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End of semester brought wrapping up the slam poetry analysis with my Year 10 English class and a change of displays, moving from History to Geography. While I'm not teaching Year 9 Geography, a colleague sharing my room is so I offered to put my displays up for them. It also meant I started my second uni topic - Applied Pedagogy. A very interesting topic and I can see how some facets can be universal, regardless of the curriculum framework used in a site.
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 I was wrapping up some displays for Semester 1 and got the (potentially) crazy idea to create a resume for Adolf Hitler! I did use EdChat to help with some of the wording but I did this as a different idea for conveying World War 2 information for my Year 10 History class.
I am debating about doing "resumes" for other leaders during World War 2 (and maybe World War 1 - not sure on that one) but we shall see how we go. We're now 2 weeks into Semester 2 and while I'm not teaching Year 9 Geography this semester, I'm sharing my class with a colleague who is. Rather than my resources gathering dust, I popped them up for use in their classes. The amount of students, in my classes at least, who are surprised by the maps showing roads, railways etc is amazing. One of the many reasons why I love what I do.  In term 2, Year 10s study a unit, generally described as "Building a Modern Australia", looking at post-World War 2 society.
I generally break this unit in half; starting with Berlin Wall and the division of Germany, the formation of the United Nations, and finishing with the Vietnam War. This is the half of the unit that I have already created display for. The second half looks at rights and freedoms for First Nations People, migrants, and women since World War 2. This unit is still to be taught (all prepped to go!) and the display is still to be made.  Another term, another display up! I popped in during the holidays for one day this time (normally, I try to do 2-3 days to smash out some work - AKA photocopying - without the students there) and I used it to swap over a display, file some paperwork, and set up a seating plan for my Year 10 English class. It wasn't much (in the scheme of what I usually try to achieve) but I'm happy with what I did do.
 Our final unit for Term 1, in Year 9 History, is up! This one is Movement of Peoples and is honestly, not a unit that I've really gotten into teaching until now. It hasn't been one of my strongest ones so I made it a priority this year to do it justice.
On Monday last week, I decided it was time to make my classroom pretty again! I love being able to make my space welcoming and inviting for all students who enter through the classroom doors. I still have quite a few displays to go up, as they needed to be printed, laminated, and velcroed. And just like that, my classroom is all packed up! While I love going back to a bare slate and getting ready to start anew, it's also sad to see it so empty! I'm ready to rest and relax and I'm glad for past me who started to take displays down as my classes finished up. Made it through the school year, and I can't wait for a break before starting it all again next year. |
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