Teacher Planning Podcast

In this episode, Joe discusses his department’s strategy on grouping year 9 PE students (still KS3) so that they are best prepared for sport in KS4. This ranges from exam questions and theory content for the probable GCSE students to fun, engaging, alternative sports for the less enthusiastic students.

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Nicola makes her second appearance on the podcast after the success of her Circle Theorems lesson description in Term 1. In this episode she discusses her lesson on sequences, taken from a White Rose Maths scheme of learning. Nicola begins by explaining how White Rose Maths has changed her way of approaching her lessons and sequences of lessons before describing the lessons itself, including the concept of encouraging children to talk and think like mathematicians through enabling them to verbalise their thinking before entering the patterns in to a table before transferring on to a graph.

Follow Nicola on Twitter at @whisto_maths

Follow Nicola’s Maths Department on Instagram at @oha_maths

Making her second appearance on the show, Catherine uses this opportunity to describe her year 7 Geography lesson in which the children explore the geology of their local area. As the second lesson within the scheme of work, the lesson structure and content can be applied to anywhere in the world, but might need some research on your local geology if you do not know already.

Below are the links discussed during the episode.

Follow Catherine on Twitter at @GeogMum

https://geogmum.wordpress.com/

https://www.geography.org.uk/

This episode explores life as a teacher in Malaysia and more specifically, Penang. Having also taught in the UK, Thailand, and the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur, Liz gives her personal account about teaching in international schools, what one needs to consider when thinking about teaching abroad, invaluable interview advice and also a comparison with the Malaysian education system. If you are even considering teaching abroad at any stage, this is a must listen.

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Follow Liz on Twitter at @misscloke

Oli Thompson – Art/Photography – Year 10 - What makes a successful photograph?

Ollie discuss his lesson in which GCSE students are given the opportunity to use high-quality, SLR cameras that they would never normally have access to. During this extended lesson, they are given a self-discovery task in which they must create photos of the following techniques; Drawing with light, blurred motion, playing with perspective and a professional-style portrait.

Follow Oli on Instagram at @_ollie_artist

After teaching in a variety of countries over a number of years, History Teacher, Dan Guiney, discusses the process of planning itself and inquiry units. Like many others, Dan is a big believer that lessons should not be planned as individual lessons, but start from the end, create essential questions and include plenty of inquiry units – ‘’Questions within the unit, which the essential questions will be a product of.’’ This episode leads on perfectly to Dan’s lesson-specific episode where he explains his single lesson structure.

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After providing his insight into his whole planning process and enquiry units, Dan Guiney discusses the use of this within a lesson for year 8s on Slavery. This episode is slightly different to others, in the fact that Dan has a general 4-part structure that he explains, along with some ideas that can be used within the lesson.

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Experienced teacher, tutor and producer of numerous MFL resources, Kate (Kate Languages) describes her lesson for year 7s on pets. Taking us on a journey from seeing pictures and repeating the words to some students writing a paragraph about pets, Kate explains this lesson in a way that any teacher would be able to produce.

Kate’s plan, worksheet and powerpoint can be found on her website using this link:

https://katelanguages.co.uk/les-animaux-a-year-7-lesson-plan-with-new-gcse-style-questions/

Follow Kate on Twitter at @katelanguages

Jen discusses the topical and political subject of migration and provides students the opportunity to form or sway their own opinions on the reality of this area. This is done by exposing the class to facts and figures, leading to an analysis of the issue and why this is still such a hot topic.

Follow Jen on Twitter at @Jennnnnn_x

Definitely one for the trainees! In this alternative episode, Sam discusses a lesson he taught to a year 11 core group in which the lesson didn’t go as planned. Sam’s a trainee and understandably taught a lesson that didn’t go as he planned it. Sam details the reasons why this lesson didn’t go to plan and what he would do differently in the future with all practical lessons to avoid the same mistakes.

Follow Sam on Twitter at @HarrayMr