Cambridge SSAT Event

“Compelling Learning Experiences - Ensuring Pupil Engagement and Progress in the Geography Classroom"

Wednesday 24^th February 2010

St Bede’s Inter-Church School, Birdwood Road, Cambridge CB1 3TD

9.30 - 10.00 Arrival and Refreshments.

10.00 - 11.00 ‘Thinking inside the box’ Amanda Alderton SSAT Lead Practitioner– ‘learning from objects’ for enquiry and questioning. Why let the Historians have all the fun with museum object boxes? Struggling to get pupils out of school for fieldwork? Bring the museum to the classroom!

11.00 - 11.20 Refreshments.

11.20 - 12.20 ‘Questioning Geography’ David Beresford County Council Advisor and Advanced Skills Teacher– looking at engaging pupils through images, developing questioning, active learning and thinking skills.

12.20 -1.20 ‘Look at it this way: A different View’ Alan Parkinson GA Secondary Development Curriculum Leader - the session will focus on the GA’s ‘manifesto’ for school geography and showcase some of the associated activities, as well as some suggestions for using the “social web” to enhance student engagement.

1.20 – 2.20 Lunch.

2.20 – 3.20 ‘Making the most of your Free OS Maps – Katherine Hutchinson GA Regional Subject Advisor – a look at ways to make the most of OS maps.

3.20pm Refreshments and Evaluation.

See you there perhaps...

Materials will appear on Slideshare