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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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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. When you get a bunch of funky answers in the Year 10 Geography exam ... Enjoy! What started as two of us getting sick of being asked "is Hitler part of WW1?" and various other questions (and repeating the outline several times) turned into me creating subject posters for each of the subjects that we either teach, have the potential to teach, or currently teach. They took a while and did end up on the back burner while Stage 2 Media Studies was wrapped up but I am so glad that they are finally done! ** Post will be updated with the PDF's. 
I think I said that my last lot of displays would be it ... well, they've been added to. I've added some key terms that are featured in both of the current units as well as printed and laminated an alternative title for "Natural Disasters" - "Hazards" instead. Now, do I **finally** think my class will remain until its time to take it down? Yeah, I think this is it!  Our final units for the year! Geographies of Human Wellbeing for Year 10 Geography and Natural Hazards for Stage 1 Geography. Both units I enjoy teaching quite a bit (although I do have to encourage the Year 11s to pick a natural hazard other than bushfires for their final assignment!) but next year, I think I'm going to re-order the Stage 1 Geography tasks or maybe re-do some parts of the course ... we will see! One of my favourite excursions is the Year 11 Geography Field Study! After some behind-the-scenes stress, it led to a fantastic day. I drove the 12-seater van for the first time and thankfully it didn't try to rain like last year, nor was it inredibly windy like this years Year 10 Field Study. Now to get their field study reports in! More displays are up! I moved a poster to make way for the Harvard Referencing displays and put the Persuasive Writing Techniques up. I added the tourism posters for Year 10 Geography, not happy with the colour difference in the blue ones but I can't be bothered re-printing and Laminating them. I did - finally - get the Megacities posters up for Stage 1 Geography. A common misconception is that I make all of my displays. Yes, some of them I make but I honestly don't make all of them. I got some of them from Miss Keys Classroom on TPT and others from colleagues at my site. One of my favourite parts of teaching Year 10 Geography is the Hallett Cove and Glenelg Field Study. This is the third time I've gone on this Field Study and I learn something new everytime. This year, I had the new challenge of the wind. It was so windy but luckily there wasn't any loose sand, which made it a lot easier to bear! This is definitely a big reason why I ask to teach Year 10 Geography each year. It was great to be able to present some of how I embed questioning and metacognition strategies into my classroom and subject areas at the Week 4 staff meeting. This was done by small groups going around to subject tables and one or two staff members from those faculties presenting. This was 5 or 6 groups through, presenting 5 minutes at a time after a 5 lesson day! I'm not shy about sharing what I do in my classes nor am I afraid to speak in front of people; however, sharing how I teach and my processes to a large group albeit people I have come to know over the years, can still be nerve-wrecking!
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