Learning matters

Some questions to consider about teaching and learning

Do I plan a full range of teaching approaches to include the relatively closed and controlled approaches and the more open-ended and negotiated approaches?
Are pupils encouraged to build on their own experiences and to see the relevance of their geographical learning to the world outside school?
Do pupils have opportunities to pose their own questions and plan their own sequences of enquiry as well as follow mine?
Do I ensure that all pupils have experience of a range of teaching/learning experiences (eg individual and group, inside and outside the classroom, practical and intellectual tasks) so that they find their preferred learning styles?
Do I plan for a range of different learning outcomes (eg written, ICT based, practical, spoken and display) so that pupils of all abilities and aptitudes can show what they know and can do?
Am I sometimes provocative and surprising so that pupils are challenged to think deeply and creatively?