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Everything you need to know about becoming a Geography Teacher

Welcome to the GA's Become a Geography Teacher section!

Welcome to the GA's Become a Geography Teacher section!

We hope it will give you some useful tips for embarking upon a career as a geography teacher, including types of training courses available, how to apply, what it's like being an NQT and where to go for teaching resources and ideas after you've qualified. If you have any further questions, get in touch!

GA NQT Conferences 2011

GA NQT Conferences 2011

These one-day conferences are designed to give you the support you need during your first year of teaching. Find out how to develop a creative geography curriculum, learn to use web-based technologies and take part in some fieldwork activities. London - 3 March / Coventry - 11 March / Sheffield - 18 March

So you want to teach geography?

So you want to teach geography?

Watch our inspirational video for aspiring geography teachers...

Membership Rates for Trainee Teachers

Membership Rates for Trainee Teachers

Students and first year NQTs are entitled to the GA's 'Associate' rates which means you can get a year's GA membership from as little as £28.50.

NQT Diaries

NQT Diaries

Find out about the first year of teaching as experienced by four NQTs working in different school settings.

Training Options

Training Options

Find out about the different routes into teaching.

FAQs

FAQs

23 common questions.

Members

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Journals - Free Access for GA Members

Primary Geographer

This issue focuses on refreshing the primary curriculum, offering advice on planning for integrated learning and using the concept of place as a focus. It also includes examples of how three schools have successfully combined art with geography.

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Teaching Geography

The Summer issue, which focuses on young people’s geographies, discusses how we can use students’ personal experiences to help make a geography curriculum which is meaningful and relevant to their everyday lives.

GeogEd - Free online access for everyone

Geography

This issue features a series of articles that attempt to demonstrate the value of a geographical perspective in facing up to the current global food crisis. Article topics include the EU sugar reform and its effects on Caribbean producers, aquaculture in Thailand, and the obesity 'epidemic'. The issue also features a Spotlight On article on the URBAN EARTH project.

GeogEd - Free online access for everyone

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