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Lead Geography Departments
Welcome to the Lead Departments in Geography area. Funded through the Excellence in Cities initiative, this project provides the opportunity to celebrate innovative leadership in geography education. It also enables geography departments to discover ways to share experience and encourage good subject leadership across secondary schools.
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What is an excellent department? What are its characteristics? Does it simply follow good fortune when a department is judged to be ‘good’? Is it a result of good funding, a supportive senior management, a bunch of colleagues who get on well? Or is it more a matter of embedding high professional standards? How important is good administration, good management, good leadership – or are these categories basically synonymous?
The Lead Departments in Geography project will help clarify such matters. It involves Redcar & Cleveland, Salford and Sheffield local education authorities. Secondary schools were invited to apply to become a lead department at a launch meeting (February 2003). Teachers were inducted into strenuous criteria, against which a department could make the case. Selected departments were rewarded with the challenge of working productively with partner departments – to listen, support, suggest and to look forward to improvement (which almost certainly would be mutual).
- Subject leadership is an increasing priority of the Association: this was good way of learning more and becoming involved. (See also Leading Geography.)
- We have several mechanisms for disseminating interesting and worthwhile practice – the journals, publications, conference – and this website
- This website provides a way of discussing effective subject leadership and allows departments to share material online - to which departments involved in this project could give the lead.
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