Curriculum Making - Geography Teaching Today

Introduction

Have you seen our three online curriculum making courses?

Subject Leadership: This unit lets you consider what it means to be a subject leader, explores how concepts help frame geography and how we can use geographical significance in curriculum making.

Geography as a Resource: This unit asks what it means to 'think geographically', explores the importance of enquiry and looks at the role of textbooks in the classroom.

Curriculum Making: In this unit you will think about curriculum making, bringing together what you have learnt about concepts, content and enquiry to consider how we might ensure progression in geography.

In the classroom, there are three bundles of energy – or ‘resources’: the teacher, the learners and the subject. Each brings something different.

We use these three in combination literally to ‘make the curriculum’ experience. Each of our own circumstances is unique in certain ways, so we often create our own local solutions to the curriculum.

Here you can learn about some of the materials and approaches to topics that teachers have developed by joining us, either at face to face or online events.

We hope that you find something here to inspire you. All we ask is that if you take an idea further, please get in touch so that we can share your curriculum making too.

Featured Article

Teaching Ideas

Author: Geographical Association

The resources in this section have been created by teachers attending our Curriculum Making courses during 2007. We are passionate about Living Geography and localised curriculum making and this area of the website shows what it begins to look like.

We have chosen examples of teachers' work which, we believe, demonstrate how teachers have localised the activities and underpinned what has been done with careful, purposeful thought. The chosen examples are NOT intended to be held up as exemplary or 'perfect' but as examples of curriculum development which teachers have been willing to share.

We hope they will inspire in different ways, but they are not supposed to be 'copied'. Interrogate them and see where they work for you (for your school and for your students). The resources can be used at different key stages - think how you might adapt or 'improve' them to suit your purposes.