Part 4 of Ollie Bray's 'Taking geography Forward' Presentation to Brighton and Hove LEA.

1. Taking Geography Forward Ollie Bray Musselburgh Grammar School East Lothian Council www.olliebray.com 4. Developing a new Key Stage 3 Curriculum

2. Every country in the world is currently going through an education reform

4. QCA Curriculum Change Films

5. Curriculum Design

6. Ask the students what they like about Geography, what they don’t like about Geography and what they want to learn about. 21 st Century Geography is not about your subject its about our subject

7. Use on-line surveys

8. www.surveymonkey.com

9. Structure your curriculum around the media: it’s the most powerful tool we have. http://www

10. Make the topics relevant to children

11. www.countmeincalender.info

12. Football is big business – but not everybody wins. Key Idea From:

13. The player This player earned around £1400 today for kicking this ball. (He scored a goal, with great skill) How much did this player earn today?

14. The football £60 The football is made of rubber and synthetic leather. It is top quality and would cost ….. … in the shops

15. Omar The football was sewn by Omar with great skill. He works in this stitching centre.

16. Omar’s Story How old do you think Omar is? How much did he get paid to make the football? 14 50p

17. Where does Omar live? The produce 35 million footballs a year. 75% of the world footballs are made in this area.

18. Solutions

19. Encourage cross curricular links and cross curricular projects

20. Teach more than the syllabus

21. Talk about today's Geography

28. Include a local aspect into your new curriculum

29. Local Interpretation within a National Context

30. Different Assessment Methods

31. Key Concepts Place Space Scale Interdependence Environmental Interaction Physical and human processes Cultural understanding and diversity Importance?

32. Key Processes Geographical enquiry Graphicacy and visual literacy Fieldwork and out-of-class learning Geographical communication

34. SR71 – Blackbird Fighter Jet

35. Al Capp comic strip, Li'l Abner.

36. Skunk works is a term used in engineering and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects.

38. Apollo 13

44. Convention Stage

46. Questions? e: [email_address] b: www.olliebray.com