How to be a humanities specialist school

Standing out: Building outstanding geography departments

Author: Paula Cooper CGeog, King Edward VI Five Ways School

• Inset presentation (PPT)
• Guidance notes (PDF)

Funded by the DfE funded Action Plan for Geography.

Author: Alan Kinder CGeog

• Presentation notes PDF | MSWORD
• Curriculum Making (PPT)
• Balloon debate grid PDF | MSWORD
• Curriculum making outline plan PDF | MSWORD
• Justifying content table (JPG)
• Why teach the Olympics extract PDF | MSWORD

Funded by the DfE funded Action Plan for Geography.

Author: Alan Kinder CGeog

• Session ideas PDF | MSWORD
• Good to outstanding (PPT)
• Outstanding descriptor PDF | MSWORD
• Video observation PDF | MSWORD
• Unit two handouts (PDF)
• From good to outstanding draft guidance PDF | MSWORD
• Quality of teaching summary PDF | MSWORD
• From good to outstanding PDF | MSWORD
• Introducing the SGQM (PPT)
• Lockwood extract (JPG)
• Lockwood PGCE quality (PDF)
• Map (JPG)
• Subject specific evaluation criteria PDF | MSWORD

Funded by the DfE funded Action Plan for Geography. 

• Session Ideas (PDF)
• Raising the bar (PPT)
• Building assessment into planning (PDF)
• Geography APP (PDF)
• Level three field sketch (JPG)
• Level five local fieldwork (JPG)
• Figure 10 (PDF)
• Progression (PDF)
• Science Level four (JPG)
• Level four abridged commentary (PDF)
• Level four Chewing gum graph (JPG)
• Level four Chewing gum map (PDF)
• Level four litter letter (PDF)
• Level four pupil work (PPT)
• Level seven Easter Island account (PDF)
• Level seven Fashion essay (PDF)
• Level seven Geography exemplification standards (PDF)
• Level seven Kenya website (PDF) 
• Level seven Kenya website (PPT)
• Level seven mind map (JPG)
• Level seven website log (JPG)
• Level eight conclusion (JPG)
• Level eight conclusion text (PDF)
• Level eight earthquake conclusion (PDF)
• Level eight olympics presentation (PDF)
• Level eight St Helen essay (PDF)

Funded by the DfE funded Action Plan for Geography. 

Author: Ben Ward, Penwortham Girls High School

• Inset presentation (PPT)
• Presentation guidance notes PDF | MSWORD
• Pre course task PDF | MSWORD
• Handout - Intelligence questionnaire PDF | MSWORD
• Handout - Able pupil identification PDF | MSWORD

Funded by the DfE funded Action Plan for Geography. 

Author: Adrian Taylor CGeog, St Marys RC High School

• Introduction (PDF)
• Two examples of the documentation from the TDA - the standards (PDF) and a framework (PDF) 
• Professional development career portfolio (PDF) - a framework to record and plan your professional development
• Career profile (TDA standards) (PDF) - a professional development planning tool which also related to the requirements of the CGeog (Teacher). Also in excel format (XLS)
• TDA help cards (PDF) - resource cards for the training session
• TDA standards to improve teaching and learning (PDF) - a presentation for the training session

Funded by the DfE funded Action Plan for Geography. 

Author: Alan Kinder CGeog 

• Presentation notes PDF | MSWORD
• Assessment (PPT)
• Acceptable or Not PDF | MSWORD
• Geography Assessment Guidelines PDF | MSWORD
• Geography APP (PDF)
• Why Assess PDF | MSWORD

Funded by the DfE funded Action Plan for Geography.

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