Geography Teaching Today

Congratulations to:

CORBY, Michael
Michael is currently the Head of Geography at Aylesbury Grammar School in Buckinghamshire. Prior to this Michael worked as a geography teacher at Knox Grammar School in Sydney and Chatham Grammar School for Boys in Kent. Michael runs various fieldwork opportunities for his students, both in the UK and abroad, and has been awarded an Innovation in Teaching award by his Local Authority. He also won Outstanding Teacher of the Year award, and has initiated exchange programmes with schools in South Africa and Malawi. Michael has provided inset for the departments he has worked in, and has made contributions to the OS magazine Mapping News.

McINERNEY, Malcolm
Malcolm is the Immediate Past President of the South Australian Geography Teachers' Association and the Chair of the Australian Geography Teachers' Association (AGTA). He taught in South Australia secondary schools between 1976 and 2007 as a geography teacher, prior to taking his current position as a Curriculum Manager in 2008, responsible for Geography in the SA Department of Education. Malcolm has been involved in teaching and developing classroom materials using spatial technologies in Geography since 1997. IN an effort to introduce GIS into classrooms around Australia Malcolm developed a ‘GIS skill development course' for secondary students and a range of across the curriculum resource materials which are used in over 1,000 schools across the world. With the development of the national geography curriculum in 2009, Malcolm is finding his focus more on the work of the AGTA and the need to develop a state of the art contemporary geography curriculum for Australian students in the 121st Century.

PRICE, Peter
Peter is currently Head of Geography at Charterhouse School in Surrey. Peter was an examiner for OCR and is currently an IGCSE examiner for Edexcel and an International A Level Examiner for CIE. He runs a local network of Heads of Geography from Prep schools, as is on the committees for various working groups at his school. Peter has presented at conferences including the Geographical Association conference and IAPS Geography conferences.

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