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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

7 months

Books of 2024 Book 1 - Bit of a cheat as started last month. Lessons from the Edge by Aldo Kane 📖📖📖📖

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

At this time of year, when TLs are full of teachers sharing heartfelt cards and presents from their students, it is crucial not to take it personally if like me you receive nothing. It's just that the kids you teach don't really like you. Hope that helps.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

Today is the kind of day where you realise how important the role of a History teacher is. We constantly preach that a value of our subject is how it helps us understand our world better. Explaining complex situations like the events in Ukraine to our students feels like a duty.

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Tom Pattison

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3 years

Is it ethical to tell Year 12 to do the stripping back of all the displays in my room and claim it is a role play for Cromwell's impact on the Church?

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Excellent question from a year 11 today; 'Where are the women in the GCSE course?' KS3 is rich and diverse. I need to try harder with KS4 but the course specs really do not help.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Generosity of teachers sharing with teachers is everything that is great about the profession. Here is my contribution - all lessons, resources, entichment reading, videos, podcasts, etc. Basically this is my Mary Poppins bag. Please dive in.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

At the risk of opening a can of worms; if you are providing unpaid revision sessions in the holidays could it be argued that you are both undermining your colleagues and discouraging your students from taking responsibility for their own revision?

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

So I saw @sehartsmith 's KS3 assessment, realised mine were pathetic by comparison, read loads of academic wisdom about assessment in History, and then realised basically Sarah's was perfect. So here is my shamelessly ripped off version (with permission of course)

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Hell yes. CLEAN YOUR FLIPPIN WHITE BOARD!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Thread: I asked my Year 7 class 'What is History?' before linking to EH Carr and the new book by @sixteenthCgirl and @HelenhCarr to show that it is a question 'proper historians' discuss. Some responses...

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

As part of my big push on writing I made a guide for writing about causation. The students seemed to really like it yesterday so thought I'd share.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

Not very exciting but might be of use to someone. Thanks @teacherhead @MrMountstevens and @DavidDidau for the inspo.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

Hell of an image to start teaching an enquiry into the British Empire.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

What I learned from 13 years as a Middle Leader.

What I learned from 13 years as a Middle Leader.

When I completed my NQT in 2008, department leadership unexpectedly fell into my lap. After bluffing my way through my six-month audition I was given the job permanently and had transitioned from b…

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

This took far longer than I care to admit but it will be worth it if it improves my delivery of an aspect I know I've taught badly in the past. Cheers @olicav for the inspiration and guidance.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

THREAD: As attention turns to returning to 'work', I'm going to share in one thread some of the stuff I have been lucky enough to be involved in which may be of some help. Please share with anyone and everyone. I will pin it for those understandably ignoring school stuff today.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

I put together a guide this afternoon for my students wanting to delve into women's history and feminism. Massive thanks to @MrsBallAP @lamb_heart_tea and @SashaWHistory for their help. Link here:

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

As I giddily got excited about my new humanities stairs I could hear Partridge admonishing me. "Stop laughing, Lynn! You're laughing at weather."

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

THIS is why I teach Silk Roads. A year 7 in Essex gets it. Thank you so much @peterfrankopan

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Teachers being teachers the fact that our bank holiday is spent marking is treated with gallows humour and empathy with each other. It is a vital coping mechanism to avoid being a constant ball of fury.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Feels good to get my booklet done looking comparatively across removal of Kings. Thank you if you were one of the many who helped me out with suggestions and advice on here. Special thanks to @MissSayers1 @MrThorntonTeach @mrwmhistory and @SPBeale whose work features.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

11 months

This might help if, like me, the realization has hit that you have two weeks left and should probably get cracking on that planning. 3 years worth of History Frayer Models I've made. If you have your own to share please let me know!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

You could add a unicorn and it would only be marginally more unrealistic.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

1 year

Created an exam question planner for Edexcel GCSE History. The format is simple; model plans for each question type and then several opportunities to practice each question type. Feel free to download a copy and adapt to fit your options if useful.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

I know we seem like a stuck record in education but to release the JCQ guidance just as senior and middle leaders prepare for their first real break in a year is absolutely disgusting. It is becoming harder to refute the charge that they hold us in contempt.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

This website is absolute gold for teachers of the Silk Roads. Thanks

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

It takes a truly great teacher to make Norman changes to landholding memorable and captivating. I am not that teacher.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

I have written my scheme of learning for my Year 8 Silk Roads unit (building on my Y7 version I introduced last year). Constructive criticism welcomed!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

7 months

I meant to share this ages and ages ago. A huge slice of inspiration/ideas theft from the brilliant @sehartsmith "What does effective assessment at KS3 look like in History?"

What does effective assessment at KS3 look like in History?

A year or so ago, as subject lead I carried out a review of literature around assessment in History with a view to improving our approach. I meant to blog it back then but better late than never. K…

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Really enjoyed creating these for an upcoming unit on significant women from 19th century Britain. Big thanks to @mrwmhistory whose Story Source Scholarship model I have unashamedly adapted and to @whjm whose book gave me the inspiration to create the enquiry.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

Really looking forward to seeing how colleagues teach and students react to this unit on Significant Women. I have absolutely loved putting it all together.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 months

A couple of weeks back I asked you what is on your mind at diff times of the year. The resulting document for @WeAreInBetaPod identifies the pressing issues for SLT, Subject Leads & Teachers each half term. So... what isn't there that should be? #WAIB

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Clearly only reminding Y11 fifty times to refer to both interpretations in their edexcel 16 marker was negligent. A hundred reminders it is for 2022. Live and learn.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

A couple of days ago I was singing the praises of @missdcox classic blog post on effective revision in lessons. Here is a brief summary of what I did in response:🧵

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

Skills you never train for but definitely need: How to pad out a cover in a subject you know nowt about.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Don't tell me enslavement isn't relevant. It took me no more than 30 seconds to locate FIFTEEN households within a comfortable cycling distance away from me that benefited from ownership of other human beings. We have to choose to engage. [Thank you ]

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

1 year

Well this feels surreal!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Memories. The horror, THE HORROR!!! @Lyndsey1408

Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

@adamboxer1

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

2) THE TOOLKIT All my stuff can be found here featuring masses of magpied resources. If you have shared it, you will probably find it in here. If you want it removed just ask!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

11 months

Always love using this image when introducing the Mongol Empire. A comparison with the Roman Empire at their respective heights.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Thursday 13:41. Year 11 back in on Monday. Still no indication of what needs to be covered for their exams next summer.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

3) VOCAB Since September I have been making History friendly frayer models to introduce key disciplinary language to students. Feel free to use, share and ideally get in touch to contribute.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

Put together a very basic summary of the articles people kindly shared with me. Feel free to have a look if helpful. It really is basic though!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

On a less positive note - the lack of clear direction on what is happening for Year 11 and Year 13 examinations is reaching an unmanageable point now. I am sick of being vague with my students - they need something specific to work towards. This is not fair on students or staff.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

1 year

Stripping back great lessons into component parts is a tricky business. There is no secret formula, but this is my best effort at some scaffolding to make planning easier for our teachers at @HighSouthchurch . Big debts owed to @EnserMark , @shaun_allison and @atharby as usual.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

This is where I am at with my revolution frayer. Very much open to critique and suggestions. I feel this is a hugely important idea for students to gain a clear introduction too.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

1 year

Enjoying the challenge of leading fortnightly cpd focuses. Next two weeks we are revisiting Think Pair Share.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

I love seeing new ideas shared but sometimes simple classics do the job. @MrThorntonTeach I, We, You (as featured in @m_chiles book) for tackling our Y7 unit enquiry question. If you want to adapt the template please 'make a copy' here:

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

Teaching year 10 today. Explained how a good answer is a recipe. AO1 (knowledge) as the ingredients, AO2 (cause/change) as the method. A usually apathetic, reluctant group actually got it. Made me wonder - why have I never thought of explaining it this way before?

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

This is really innovative. Anyone tried similar using forms?

Disappearing Teacher

@AjaCortizo

4 years

Armada 12 mark q answer by MCQ on Google Forms. Included incorrect answer feedback on which was the best option and why.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

This is so impressive. @SPBeale is way too humble - I would be telling all and sundry if I was contributing to @thehistoryguy and @AnnaWhitelock in one go!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

I don't understand this unfortunately. Perhaps it could be broken up into smaller sections and put on tables around the room for me to find instead.

Sarah Brownsword

@Brownsword74

3 years

You know how universities are accused of perpetuating the learning styles misconception? This is from the DfE Get into Teaching Newsletter! 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

So much great curriculum cpd about - just a shame I'm unable to move beyond short term planning, medium at best. I'd love a webinar on how to adapt to Y10 missing a year of face to face teaching or how to approach Y7 and Y8 basically having the academic & social skills of Yr5s

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Has anyone embedded Cornell notes as a technique before sixth form? I use it on occasion in ks4 but feel it needs to be part of routine to be truly effective. Tempted by the idea of Cornell pads instead of exercise books but needs further research. RTs appreciated.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

It took ages but really pleased with it now it is complete. A GCSE question planner for my Year 11 taking them up to next summer. It will be used alongside directed revision (thanks @SenecaLearn ) and exam practice once a fortnight.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

🧵 I've tweeted recently about making better use of retrieval practice to make students think rather than just recall. That is not to suggest that factual recall is not massively important - it is - and I will continue to do it. However I do not think I make clear enough links...

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Found out last night that my 8 year old is reading the Hodgeheg at school. I have the fondest memories of being read it by Mrs Bousefield on the mat at primary school. It led to working my way through the whole Dick King Smith pantheon. I'm hoping history repeats itself!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

More than this student had contributed in the entire term in a twenty minute activity. Step 3 tomorrow. Promising start! Thanks again @MrThorntonTeach

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

I really hope this helps my Year 9's gain a better understanding of how Hitler ends up being appointed Chancellor. DM me if you want a copy.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

@Tasha_Allen @MissFolorunsho If us men menstruated too everyone would be granted 4 days off a month. Sadly as usual women are expected to 'get on with it' and be patronised when raising a valid point.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

It really struck me this week how much the history community has enriched my teaching and saved me hours of work. My kids weekly diet has been guided reading @SPBeale , meanwhile elsewhere @mrwbw , #histv explanations @missklunder and story, source, scholarship @mrwmhistory .

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

If your curricula could be taught at any other school, you are doing it wrong.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

This will let you automatically scan in barcodes of textbooks and they become available to set work for your students.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

"Empire is a prism through which the rest of the world views Britain." What a line from @Sathnam in the @historybookgrp zoom chat. #HTBC

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

Trying this out tomorrow; A round up of the challenges faced by the Weimar Government 1918-23 using Episode 63 of @VersusHistory and giving students the task of tracking the arguments with highlighters. The link questions will be used for follow up discussion.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Critical hats on please. How can these definitions be improved? For context, this will be the model for looking at events (ECW, French Rev, American Rev) and summarising the causes in each category. The floating circles will be where students decide % each factor was responsible

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

SLT gets a kicking on here - often rightly so - but managing people is a tough skill. Despite having a school to run my SLT made me feel like all that mattered was feeling better. The next time I inevitably want to whinge about a new item on my to do list I will remember that.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

[Thread] Teacher Tip: If your Year 9 are a bit fed up after a series of lessons on the Weimar economy, spend a lesson talking about Magnus Hirschfeld. Curiosity restored! Ok, there was more to it than that. See below:

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Had a brilliant conversation with students today about how we reflect on people's views from the past. I worry that students still go unchecked in views that medieval people were 'stupid.' Very easy for students to form that opinion so we need to be active in challenging it.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Might sack off my Y9 curriculum and plan a study of the twentieth century through the music of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

A reminder that you can access a collection of History disciplinary language broken down as Frayer models here. Feel free to contribute your own.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

I have created these as a structure for preparing my GCSE students for the summer. Feel free to copy and adapt if it saves you some time. We teach #Edexcel Medicine, Normans, Superpowers and Germany. Revision plan Handout guide

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

1 year

Happy Thomas Sydenham day. Wonder how they have squeezed him in this year?

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

Problem with reading @olicav is the urge to delete pretty much every presentation and resource I have ever made.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

My kids today are going all out to ease my return to work tomorrow by making me want to be as far away from them as possible. Such compassion in boys so young.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Tip for Headteachers: please do not start briefings tomorrow with 'I hope you had a restful long weekend.' Read the room!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Where has this site been all my life? Absolutely incredible.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

I had a great lesson earlier with Year 9on Night of the Long Knives using @mrwmhistory 'Story, Sources and Scholarship' approach. A highly efficient yet rich method of getting the students to understanding how our knowledge of history develops.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

Been quiet on here in 2020. Explanation: Arrived back with usual back to work blues. However three days in it was clear that this was more. I descended into full relapse and couldn't face school. A full day in bed in the dark followed by another on the sofa (progress).

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Feels good to finally complete my booklet to support my Y7 Silk Roads scheme. Huge thanks to @JudithCHochman for The Writing Revolution which has been the driving force for a large chunk of the activities. Not forgetting @peterfrankopan for sparking my obsession in the 1st place.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

I used this excellent, clear, simple guide to introduce my Year 9 class to Cornell note-taking today. So kind to share the resource so widely.

Impact

@ImpactWales

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The Cornell Method of note taking example by J Bridgeman. Super useful for retrieval practice & organised.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Listening to the first keynote yesterday at #WLFSHistory made me think how much I'd enjoy spending an afternoon at a London museum with fellow history teachers. Museum followed by pub and grub to chew it over. I'd be happy to organise something if others would be interested.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

"Let's not pretend that those railways were built by the British...they were built by subjugated populations and they weren't built for them, they were built for allowing the business of empire... extraction, exploitation and slavery." Masterful argument from @NadineElEnany

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Stumped for a lesson focus? Make a @mrwmhistory Story, Source, Scholarship. The new year is proving to be a lot like the old one.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

4) STRETCH This the folder where I store all the useful articles, videos, podcasts, etc that I dip into to stretch my students or support colleagues to boost subject knowledge Feel free to use, share and ideally get in touch to contribute.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Making plans for next year? A reminder that @MrThorntonTeach and I corralled some brilliant teachers to share bitesize guides to History specific pedagogy in our History How-To series. Lots even have video guides too which are linked in the post.

History How To

Welcome to History How To’s a collaborative project between history practitioners to share and model approaches to teaching and learning within the history classroom. We aim to bridge the gap…

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

I have a joke about primary sources but you really needed to be there.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

I quite enjoyed getting back to incorporating The Writing Revolution into my Sill Roads booklet after a few days without any work.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Honestly no exaggeration to say I use Simon's guided reading approach in at least one lesson every single day. So effective.

Simon Beale

@SPBeale

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Sounds like @WilkesHistory was kind enough to mention “guided reading” in his @OxfordEdHistory @AQA Kenilworth House Webinar tonight. Here is everything you need to know about it in a History How to which I made as part of the series from @MrThorntonTeach and @MrPattisonTeach .

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

The brilliant @kate_smee and @MrsThorne let me get involved with their profiling historians of black history. The plan for me is to use them for display. It would be really great if other teachers fancied getting involved. Reply if keen. Happy to share the template.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

And the award for photo guaranteed to adorn History textbooks for decades goes to...

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

11 months

I was gabbing on about Google Bard earlier in the week. This is an example of how it is useful - the text on this Y7 activity sheet is the result of part of a History Journal article rewritten for a reading age of twelve.

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@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

@MsGHist @mrwmhistory @MrThorntonTeach @KKNTeachLearn @Jmosley_history It's very exam focused I'm afraid but this does the trick with my lot.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

5 years

I've created 10 revision starter quizzes based on Edexcel GCSE History - Medicine, Superpowers, Saxons, and Germany. Hope they are of some use.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

A Year 13 I taught up to Y11 came to see me today for advice. She is going to Leeds Uni and has never even visited the city. She revealed ' you're the only northerner I know.' The courage of these young people. Stepping into the unknown despite all that's been thrown at them.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

1) #HisTV A channel for teachers to sign up to different topics KS3, 4 and 5, make loom videos to be shared for all to use. Feel free to use, share and ideally get in touch to contribute. If you signed up and haven't got involved yet - the door is open!

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

I might be late to the party with this but I have only recently discovered and it is proving really useful with my planning.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Planning some behaviour management CPD if anyone is interested. It's called 'Be like Jackie Weaver.' Perfect for a difficult Y9 group.

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

4 years

Using writing skills to build on the classic @SPBeale guided reading worked very well with year 10. I liked how they had to have a strong understanding of the text to compose the sentences. Would appreciate suggestions of next steps.

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@MrPattisonTeach

2 years

@Ankaman616

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Tom Pattison

@MrPattisonTeach

3 years

Last week I posted the I, We, You assessment I am using with Year 7 around @simon_schama 's 'A change of overlord was nothing new'. A couple asked to see examples of how the kids got on so thought I would share one that was completed today.

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