Best Practice Sept 30th 2011
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Best Practice September 30th 2011
BSCSTony Battista/Garry Atterton
Outstanding, Effective and Exciting Geography
The OutlineTimings FOCUS
Welcome, review and planning9.00 - 9.15 Garry Atterton and Tony Battista. 9.15 - 9.30 Garry Atterton and Tony Battista 9.30 -11.15 Garry Atterton
11.15 - 11.30 break and refreshments 11.30 -12.30 Geography and ICT - Tony Battista 12.30 -1.30 lunch and networking 1.30 -3.15 Outstanding, effective and exciting Geography.Tony Battista and OFSTED Garry Atterton and Sue McEvoy 3.15-3.30 – AOB
A review of the Secondary Geography Best Practice programme 2010 -2011 and discussion about the 2011 – 2012 programme. Ning and the BRIDGE will be paraded to show how links are going to be enhanced with the existing wider geography community. 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. This will run throughout all three sessions and will follow very successful previous sessions on Geography websites, GIS and QR codes. What can we learn from the new Ofsted guidelines about what makes an outstanding geography lesson? There will also be show casing of primary links and how secondary colleagues can benefit from links with the primary geography community.
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
The Ning and Bridge
• Aims of Bridge• Accessing Bridge• Adding something to Bridge• This years dates• Forum Questions• GA and RGS links
Tony Battista
Share a Resource
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
Share a Resource
ICT
• What is Good ICT• Geography Websites• QR Codes and Geography?
Tony Battista
ICT Websites
• http://www.buildamap.com/• http://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/• http://
aqageog.ning.com/forum/topics/volcano-case-studies
• http://blackpoolsixthasgeography.pbworks.com/w/page/22843939/Rivers%2C%20Floods%20and%20Management%20%28Physical%20Core%29
ICT Websites
• http://www.geography-map-games.com/geography-games-My-scores-_pageid67.html
• http://devdata.worldbank.org/DataVisualizer/• http://www.police.uk/• http://audioboo.fm/• http://goanimate.com/• http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html• http://mrhardy.wikispaces.com/Rainforest.swf
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
QR Codes
• http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2009/04/exploring-personal-geographies-with-qr-codes-part-1/
• Watch the Video• Where do you think Danny Macaskill Grew
up?• Read Article
Share a Resource
OFSTED
• What can we learn from the new Ofsted guidelines about what makes an outstanding geography lesson?
Tony Battista
Ingredients of an outstanding LessonIn pairs, attempt to rank these ingredients in
terms of making a lesson outstanding
Can you justify your top 3 or 4 and your bottom 3 or 4?
How difficult is the task and why?
Do you need all of these ingredients all of the time?
Share a Resource
Primary Links
• Show casing of primary links and how secondary colleagues can benefit from links with the primary geography community.
Sue McEvoy/Garry Atterton
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