Introduction
Making a knowledge organiser
The KO is like a scheme of work, but simpler and more effective. It doesn’t need ‘Do Nows’ and chunked activities; it doesn’t need to be differentiated; it doesn’t need lots of detail. It is a whole course and a two-minute quiz, a revision timetable and a cover lesson.
It is not a bolt-on. The only thing that should come before it is what we want children to learn. It should underpin every single thing we do in every single lesson at every single moment. If we’re teaching a lesson and nothing on the KO appears then one of two mistakes has happened: either we’ve not planned a coherent curriculum, or we’ve just made the KO because we have to, in which case the whole thing is pointless.
A KO is the curriculum map, driven by the requirements of the assessment, but that itself rests on what we want students to learn.
Full post: https://mrhistoire.com/2017/01/25/createkos/
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