by Katherine Reece,
Lead Teacher of Humanities
Lead Teacher of Humanities
Since becoming a PiXL school there has been a growing
interest in Knowledge Organisers. Across Humanities, we have been discussing how
to best implement these across the key stages from September. Here is our plan:
Geography
Geography is looking to use Knowledge organisers as a way of
giving student a quick snapshot of the content that is needed in each topic. We
have found these from all over twitter and schoology, and will be adapting them
to out topics. There will be one given out at the start of the topic and glued
into the students' exercise books - this will then be a reference point
throughout the topic with key words and content. This will then be re-visited
at the end of the topic and student can highlight the areas that they are
weakest at and can use it as the first point of revision.
History
History is using Knowledge Organisers in a different way;
they will be given to the students at the start of Year 7 and 8 in the format
of a checklist. These checklists will be revisited throughout the year so that
students can highlight their areas of weakness ready to revise and improve on
before assessments. At GCSE, the students will still get the same kind of
checklists however will get one per topic to ensure that more detail is
included in revision.
We feel using Knowledge Organisers makes the whole topic
transparent across every year group. Students and parents will be able to see
what is going to be covered and also what needs to be learnt for assessment.
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