Ideas from teachers

How to incorporate model-making into geography.

Challenge students to see themselves as instrumental in their future and to understand geography's connections

Various opportunities that are out there for geography teachers to get involved with

Five areas believed essential to be an effective Head of Geography

Using a Story Map as a resource and a revision tool

How to prepare students for the A Level Changing Places topic from Key Stage 3 onwards.

Following training provided by the RGS-IBG Data Skills Programme, we have used the free ArcGIS Online system with our year 12 A Level students (we have around 80 year 12 students) for several years but with the new specification we decided to develop student use of Survey123 to help manage the NEA Independent Investigation project.

Subject specialists, subject communities and sustaining subject expertise

The training provided by the RGS-IBG Data Skills project opened my eyes to the lack of data skills embedded into our Key Stage 3 curriculum. For me, incorporating data skills into Key Stage 3 topics became a priority

Inspiring future geographers with creative learning

How three magic words can improve the length of students' explanations

There are myriad of different opportunities that we can offer our students

The benefits of being an International School

“Elaborate, elaborate, elaborate” : how my department support students in extending their written responses 

How to use the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) lectures to encourage pupils.

One school's experience of the A Level NEA

Teacher training sometimes gets a bad press - this blog highlights the positives.

Teaching about coasts when you do not live anywhere near the coasts has always been an issue in the schools I have taught in; for urban studies you can look out of the window or go for a walk but there is no way to easily bring the scale, might and wonder of coastlines to students in the inner city.