From 16th January 2012

1. “the only way to have a
good idea is to have a lot
of ideas...”
Winston Churchill

2. Mission Explore - creative curriculum design through
fieldwork
2

3. Making a
Difference in the
Geography
Classroom

4. http://about.me/alanparkinson

6. Last 3 months
• Royal Geographical Society - 3 projects
• Royal Meteorological Society - Google Earth
• Google - World Wonders Project - forthcoming...
• Badger: Better GCSE grades textbook - due April
• Ordnance Survey: Digimap – education pack…
• Twig: Notes for geography films & new films
• TeachIt Geography – editing and curation
• CPD around the country and EU
• Mission:Exploring
• Harper Collins: iGCSE book, online updates & children’s
book
• Open University: VITAL Geography portal management
• National Geographic Education
• IB Writing and Examining 5

7. "may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book
ever published" - Geographical Magazine review
Hay Festival / National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year 2011
Runner-up Educational Writers’ Award 2012
Produced by the Geography Collective
Also On the Road & Camping - Food next...

9. http://nqtgeography.posterous.com

10. http://livinggeography.blogspot.com

11. http://slideshare.net/geoblogs

12. Twitter: @GeoBlogs

13. NQT ‘Survival Pack’

14. What does an effective geography
teacher look like ?
What do they do that other teachers
don’t ?
Have you met any ?

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"

18. Some tips from
NQTs...
Ask students to time how long you talk for and
guess at the end to see how close you were -
try to reduce it by 50% next lesson
Have a “SOD IT” switch… flick it at the end of
the day as necessary…
Your idea ??

19. Mapping it
out

21. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
making’

22. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
making’
Student
Experiences

23. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
making’
Student
Experiences
Geography:
the subject

24. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
making’
Student
Experiences
Teacher Geography:
Choices the subject

25. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
making’
Which
learning
activity ?
Student
Experiences
Teacher Geography:
Choices the subject

26. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
making’
Which
learning
activity ?
Student
Experiences
Teacher Geography:
Choices the subject
Underpinned
by Key
Concepts

27. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
making’
Which
learning
activity ?
Student
Experiences
Teacher Geography:
Choices the subject
Underpinned
by Key Thinking
Concepts Geographically

28. Living Geography & ‘curriculum
Does this take making’
the learner Which
beyond what learning
they already activity ?
know ? Student
Experiences
Teacher Geography:
Choices the subject
Underpinned
by Key Thinking
Concepts Geographically

29. 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..”

30. There are only ever choices....
When choices are made and
accepted by a sufficient
number of teachers, they tend
to become 'common
sense' (Castree, 2005)
The choices YOU

31. “The Language of Landscape”
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32. iteration