Presentation from the LOTC Working Group of the GA from the Manchester 2009 Conference

1. LOTC Working Group “Quality Learning Outside the Classroom”

2. The Big Picture Manifesto for Learning Outside the Classroom Website www.lotc.org.uk “All young people should experience learning outside the classroom and its benefits, not as a bolt-on to learning but as a central aspect of the learning experience, the curriculum and the courses they are engaged with.”

3. www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk

4. A Different View

7. Senior Management

8. Colleagues

9. Participants (e.g. students)

11. Geography offers LOTC... ? ? ? ?

12. Having done the pitch... How do we make sure geography is able to offer ‘quality’ LOTC?

13. Allowing further independent investigation Analysing real and ‘messy’ data Linked to teaching topics What makes quality LOTC? First hand learning and ‘real life’ testing Engaging Relevant to the lives of the pupils Providing opportunities that cannot be achieved within a classroom Allows progression Developing skills and learning new ones

14. How do we get ‘quality’ LOTC into our activities?

16. How do we get quality in LOTC?

18. Some of our ideas Ideas from a housing estate Introduction Pupils consider the characteristic features of the houses. Style, age and layout of the area? What age are the buildings? Why did people come here? Do we all like the same things? How do we personalise our homes? Task Pupils investigate, by observation, the ways in which houses basically similar in design, are given an individual ‘makeover’

19. Some of our ideas Cloning of a High Street Introduction Based upon research undertaken by New Economics Foundation (www.neweconomics.org) into the observation that British ‘High Streets’ are becoming clones of each other by offering the same range of services through national chain stores to the detriment of local independent stores. Task Repeat NEF original survey Where in the High Street independent and chain stores are located? Are independent stores located in particular areas? Through questionnaires, what attracts people to chain/independent retailers? How do independent retailers differentiate themselves from chain stores? Do they ‘market’ their independent status?

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