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Annual Conference - Manchester 2006
Here is a variety of material taken from lectures, workshops and teacher-to-teacher sessions held at the GA Annual Conference in Manchester, 18-20 April 2006. We'll be updating this page regularly, so keep checking back for new additions. If you presented a session and would like to provide your material for download, please send it to Anne Greaves and we'll add it to this page as soon as possible.
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Downloads
The State of Geography in Primary ITT (EY-KS2) |
Professor Simon Catling
What is the state of geography in primary ITT courses? What training to teach geography do generalist primary trainees get? Is it an important, even relevant, part of their training? This session considered the issues and examined ways to support geography in primary initial teacher training.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| The New Geography Curriculum - Transition Issues from A Level to HE (Post16) |
Simultaneous change in the criteria underpinning the post-16 geography
curriculum and AS Level, and the revision to the Geography Benchmark statement for Higher Education provides a unique opportunity to explore relationships and synergies for the advancement of post-16 geographical education. Three 15-minute presentations focused on the new criteria and concepts underpinning changing curriculum. In partnership with JGHE.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation (Professor Brian Chalkley)
Download: PowerPoint Presentation (Eleanor Rawling)
Download: PowerPoint Presentation (David Gardner)
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| Humanising Geography (KS3-Post16) |
Professor Danny Dorling
How do we begin to understand the human geography of the UK? How do we present emerging information on, say, social inequalities to a young audience when that information concerns their futures? How do we raise awareness of how UK human geography influences and is influenced by the rest of the world? This session discussed ideas about how new maps, pictures, games and teaching materials can be created and used.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation (external website)
Website: www.worldmapper.org
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| Come to Your Senses! (KS3-4) |
| Thinking Geographically (Post16) |
Professor Peter Jackson
This session demonstrated the power of geographical thinking by reflecting on some of the discipline’s key concepts: space, place, scale, connection, proximity and distance. These ideas were illustrated with recent work on the geographies of food and fashion.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| Too Little Too Late: Responses to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (Post16) |
Dr Hazel Barrett
Recent trends in the HIV/AIDS pandemic were examined and using examples from the developing world, national and international policies aimed at controlling the spread of this disease were evaluated. The global response to this emergency has been slow, resulting in unecessary human suffering and increasing poverty.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| Valuing Places, Valuing Teachers, Valuing Geography (KS2-3) |
Diane Swift
More than 600 hundred teachers and at least 2000 pupils have now engaged with the Valuing Places project. Many of the teachers’ curriculum sequences are shared via the developing website. Through emphasis on place, learners explored the potential of geography to develop an understanding of global interconnectedness. In partnership with Valuing Places.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| Geo-what? Where on Earth are we anyway? (KS4-Post16) |
Tom Bramald
Geomatics - the modern term for surveying and mapping sciences - is behind the measurement and management of geographical data. Supporting this year’s Conference theme, this session explored how free resources from the geomatics website project can help students see, measure and explore the world around them.
Download: Presentation Slides (PDF)
Download: Accompanying Notes (PDF)
Website: www.geomatic.org.uk
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| Leading in Learning (KS3-4) |
GA Secondary Phase Committee
This session aimed to provide practical ideas on how the strategy ‘Leading in Learning’ can be implemented in geography departments by examining how thinking skills can be taught across the curriculum with a lead from geography. Leading in Learning is nothing new, though the cross-curricular approaches are. This workshop provided opportunities to discover how Leading in Learning can make sensational geography, for yourself, your colleagues and pupils.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation (Sarah Watts)
Download: PowerPoint Presentation (Kathryn Stephenson)
Download: Workshop Documents (Zip File)
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| Citizen, State and Nation (Post16) |
Dr David Storey
This session considered the changing nature of citizenship in a global world by exploring relationships between individuals and the wider society at local, national and global scales, touching on issues of identity, belonging, empathy and responsibility.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| Sustainability Through the Broads (KS2-3) |
Nell Seal
This session shared a variety of approaches to Learning for Sustainability (LfS) using a defined local area as a context, in this case the Norfolk Broads. The session considered what makes good LfS and shared activities used as part of the ‘Broad Futures’ Project.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
Website: Broad Futures Online Resource
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| Specialist Status - The Five Ways Way (KS2-3) |
Simon Bird
King Edward VI Five Ways acheived specialist status in July 2004. In this session they shared their experiences - good and bad. They offered practical 'ready to go' ideas to forge KS2-KS3 links through fieldwork and an innovative geo-trolley.
Download: Presentation Slides (PDF)
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| The Future of School Geography: a Panel Discussion (All Key Stages) |
Chair: Keith Grimwade
Panelists: Professor Simon Catling, Paula Cooper and Dr Alex Standish
The headlines attracted by geography in recent years have not always been flattering. GCSE and A level candidature has been sliding for some years. And yet there is no more relevant and engaging subject on the curriculum, and in some schools geography is by far the most popular subject. Is there an identity crisis (again)? Has geography lost its way in some schools? Invited panelists made short statements about the heart and soul of geography (from their points of view). The Chair then opened up discussion.
Download: Word Document: Forum Notes (Paula Cooper)
Download: Word Document: Speech (Alex Standish)
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| Exploiting Video in the Classroom (KS3-Post16) |
Darren Clarke
This teacher-to-teacher session showed how video can be used to enhance lessons and as an aid to learning (not as an end in itself). These techniques are easily adaptable and transferable to all areas of geography.
Download: Word Document: Session Notes
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| Framing the Picture: Primary ICT Frames (KS1-2) |
Wendy North (GA ICT Working Group)
This session showed how the use of digital images and ICT frames can be used within the geography classroom to enrich children's awareness of their world. These simple strategies and resources are aimed at supporting non-specialist teachers in their increasingly ICT-rich classrooms. A page of information and resources from this session is now available on the GA website.
GA Weblink: Framing the Picture
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| Geographical Education: What should we be teaching? (KS4-Post16) |
Grant Kleeman
On the assumption that what we teach is socially constructed, this workshop examined the factors that influence what (and how) students learn and offered an opportunity to reflect on and discuss the future of the geography curriculum.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| Where Will I Live? (KS3-Post16) |
Diane Swift
How do the choices made about housing markets and design in one place affect others? How can we use geography to explore the large house price differences that are evident across England? These are the questions that have informed recent work in 16 schools in South Cambridgeshire and East Lancashire. In partnership with CABE.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation 1
Download: PowerPoint Presentation 2
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| Spicing Up Geography (KS3-4) |
Paul Baker (GA Independent Schools Working Group)
This session looked at how to attract pupils to continue their geographical studies on to GCSE. This included looking at how we can make studies relevant to today's teenagers.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| Children's Voices (EY-KS3) |
Field Visit - The Regeneration of Manchester:
Central Manchester Development Corporation |
David Gardner
An update from the QCA Geography Adviser on developments in curriculum, assessment and qualifications. In partnership with QCA.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
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| China - Sensational Diversity and Change |
| Public Lecture: Opening Our Mind's Eye |
Fiona Reynolds, Director of the National Trust
Understanding the world we live in has never been more important. The best way to do that is get out and experience the 'real thing' – the next best is to become a geographer! Geography opens our minds to the myriad of different connections between people and place in our past, present and future. In this lecture, Fiona Reynolds, the Director of the National Trust and a geographer herself, explored the role geography plays in preparing us for life, work and play.
Download: Speech
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| Alternative Teaching for A-level (Post16) |
Lorna Cansfield
This session focused on using thinking skills activities to deliver key components of the A-level syllabi. You will take away a range of new ideas to teach A-level more interactively whilst meeting the requirements of the syllabus.
Download: PowerPoint Presentation
Download: PowerPoint Game
Download: Brief Scheme of Work
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| Glaciers and Glacial Landscapes (Post16) |
Dr Peter Knight
Glaciers are important components in the changing global environment and landscape. Our understanding of glaciers is developing rapidly and our appreciation of the relationships between glaciers, climate change and human activity is changing in response to new scientific research. This session reviews recent progress in understanding the glacier system.
Download: PowerPointPresentation
Download: PDF of PowerPoint Presentation
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