3. Best Practice Review A review of the Secondary Geography Best Practice programme 2010 -2011 and discussion about the 2011 – 2012 programme. Garry Atterton/Tony Battista
4. The Ning and Bridge Aims of Bridge Accessing Bridge Adding something to Bridge This years dates Forum Questions GA and RGS links Tony Battista
6. National Curriculum and Proposals A discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the present KS3 curriculum will then lead to the GA consultation document GA national curriculum Proposals and Rationale. The group will then offer a collective response to the GA by the end of the meeting. Garry Atterton/Tony Battista
11. QR CODES and Geography Watch the Video Where do you think Danny Macaskill Grew up? What are QR Codes? Smart Phone Scanners How can they be used in Geography? Personal Geography Shared and publicised in local press/school newsletters/websites Influences/experience/good and bad/Happy/Sad Safe/unsafe – mash ups? Collaborative mapping Create Work, Upload work, attach a QR code, publicise through QR code Sharing personalised Geography stories of local area
14. OFSTED What can we learn from the new Ofsted guidelines about what makes an outstanding geography lesson? Tony Battista
15. Ingredients of an outstanding Lesson In pairs, attempt to rank these ingredients in terms of making a lesson outstanding How difficult is the task and why? Do you need all of these ingredients all of the time? Can you justify your top 3 or 4 and your bottom 3 or 4?
17. Primary Links Show casing of primary links and how secondary colleagues can benefit from links with the primary geography community. Sue McEvoy/Garry Atterton