Introduction
This area contains online CPD units and modules developed during the Action Plan for Geography.
The Training and Development Agency for schools (TDA) has commissioned the Geographical Association and the Royal Geographical Society with IBG to develop a selection of new tutorials for geography teachers to help them with their continuing professional development.
- Careers Education in the Geography Curriculum
- Community Cohesion
- Fieldwork Strategies
- Food Security
- GIS at Key Stage 3
- Introducing the Global Dimension
- Key Stage 3, Key Processes
- Migration
- New Key Stage 3 Curriculum
- Subject Leadership in the Secondary Phase
- Subject Leadership in the Primary Phase
- Young Geographers Go Global
- Young Geographers Go Green
- Young Geographers Go Local
These new courses explore the relationship between community cohesion and geography. Part One helps you think about the contribution geography makes towards your school's duty to promote community cohesion, while Part Two comprises three activities focusing on attitudes to leisure, hypermobility and homes and families plus a plenary exercise.
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| Exploring the Geography of Food A set of online CPD courses from the GA which examine how you can use food as a focus for your secondary geography curriculum. The courses cover issues such as climate change, interdependence, sustainability and globalisation and have been designed to help you gain TLA recognition.
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| My Place, Your Place, Our Place This set of online CPD courses from the GA helps primary teachers explore the relationships between identity and place by drawing on some key geographical processes and understanding. The courses link to Sustainable Schools, Every Child Matters and more. They have also been designed to help you gain TLA recognition.
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| Visit this area for three Foundation units, three Primary units and four Secondary units, all designed to help you with the process of curriculum making in your school.
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| Key Stage 3 Resources Online CPD Visit this area for a set of modules that provide a range of information, teaching ideas and resources to support planning for and teaching of big geographical themes in a KS3 context.
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| Visit this area for a quick guide to the fieldwork CPD resources located in the fieldwork section of this website.
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| Online CPD from Chartered Geographers Visit this are for a selection of downloadable CPD and inset resources written by Chartered Geographers. They will be for use during departmental inset sessions, or for you to use as CPD during your own time. Some will be geography specific, others will be more generic.
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Featured Course
Places People Want
There are clear indications that settlement as a topic has become too settled and is in need of a shake-up. We need to explore the dynamism of place and people's mobility. We can consider academic perspectives and place-making that involves policies and practical action.
Developing this understanding and skills can be based on the everyday and immediate. It can be used as stimulus to look out beyond the familiar. The evidence for communities is all around us. We can evaluate what works and make suggestions for where it doesn't. We have an active part to play in creating 'places people want'.
Does your geography teaching...
- seek a response based on learners' personal experience?
- explore the full range of skills for active participation?
- provide a conceptual framework for evaluating place?
- illustrate professions and career options with learners?
You may either work through the course in a linear format or you can select an individual section or activity using the course contents menu below and in the right hand column of each page.
Course Contents
Activity 1
What is a sustainable community?
Activity 2
Sustainable schools and local well-being
Activity 3
Learning outside the classroom
Taking it Further
The geography of personal experience
Skills for sustainable communities
Activity 4
Image as inspiration
Active strategies for using photographs
Activity 5
Place-making
Activity 6
The Egan Review: Generic skills
Careers: Sustainable communities in practice
Activity 7
Optimism and happiness
Timelines for probable and preferable futures
In Conclusion
The landscape of risk
Unit review
Activity 8
Safety and risk in our daily lives
Activity 9
Thinking about assessment
Your learning journey
Professional recognition
Curriculum Making VLEs
Master of Arts in Applied Professional Studies in Education (MA APSE)
The Sheffield University MA in Applied Professional Studies in Education is an exciting programme which is run in partnership with nine subject associations (including the GA) and local authorities. It is supported by the Training and Development Agency for Schools as part of its Postgraduate Professional Development (PPD) programme.
All students on the APSE course are entitled to free GA membership. Find out more about the MA on the University of Sheffield website.
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