Bristol - keynoting...

Image by Andrew Stacey - Caravans near Happisburgh

Just been working on a keynote for a conference in July.
It's been interesting reading up on curriculum design to update my thinking...

Putting the geographers

back into geography

GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS CONFERENCE

WEDNESDAY 7TH JULY 2010

School of Education, University of the West of England

PROGRAMME DETAILS

9.00–9.30 Registration and Welcome

9.30 –10.25 Keynote. Alan Parkinson (Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association) including questions from the audience

10:30-11:15 Market Place. Geography teachers sharing best practice and classroom ideas (such as differentiated objectives, embedding the PLTS, peer and self-assessment, learning logs, learning challenge, local issues, controlled assessments).

11.15– 11.35 Coffee

11.35-12:35 Choice of workshops from

  1. ICT Session (Tony Battista, AST Geography and ICT, South Gloucestershire )
  2. Student-led curriculum (Lucy Morgan, Geography teacher, Downend & Mark Jones, PGCE Tutor, UWE).
  3. APP workshop (Garry Atterton, AST Geography, South Gloucestershire.)
  4. Geography clipbank (Channel four)

12.30 – 1.10 Lunch

1.15 – 3.15

1:15- 1:50 University and school geographies – updating subject knowledge – choice of 2 workshops delivered by University lectures from the school of geography and Environmental management, UWE.

1:50- 2:25 Second workshop.

2:30-3:15

A levels (geography teachers working in Awarding Body groups exchanging ideas related to stretch and challenge, A2 fieldwork, synopticity)

11-16 schools and PGCE students session with Mark Jones (Using PDAs for mobile learning)

3.15 -3.45

Coffee, next steps, contribution to local and national networks

3.45 Close

Cost:

PGCE students starting 2010 £5:00

PGCE students 2009-2010 £5:00

Non- South Gloucestershire schools £40:00

Second member of staff from South Gloucestershire schools £40:00

Please send a cheque made payable to ‘South Gloucestershire Local Authority ’

Please send booking form and cheque for £5:00 or £40:00 made payable to ‘South Gloucestershire Local Authority’) to:

Garry Atterton (AST Geography)

The Castle School, Park Road,

Thornbury

South Gloucestershire.

BS35 1HT

For more details contact Tel: 01454 862185, or email garry.atterton@thecastleschool.org.uk or Mark7.jones@uwe.ac.uk

One of the features of the session is on curriculum making.

I am going to be showing my "ideal" KS3 plan...

What would you have as the essentials for KS3 geography in terms of content and skills ?

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