Slides from a talk given at Durrington High School's TeachMeet on 19th June 2014. Talking about the opportunities available from the Teaching Standards Document and New National Curriculum.

1. Teachers’ Standard 4
David Rogers
@davidErogers
davidrogers.org.uk

5. Change is inevitable - except from a vending
machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher
He tells us what we can’t teach……..

6. ‘He told me very calmly that he had
broken his leg. He looked pathetic, and
my immediate thought came without any
emotion, You’re f****d, matey. You’re
dead… no two ways about it! I think he
knew it too. I could see it in his face. It
was all totally rational. I knew where we
were, I took in everything around me
instantly, and knew he was dead.’
Simon Yates in Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void.

7. A document is never going to be creative.
Teachers are.

8. 4. Plan and teach well structured lessons
promote a love of learning
and children’s intellectual curiosity

10. A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a
curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will
remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip
pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and
natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding
of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress,
their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen
their understanding of the interaction between physical and human
processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and
environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills
provide the framework and approaches that explain how the Earth’s
features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change
over time.
Purpose of study

11. A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a
curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will
remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip
pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and
natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding
of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress,
their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen
their understanding of the interaction between physical and human
processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and
environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills
provide the framework and approaches that explain how the Earth’s
features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change
over time.
Purpose of study

12. Levels are gone

13. Thanks to Patcham High’s Art
department and @PrioryGeography

17. Location
Sights
(most
important
first)
Physical
features
Human
features
Sounds /
smells
Feeling
Thanks to: Noel Jenkins

18. Make this…. …from this

21. Is your curriculum full of
JONK?

22. “Your are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more
amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here
to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.”
Woodrow Wilson.

23. ‘What gets you out of bed in the morning and in
to school?’
@davidErogers