Latest posts tagged with #OCRB on Bluesky
Humphrey Gilbert is one of my favourite Elizabethans because he is so confident in his abilities and he fails so hard. It’s one of the best things about teaching Elizabethans on OCR B, and it happens to so many of them. #historyteacher #GCSE #OCRB
#OCRB people, I have somehow been persuaded that a student who’s moved school will do the public health course rather than C&P (she’s picked up 3 unknown units, so I get it)
HELP. What the heck is this course? And can she sort-of self teach while she’s in with another class? #historyteacher #GCSE
I love this 'imagine you are a tour guide' approach to studying the physical features for History Around Us and what questions it throws up and what answers it reveals. This was a great way to review, revise and finish this topic. Shout out to exam boards that throw up interesting questions #OCRB
My Year 11s want the Essex Rebellion to come up tomorrow, they think they could destroy that question. I think exploration for one of the essays, we haven’t had that for a couple of years. #Elizabethans #OCRB #historyteacher
Here’s a preview of my talk that I’ll be giving at the fantastic @1972shp.bsky.social conference in Leeds 11-13th July. Get your tickets - it will be fab!
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Appreciated key phrases being emphasised as well, hopefully that will have helped with comprehension of questions #historyteacher #OCRB
Final key messages for History Around Us - we've really fine tuned our work on HAU this year with a much stronger focus on the physical site evidence. Always interesting to see what questions they choose and how they frame them. Good luck to everyone! #historyteacher #OCRB
Updated Knowledge Organiser for History Around Us (Helmsley Castle) - hoping this will really make a difference for some of our students to focus on the core knowledge and understand how to realise their potential on this exam
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Created some new revision resources for History Around Us.
Putting the site evidence at the heart of the enquiry. #ocrb #historyteacher
Using this claims/evidence sheet to revise some of the main themes of the OCR B Making of America course is working well to help students retrieve key evidence using the timeline sheet and knowledge organisers to help them
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Elizabethans Knowledge Organisers completed - one page for each enquiry plus syllabus, key words and guide to exam.
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The story of Witold Pilecki.
This was a really powerful story to tell as part of a lesson on the occupation of Poland during the Second World War.
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Finished reading this and I can’t tell you how fascinating this was. Watch this space for a collaboration between myself and @benbassett.bsky.social on how to use this story to teach the experience of the Netherlands during the Second World War for #OCRB
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My Year 11s have requested a revision knowledge organiser on Going Global as on their student voice they let me know I hadn't taught this very well last year.
So, here we go!
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Story of Walter Raleigh - worked so well last week teaching Going Global #OCRB
One thing I'm developing is using images from sources and fab artistic interpretations like Look and Learn for world-building.
Equally important to include historical references & planned takeaways
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Looking forward to teaching about Francis Drake as part of the Going Global enquiry for OCR B this week. So much interesting stuff to discuss within his story not least how interpretations and memory of a famous individual shift through time and why.
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Bespoke mark scheme for our upcoming History Around Us (Helmsley Castle) mock exam. Hopefully should save us time marking and support with consistency of marking before we even reach the moderation process
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This then leads into a guided practice style task to help scaffold some of the Q7 writing for #OCRB - plan to be able to remove such scaffolds to support students to understand this process independently.
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Last year I taught Elizabethan theatre via a Story, Source, Scholarship. This year I've combined it into one story using the source of Thomas Platter as a key driver. Really looking forward to teaching this. Thanks to @benbassett.bsky.social for incredible editing. #historyteacher #OCRB
New story - Henry Metelmann. I concluded for this one he ought to tell the story himself so combined extracts from his book with the 1997 BBC History file video with structured qus.
This story does so much not just on youth but also terror, control & disciplinary thinking.
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Made some tweaks to our practice sheets on Elizabethans Q6 and also ensuring the resources create space for teachers to decide what kind of practice to do - whether it's independent practice or guided practice. Scaffolds there but important to know right time to remove too. #OCRB #historyteacher
You know that feeling when you have a Y11 student who messes around a fair bit, forgets their book, you’re not sure they’re fully focused, and then they absolutely nail the mark scheme on the 15 mark source Q? ‘Start with provenance and purpose’ and he *listened* to me. #historyteacher #OCRB 😮
*AND* there was one a couple of weeks ago about women Viking warriors, and we know if we don’t do it for them, the spec doesn’t mention women! #OCRB (Yes, this is a smash the patriarchy dig at the exam board) #historyteacher podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
And last week’s was also Viking, about Viking travels, and that’s unit 2 and unit 3. #historyteacher #OCRB #GCSE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
