Image by Andrew Stacey - Caravans near HappisburghJust been working on a keynote for a conference in July.
Putting the geographers
back into geography
GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY 7TH JULY 2010
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
- ICT Session (Tony Battista, AST Geography and ICT, South Gloucestershire )
- Student-led curriculum (Lucy Morgan, Geography teacher, Downend & Mark Jones, PGCE Tutor, UWE).
- APP workshop (Garry Atterton, AST Geography, South Gloucestershire.)
- 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
Thornbury
BS35 1HT
For more details contact Tel: 01454 862185, or email garry.atterton@thecastleschool.org.uk or Mark7.jones@uwe.ac.uk
