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A mindmap of tasks and materials for Humanities subjects. Linked to the Facebook group "The Humanities Hub". Updated every month from shared materials on the group.
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by Rich Cramp
1. RAP - Read aloud, Ask Questions, Paraphrase
2. silent debates
3. Flipped examples
4. Fishbowl strategy
5. Flipped Classroom Students watch video. Main lesson silent debate. most significant causes and consequences.
6. Colour coded info graphic
7. Essay thesauraus bookmark
8. Growth Mindset
8.1. What?
8.2. How?
8.2.1. Avoid Praising Intelligence and Sheer Effort. Instead, give feedback that highlights the values of planning and trying different learning strategies. Differentiated instruction tactics and principles (content of lessons, processes and finished product - keep changing these). Gamify - use games with points that accrue over time. Explain that challenges are oppurtunites. Encourage Students to Expand their Answers and to elaborate during discussions and problem based activities. Explain the Purposes of Abstract Skills and Concepts (to be used in the real world, to synergise with other subjects) but do this experientially rather than transferring the info. Exit tickets for formative assessments for the teacher and for students to outline what they need to focus on to improve.
9. Independent learning
9.1. DIRT - dedicated improvement and reflection time
10. Ice Breakers
11. Students know they can develop their skills and talents through effort and persistence, as well as being receptive to lessons and feedback. They generally believe they can improve through hard work and trying new learning methods.
12. The MYP Learner Profile Unlocking the MYP Learner Profile: Concept-based planning, teaching and assessment
13. MYP teachers organize the curriculum with appropriate attention to: • Teaching and learning in context. Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and the world that they have experienced. Using global contexts, MYP students explore human identity, global challenges and what it means to be internationally minded. • Conceptual understanding. Concepts are big ideas that have relevance within specific disciplines and across subject areas. MYP students use concepts as a vehicle to inquire into issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance and examine knowledge holistically. • Approaches to learning (ATL). A unifying thread throughout all MYP subject groups, approaches to learning provide the foundation for independent learning and encourage the application of their knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts. Developing and applying these skills help students learn how to learn. • Service as action (community service). Action (learning by doing and experiencing) and service have always been shared values of the IB community. Students take action when they apply what they are learning in the classroom and beyond. IB learners strive to be caring members of the community who demonstrate a commitment to service—making a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment. Service as action is an integral part of the programme, especially in the MYP community project. • Language and identity – MYP students are required to learn at least two languages. Learning to communicate in a variety of ways is fundamental to their development of intercultural understanding and crucial to their identity affirmation.
14. New topic strategies
14.1. KWL Charts
14.2. Socrative Seminar Socratic Seminars - ReadWriteThink
14.3. 3 of My Favorite Ways to Introduce a New History Topic
14.4. Jigsaws - from 'home' group on one specialist topic to become experts, then mix with people from othe groups to teach them their topic
14.5. Snowball - share ideas from individuals to pairs, to fours, and finally whole class.
14.6. Notice and Wonders (individually write down what they notice, then discuss with partners. Then, ask a few questions about the text, etc).
14.7. Rainbow Groups - give each person on each group a different cause who needs to give a 3 or 4 minute presentation to their group.
15. Lifelong Learning
15.1. Edutopia Course on the Science of Learning
15.2. MOTIVATION
15.3. Example lesson plans
16. Concept Based Approach
16.1. Causation
16.2. Empathic Understanding
16.3. Change and Continuity
16.4. Perspectives
16.5. Significance
17. IB
18. Formative Assessments
18.1. Self Assessments and Peer Assessing
18.2. 1 - get students to write down the questions they'd like to know the answer to. 2 - Share success criteria by showing them high level creation. 3 - Effective questioning, differentiated. 4- Thumbs up thumbs down. 5 - One sentence summary. 6 - EBI and WWW. 7 - Followed by DIRT.
18.3. Key Questions
18.4. Dylan Wiliams
19. Literacy
19.1. EAL Toolkit
19.2. Reading
19.2.1. Dictogloss
19.2.2. Explain like I'm 5. Group effort deconstructing difficult text to find meaning.
19.3. Guided Reading
19.4. Writing
19.4.1. WordSift.org
19.4.2. Nomilisation
19.4.3. Essay flow charts
19.4.4. Essay Writing Toolkit
19.4.4.1. Word Up! Replace 6 words using a thesaurus
19.4.5. Paper 2 Phrasing
19.4.5.1. 24 key terms
19.4.6. Lotus Diagram for Essay Writing
19.5. EAL
19.5.1. Scaffolding Language Learning
19.6. Teacher hand book for English skills (including vocab acquisition).
20. Differentiation
20.1. Graded questioning (verbal and written)
20.2. Mixed ability groups, by dynamic too
20.3. Flipped classroom allows students to aquire knowledge in their own time
20.4. Scaffolding with phrasing, vocab, for EAL learners
20.5. Learning Menus
20.6. Job Role Cards
21. Aquisition
21.1. Socrative Seminar
21.2. Activity Stations
21.3. Think Pair Share
21.4. Escape Rooms
21.5. Jigsaws - from 'home' group on one specialist topic to become experts, then mix with people from othe groups to teach them their topic
21.6. Snowball - share ideas from individuals to pairs, to fours, and finally whole class.
21.7. Listening triads - put into trios, each given a role: Talker explains or comments on text, Questioner asks questions to prompt more points being raised, interviewer, etc. Recorder records key points and reports to class.
21.8. Harkness
21.9. Mindmaps. 1 - In pairs, one person creates a mind map from textbook on large paper on the wall. In silence, partner is opposite and can use information to either write short speech or create a propganda poster using the info from the mindmap. etc/
21.10. Living Graphs
21.11. 40 Second Chunks - pairs in A and B. Person A listens to teacher, repeats to B. B repeats back to A. Next up, B listens to teacher, repeats to A, etc.
21.12. Discussion Strategies
21.13. Connect, Extend, Challenge
22. Movement Breaks!
23. Plenaries
23.1. History Haiku
24. Revision
24.1. Speed dating. Then, each person then writes an A, B and C question related to their topic on the whiteboard. Whole class then aswers the questions for homework (only 1 Question C).
24.2. Thinking Quilts (colour coded topics)
24.3. Class tools revision wheel!
24.4. Revising Historical Figures - sticky notes on head, 20 questions to guess who. Then stick on board and students add significant points for each figure. Go over in class, write down.
24.5. Cornell Notes
24.6. Print out snakes and ladders boardgame plus 100 or so questions
24.7. Race - different groups race to read info and report back to writer.
24.8. Jigsaw - one group with different 'specialists'. 15 minutes writing notes, share with group. Then experts sit together, share and add. Re-group and report back new info.
24.9. Retrieval Relay Race (4 boxes)
24.10. Cops and Robbers Sheet
24.11. RAG and then Quiz using Reds and Ambers
24.12. Memory Palace
25. Blooms Taxonomy
26. Extensions and Challenges
26.1. QR Code Corner, Extension Activities Corner Create a fast-finishers corner or display where QR codes reveal an extension activity. Colour-coordinate the activities for each key learning area. – For example, codes on green paper reveal numeracy activities, codes on blue paper reveal literacy activities.
27. Feedback
27.1. Marking
27.2. Assessments and target setting
27.3. Reduce workload and increase impact
28. Higher Level Thinking Questions
29. Starters
29.1. Maths code breaker
29.2. History lesson starters
29.3. Do Now Sheets
29.4. Mega list
30. Technology
30.1. 28 ideas
30.2. Google Expeditions
30.3. Nearpod
30.4. Ideas for History class
31. Application
31.1. Parody of a popular song with relevant lyrics
31.2. Silent debates
31.3. Balloon Debate
31.4. Create a rap song (causes, main events, consequences)
31.5. Create a biographic video of the historical figure
31.6. Create a boardgame
31.7. Advice to film director
31.8. Create a film trailer: show best trailers on youtube, give out storyboard, tips on trailers (main problem and characters), info. 2 lessons.
31.9. Create a political cartoon - message, context, purpose.
31.10. Sort cards by significance
31.11. A Level Strategies
31.12. Drama ideas
31.13. Flipgrid
31.14. Socratic Seminar
31.14.1. Socratic Seminar 2