Geography: it tick(les) those boxes others cannot reach.
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Slides to accompany a Geographical Association's Secondary Phase Committee workshop at the Annual Conference in Guildford 2011. The aims of the session were to show leaders of geography how the subject can contribute to wider curriculum aims and how teacher of geography can use existing tools to introduce these to geography lessons.
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- 1. Geography: It tick(les) the boxes others cannot reach Presented by the Secondary Phase Committee Image: Peter Boden
- 3. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. Robert C. Gallagher
- 4. The curriculum is not creative. Teachers are.
- 5. Aims Leading Geography Teaching Geography
- 8. What are the Boxes that Geography tick? Photo Credit
- 9. Photo Credit
- 11. How Geography can help tick the ……………. box.
- 12. www.newtools.org
- 13. How Geography can help tick the ……………. box.
- 14. Sharing
- 15. Examples
- 17. PLTS SEAL Off timetable days ICT Literacy Numeracy Out of classroom learning Community Cohesion International Links Healthy Schools Every Child Matters
- 18. Commitment
- 19. G e o g r a p h y
- 20. Photo Credit
- 21. Aims Leading Geography Teaching Geography
- 22. @daviderogers davidrogers.org.uk drogersmm@me.com SPC pages of the GA website SPC top 10 tips for Geography in the wider curriculum
Editor's Notes
- Sometimes it’s like standing at a precipice. Like the coastline the educational landscape is constantly changing – but Geography is a dynamic subject that is perfectly positioned to be at the forefront of every school.
- Gove is not in my classroom, our department or our schools
- How do we encourage creativity and turn our learners into creators of media as well as consumers?
- What are the aims of this session?To give leaders of geography ideas to make the subject central to whole school, wider curriculum developmentsTo give teachers of geography ideas of how to introduce other dimensions into our teaching
- Look at the people around you on your table and have a quick hello if you haven’t already.
- I’m a great believer in community and networked learning. Geography departments that I know of are often small and therefore it’s essential to reach out. We are a community or network in this room now – so we are going to work together
- Write down ideas onto paper and place into a hat / display on the table etc etc.
- How can we get Geography to tackle some of these boxes? We have the answer here. We are going to use a technique we use at Priory with students when we want them to be creative. First a warm up……
- What geographical ideas could we use this image for. Talk to each other.
- Use John Davitt’s Learning Event Generator – demo. Talk to each other
- John Davitt’s Learning Event Generator http://www.newtools.org/showtxt.php?docid=737 also an iPhone app – taking a risk and unlocking creativity
- Use John Davitt’s Learning Event Generator – demo. Talk to each other
- Sometimes the journey can seem lonely or it may feel like we are taking a risk…Time to share
- Going to share some examples from the SPC ideas – there are plenty of ideas on the SPC area of the website – especially the 10 tips section which are a series of downloadable ideas.
- Let’s set our sights high for geography within our schools
- Giving Geographical context to skills and learnig
- Sometimes it’s scary to reach out past the comfort of the known but if school geography is to expand we must be able to show
- I know that we are often guilty of seeing X, Y and Z as Geography, this can be a knife edge balancing act as, the danger of which is falling off. I’d like to think of geographers as educators of children first, so reaching out to the wider curriculum aims is important. As leaders of geography we can show others how our subject can contribute and as teachers of geography we can easily incorporate these ideas
- This conference is about a network and I would urge you to build your own networks whether they be face to face or virtual.
- What are the aims of this session?To give leaders of geography ideas to make the subject central to whole school, wider curriculum developmentsTo give teachers of geography ideas of how to introduce other dimensions into our teaching
- Sometimes it’s like standing at a precipice. Like the coastline the educational landscape is constantly changing – but Geography is a dynamic subject that is perfectly positioned to be at the forefront of every school.