Daily Edventures is a blog put together by Microsoft’s Vice President for education, Anthony Salcito. Its ambitious aim is to feature an educator every day. I was lucky enough to be featured back in August but I’m very happy that colleague Jo Debens has been featured this week. Jo is a key member of Priory Geography, and has been there almost from the beginning of the department’s transformation. Well deserved recognition for someone who is modest and has the habit of underselling herself I’, sure that you’ll agree with me that her piece is far more interesting than my own. I’ll also flag up Jo’s long overdue personal blog. Rest assured that one of my missions will be to nag her to keep it up to date…
Today I want to share some simple ideas that I have found to be very effective in the classroom. I can't say that they are my own original ideas, although I have played around with them. The first is the Banned word Board. This is a simple display in the classroom that lists a number of words that are not allowed to be used by pupils in their written or oral answers. The effect has been an increase in the quality of written work, and I have almost made comments such as 'Sir it's simple, the stuff just affects the thing and causes people problems'. Pupils are now more able to use specific language, something that is vital especially at GCSE. I have had to make a few modifications, such as the introduction of 'Heavenly Words' This is an additional display placed on the ceiling. I found this necessary as pupils needed some stimulus in finding replacement words. After advice received after posting the idea on the SLN forum , I have also introduced semi-banned words...
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