1. “In the economy of ideas that the
web is creating, you are what you
share, who you are linked to, who
you network with...”
Charles Leadbeater - ‘We Think’

2. Two (hundred) heads are
better than one...
Tony Cassidy
John Sayers
Alan Parkinson

3. The Geographical Teacher
Douglas Freshfield
Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 1 (1901)
‘In Britain, teachers are for the most part too
scattered and too busy to come together
frequently for discussion. They require a
medium through which they may readily
communicate with one another, exchange
experiences and learn the progress that is
being made in method or in appliances in our
own country and abroad’

4. Collaboration...
To work jointly with others or together,
especially in an intellectual endeavour
To cooperate with an agency with which one
is not immediately connected
Synonyms: band together, cooperate,
concur, conjoin, conspire, team up, unite...

5. Who with ?
Teacher & teacher (same school /
different school)
Teacher & pupils (same school /
different school)
Pupil & pupil (same school /
different school)

6. Teacher Talk - Dylan
Wiliam
AfL - corrupted and systematised
Teacher Learning Communities
(Community of Practice)
Monthly short sessions with 8-10
teachers to start to change
habits
Group goals and individual
accountability

7. Debates in
Geog Ed.
(2013)
(2013)
(2013)

8. Co-creation

9. Alec Couros
Connected Teacher
Connected Teacher
When I started
teaching...

10. Alec Couros

11. Where to go to find
collaborators ?
1999: SLN Geography Forum - Durbin & Russell
2007: NINGS for student / teacher support
2006: 1st ‘Teachmeet’ @ the Jolly Judge pub
2008: TWITTER (I joined on the 27th April that
year)
1893: Geographical Association...
Annual Conference

12. Local networks
Clusters
Federations
Teachmeet
Plus & minus...
Plus & minus...
Plus & minus...
Plus & minus...
Plus & minus...

13. Too many rooms ?
Choose one you’re comfortable in

14. Quality Control...

15. Ideas given away ?
“Why would I want to give away my best ideas ?”
GeographyPages - had a colleague who said an
assessment I’d created had been written by her
former Head of Department... a problem ?
‘There is no delight in owning anything
unshared’ - Seneca

16. League Tables
Data Dashboard
‘Competitors’ ?
‘Competitors’ ?
‘Competitors’ ?

17. Friendships

18. Wider collegiality
Support
Support

19. You can’t choose
your colleagues, but
you can choose who
you collaborate
with...

20. 2 sessions
John Sayers - SOLO
Taxonomy
Tony Cassidy - stuff...

21. A normal Sunday night….
Why did I leave writing this
scheme of work until the last
minute?
I’m not sure what case study
to use…
Why did I leave writing this
scheme of work until the last
minute?
How do I get my students to
understand this concept?
Why I did leave writing this
scheme of work until the last
minute?

22. What if…
I’m not sure what approach to Have you tried why did Mr
use… and Mrs Endo die?

23. Someone will have already done it…
But say thanks….

24. Someone will have already done it…
They opened a restaurant in South Wales…
They escaped and unfortunately moved to Montserrat...
They joined Mauro the shoe shiner…
They relocated to the Caatinga only to be forced to
leave…

25. In-house
• Practice Baps
• CITAL meets
• Teaching and Learning Newsletter
• Special Interest Groups
• Professional Development Library
• Good practice archive

27. From my Twitter network….

28. A critical friend
Work with @Liz_Smith –
Twitter interviews and Year 8
comparing their local area.

29. Your
tribe
Geography flash meets- not one
in a two years, time to
resurrect ?
http://bit.ly/13ROifC

30. • Schemes of learning and
collaborative writing
• Presentations
• Questionnaires and data
collection
• Collaborative work with
students
• Sourcing ideas
https://drive.google.com/
Collaborating
further…

31. http://bit.ly/Z21WF2

32. http://bit.ly/Z21E14

33. http://bit.ly/Z229YW

34. Learning for a pound
How could you use these
items from the Tesco range
to supplement or aid
learning?
Answers on note with your
name (if you want).
http://goo.gl/xyoih

35. http://bit.ly/13RN7wE

36. Options for further
collaboration...
Sign-up for Twitter & subscribe to a list
Seek out a Teachmeet near you
GA Branch meeting / writing for a journal
Start blogging....

37. An example...

38. And some feedback...

39. “Educational research can never lead practice
—great teaching is produced by teacher
creativity—but what the research can do is to
identify some avenues as more fruitful than
others, and also make sense of the practice of
effective teachers, in particular by identifying
which aspects of practice are likely to be
essential to success, and which are
idiosyncrasies of individual teachers.”
Prof. Dylan Wiliam Prof. Dylan Wiliam

40. Stalk us here...
Alan: http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
@GeoBlogs
Tony: http://sharegeography.co.uk/
@tonycassidy
John: http://sayersjohn.blogspot.com/
@JOHNSAYERS

41. References
Books detailed in presentation
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/anatomy-o
http://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/2013/03/3
0/afl/
Image: Alec Couros - shared under CC license