Secondary Phase Committee
Contacts
Co-chair: Simon Renshaw
Co-chair: Emma Johns
Visit the members' page to find out who's who on the Secondary Phase Committee.
Our Aims
The purpose of the Secondary Phase Committee is to support GA members concerned with geography at Key Stages 3 and 4 and to represent their views and interests.
What we do
- Monitor the views, interests, concerns and issues facing secondary geography members of the GA. In addition, monitor the state of health of secondary geography as indicated by data on numbers and assessment evidence.
- Initiate ideas for engaging and challenging teaching and learning ideas in the secondary geography classroom.
- Disseminate these ideas through workshops at the annual GA Conference, the GA website, and occasional articles and contributions to GA publications such as Teaching Geography.
- Represent the views, interests, concerns and issues facing secondary geography members of the GA at the GA Education Committee and to external bodies.
- Promote geography to teachers, pupils, schools and the wider community as a relevant and exciting subject.
We have led numerous sessions on a variety of themes at the GA Annual Conference; published articles in Teaching Geography on topics such as team teaching, Valuing Places, the geography of crime, using ICT to enrich geography, leading the geography department/self assessment and fieldwork; represented the GA in the QCDA review of the Key Stage 3 curriculum; and published several resources on the GA website.
Top Ideas
Every half term the GA's secondary phase committee produces a Top Ideas for helping you teach the secondary curriculum. You can view them in full on the Top Ideas page or download them here:
Developing Locational Knowledge
Exam Revision Time
Getting your students out of the classroom during the summer term
Geography in the Wider Curriculum
Primary-Secondary Transition
An Exciting Start to Year 7 Geography
Getting your students out of the classroom during the summer term
Promoting GCSE geography
Your new KS3
Notes of Secondary Phase Committee Meeting - 6 Oct 2012
The main focus of discussion for the first section of the meeting was the proposed curriculum changes. The GA are closely involved with these consultations. To help with this the GA have put out a consultation and members were asked to complete this and encourage colleagues in their schools and networks to do the same.
Emma Johns shared with the meeting feedback from the chief inspector for geography (given at the last EC meeting) at the moment there are no plans for subject specific inspections or a subject report from OFSED. The GA are hoping to fill this gap and have identified the main areas that are lacking in school are geography specific CPD and the inclusion of locational knowledge. This sparked a new top 10 tips on how to improve locational knowledge.
Past meeting reports
Download: 02 Febraury 2013
Download: 15 October 2011 Meeting Notes
Download: 18 June 2011 Meeting Notes
Download: 12 June 2010 Meeting Notes
Download: 27 February 2010 Meeting Notes
Get involved
The Secondary Phase Committee would like to hear from GA members who might be interested in joining the committee. Contact Simon Renshaw to find out more.
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