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Teacher Education Working Group

Contact

Chair: Melanie Norman
Email: m.j.norman@brighton.ac.uk

Our Aims

The purpose of the Teacher Education Working Group is to support GA members and others by reviewing the educational landscape as it affects teacher education, looking for patterns, connections, issues and implications and by initiating actions in response. This will involve:

  • Monitoring the impact of changes to teacher education affecting initial teacher education and continuous professional development for teachers of geography for the 3-19 age range.
  • Initiating discussions, surveys and other activities
  • Disseminating outcomes through conference presentations and publications
  • Representing the Geographical Association in matters related to Teacher Education.

What we do

We meet each term and our membership represents as wide a range of ITE interest as possible. This enables us to receive information on developments affecting ITE from a number of directions and to bring varied experience to focus on them. Reponses have included surveys, articles, published materials, conferences and contributions to the GA’s Annual Conference, joint working with other organisations and representations to official bodies.

We provide guidance and support in relation to curriculum change by delivering workshops and lectures at the GA's Annual conference, contributing sessions to the PGCE/NQT event at conference and helping to organise and contribute to regional conferences.

Other information

Our members include higher education tutors involved in ITE and continuing professional development, primary and secondary school teachers involved in ITE and CPD, a Local Authority adviser involved in CPD and a former Ofsted ITT Inspector for geography.


(Updated 23.07.09)

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