11. Budgets Closure of BECTa / QCDA Removal of advisory support End of APG2 EBacc Curriculum time OFSTED 'criticism' Student voice Web 2.0 & personal 'tech' World events Teacher ‘shortages’ Job security CPD arrangements Fieldwork
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13. “ When the winds of change come, some seek shelter, others build windmills” Image: Alan Parkinson
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15. Tim Oates Chair of Curriculum Review Aims "embody for all children in England their cultural and scientific inheritance, enhance their understanding of the world around them and introduce them to the best that has been thought and written"
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20. • change • distance • diversity • interaction • interdependence • landscape • location • pattern • perception • place • process • proximity • relationship • risk • scale • space • spatial distribution • sustainability • systems
21. Literacy Numeracy Critical and creative thinking Ethical behaviour Personal and social competence Intercultural understanding
22. What is curriculum making ? “ the creation of interesting, engaging and challenging educational experiences which draw upon teacher knowledge and skills, the experiences of students and the subject resource..”
39. Student Experiences Geography: the subject Teacher Choices Underpinned by Key Concepts Thinking Geographically Which learning activity ? Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ? Living Geography & ‘curriculum making’
41. In productive classrooms there are three main bundles of energy that drive and shape the outcomes. First there are the students themselves and what we know about how they learn. Then there are teachers who use knowledge and skill about teaching to organise lessons in the most accessible way. But perhaps the most important resource of all is the subject. Why is this subject significant to students? How does it contribute to educational achievement? What is worthwhile trying to teach? What is relevant to learn? How can my subject be motivating, rewarding and enjoyable to learn?'
42. Whose choices influence 8X’s lesson ? Policy-makers Awarding bodies Textbook / resource writers School management Geography department: present and past Class teacher Others ?? Prior learning from other lessons Prior learning from geography Learning from friends and family Learning from media Personal experience What do 8X bring to the lesson ?
56. Geography teaching in decline – Ofsted The parlous state of geography teaching in many state schools is exposed today in a damning report by inspectors. More than 100 secondary schools do not enter a single pupil for a GCSE exam in the subject, according to Ofsted, the education standards. In addition, pupils’ map-reading skills are so poor that even pupils who had done a topic on Kenya could not find the country on a map of Africa. Geography lessons 'not good enough in half of schools' Children’s knowledge of capital cities, continents, world affairs and the environment is in sharp decline because of poor geography lessons, inspectors warned today. Without geography, the world would be a mystery to us Geography is the subject that contributes more than any other to young people’s knowledge of the world, writes David Lambert .
61. "may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published" - Geographical Magazine review Produced by the Geography Collective 2 new books: On the Road & Camping out now Keep an eye out for Discover Explore in September http://www.missionexplore.co.uk
62. Presentation available at: http://slideshare.net/geoblogs I am grateful to my colleague Ruth Totterdell for a document relating to the curriculum review and OFSTED that has been incorporated into this document as slides
