After Chat class reflection activity
This 5-minute plenary will help your class reflect on their learning after the Chat. The question prompts are designed to facilitate discussion among your class.
There are 3 sets of questions. Choose the section that you would like to explore: Careers understanding, Communication skills, or Subject knowledge.
| Discussion for all sections | HOW MANY DO? |
| Do you feel like you had anything in common with any of the geographers? | |
| Option 1: Careers understanding questions | HOW MANY DO/DID/ARE? |
| Did you discover a new career using geography that you hadn’t heard of before? | |
| Are you now more interested in a career using geography than before our Chat? | |
| Do you feel clearer on the qualifications you need to go into a geography-related career? | |
| If you had to describe one of the geographers’ jobs to a friend, how would you? | DISCUSSION POINT |
Option 2: Communication skills questions | HOW MANY DO/DID? |
| Do you feel more confident asking questions to geographers than you did before our Chat? | |
| Do you feel that the geographers were interested in your questions? | |
| Do you feel that you had a conversation with a geographer involving more than 1 question? | |
| Did you discuss an answer that you received with someone else in the class? | |
| Would you have asked any of your questions differently? How? | DISCUSSION POINT |
Option 3: Subject knowledge questions | HOW MANY DO/DID? |
| Did you learn something that you didn’t know before? | |
| Do you plan to find out more about something that was discussed in the Chat? | |
| Do you better understand how the learning we do in class connects to how geographers work than you did before our Chat? | |
What surprised you during the Chat? | DISCUSSION POINT |