Its maps and local places change to show each school's own area: its streets, hills, castles and old workplaces. Pick your school to see the lesson as your class would.
Its maps, and the words in yellow, are that school's own local places.
Choose another schoolWelcome to this short, practical course on running the Junior Cycle Geography Classroom-Based Assessments. You already know your geography. These four lessons focus on the part that is hard to run: three weeks of inquiry for a whole class, keeping the work the students' own, judging it on balance, and getting through SLAR.
This first lesson covers, in order: a confidence baseline for your Professional Learning Portfolio, the current arrangements and this year's date windows, both CBAs at a glance, and planning the weeks back from the SLAR meeting. By the end you will have your class's CBA dates sketched and the CBA class planner ready to adapt.
Complete this short baseline confidence audit before you go further. Rate each statement honestly on a 1 to 5 scale. There are no right answers. You will retake the same five statements at the end of the course so you can see how far you have come. Your responses become the first entry in your Professional Learning Portfolio, which compiles into a downloadable record when you finish.
Watch this short presentation for the welcome, the four lessons ahead, the current arrangements and date windows, both CBAs at a glance, and the planning move of working back from the SLAR meeting.
Read this filled CBA class planner for an invented second-year class running Geography in the News. It uses week numbers, never calendar dates, because real dates depend on each school's calendar and holidays. Study the annotations: each names a choice and why it matters. The week-by-week split of the three weeks is our suggestion; the guidelines give the order of the inquiry, not a week-by-week plan.
Download the blank planner to adapt for your own class: CBA class planner (Word).
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