Colours in for a living; hardly ever stays in the lines. Bristol born. International IB geography teacher. 🇬🇧🇮🇲🇧🇲🇹🇷🇵🇪
Lima, Peru
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Here is an ongoing list of competitions for students to enter - some many not necessarily jump out as 'geography' but what's stopping your students entering science and English compeitions when using a geographical theme? docs.google.com/document/d/1…
I have been waiting for this blog. Since working in 100% EAL schools for the last 7 years I chose to complete a masters in TESOL & Ed. as a Geog teacher - why, because oracy is just as important as being able to write it down for multilingual students.
NEW POST: Towards powerful oracy for all. Policy and practice; possibilities and pitfalls teacherhead.com/2026/10/25/t…
To achieve top marks in the language section students must ‘ response uses consistently precise and effective language that actively strengthens the argument.’ that language has to be taught by the teacher for the student to be able to do it, it doesn’t magically happen!
I have just seen a tweet that claims oracy is a progressive form of teaching. Allowing students to debate, give persuasive speech or even a teacher keeping a log of when a student uses the correct t linguistic term as part of the ‘we do’ section is seen as progressive
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Anyone want to play 'Circle The Inaccuracies In A Single Paragraph'?
Happy to advise on a rewrite, @HodderEducation
Türkler kadar çocukları seven başka kimse yoktur; bu konudaki fikrimden asla vazgeçmeyeceğim.
No one loves children like Türks and I will die on that hill.
SEN UYU ZEYNEP KIZIM, BİZ BURADAYIZ…
Sakarya’nın Sapanca ilçesinde, sel nedeniyle mahsur kalan 8 aylık Zeynep bebeğimiz ekiplerimiz tarafından kurtarıldı.
O zorlu anlarda yüreğimizi ısıtan öyle güzel bir an yaşandı ki…
AFAD personelimiz Murat Ergül, kucağına aldığı Zeynep bebeğimizin uykusu bölünmesin diye onu usul usul pışpışladı.
Zeynep kızım…
Sen bugün yaşananları belki hiç hatırlamayacaksın.
Ama büyüdüğünde bil ki sen daha onların adını bile bilmezken, onlar seni korumak için seferber oldu. Seni kurtaran o eller, uykunu bölmeye bile kıyamadı. İşte sen bu kadar kıymetlisin, güzel kızım…
Bizi biz yapan, en zor zamanlarda dahi kaybetmediğimiz bu gönül inceliğidir.
Başta Murat kardeşim olmak üzere, afetin en zorlu anlarında kendi canlarını hiçe sayarak vatandaşlarımızın yardımına koşan, gece gündüz demeden büyük bir fedakârlık ve adanmışlıkla görev yapan bütün kahramanlarımızı yürekten tebrik ediyorum.
Cenâb-ı Hak bütün evlatlarımızı her türlü afetten muhafaza eylesin. Bahtlarını açık, ömürlerini hayırlı eylesin.
After working in the independent sector for half my teaching career I can categorically say it pains me to see teachers who do not think oracy matters. I know this because of my experience in taking students (and coaching) public speaking competitions.
As someone who is undertaking a dissertation at Masters level on the effects of translanguaging in placed based enquiry I cannot stress the importance of reading this if you’re interested in oracy in education. #geographyteacher
schools giving increased attention to language sounds good but it comes with many risks - the most obvious being the further entrenchment of deficit thinking. me and @choudrey_s anticipate this and how to resist it in our linguistic justice oracy framework doi.org/10.1080/00131911.202…
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Key stage 3 is ‘too often treated as a dumping ground for early GCSE preparation’, according to a new research report based on a survey of teachers – most of whom want change to this phase of schooling
tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
