Essential Activating Prior Knowledge Through Retrieval in GCSE Geography

This on demand course provides extensive advice on how to activate prior knowledge through retrieval in your GCSE Geography lessons.

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  • 1-2 hours learning time
  • 4 course steps

About this course

This on demand CPD course provides a guide to activating prior knowledge through retrieval within the geography classroom, focusing how to plan your teaching to activate prior knowledge, the science behind activating prior knowledge, and the difference between novice, developing and expert learners, and what they mean for your planning.

The course also provides advice on strategies that effectively activate prior knowledge through retrieval, with topic specific examples.

Who it's for

This short online CPD course is suitable for all teachers who deliver GCSE Geography.

Course series

Essential

Course outline

This video talks through the different stages of planning lessons to ensure that prior knowledge and threshold concepts are effectively covered, including planning interventions, activating prior knowledge, giving explicit learning objectives, chunking and checking for understanding, in the moment adaptations, reframing questions, and scaffolding and modelling before deliberate practice..

  • Planning your Teaching to Activate Prior Knowledge

This video talks explores the importance of activating prior knowledge, looking at the learning theory Constructivism and the acquisition of schemas through connections.

  • The Science Behind Activation of Prior Knowledge

This video focuses on novice, developing and expert learners – what they are and what it means for activating prior knowledge in terms of what happens when they are presented with new information, and the levels of support they are likely to need to be able to activate prior knowledge.

  • Novice, Developing and Expert Learners

This final video looks in detail at a number of effective strategies that can be used in the classroom to activate prior knowledge, with a range of topic specific examples, and some suggestions for how to adapt for novice, developing and expert learners.

  • Strategies for Activating Prior Knowledge

Hosts

  • Suzanne Thorne

    Suzanne Thorne is an experienced Head of Geography with over 25 years teaching experience in both state and independent sectors. She has authored teaching resources and articles for AQA Geography GCSE.

  • Vicki Woolven

    Vicki Woolven is Subject Lead for Geography and Key Stage 4 Humanities at tutor2u. Vicki previously worked as a Head of Geography and Sociology for many years, and has been a content writer, senior examiner and local authority Key Practitioner for Humanities.

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