a series of lessons, or do a lead in in class follwed by an "excursion" to the dig? Refugees or the UN might be a possibilty at Year 10. If you divided people into groups of different locations they could then prepare reports for the rest of the class. Universities are assessing students of History in this manner on a variety of topics, so it would help prepare our students for that also. Work places are also developing more multi skilled team approaches. Another possibility for Year 10 might be "living in" where groups would be allocated a decade to become the experts on. E.g: Australia in the 40's. Oral history: interview people who have relatives who fought in/at...