Teacher Education : work in progress

 

 

 

'Thinking about Geo-capabilities' - an initial activity

This video follows on from the 'Introduction to Geocapabilities'

video on the website home page.  It offers a way  for geography

teachers to start to think about the capabilities approach in the 

classroom.  An initial activity uses teaching of current topics to

help teachers use a framework to think how geography can be

used to develop the capabilities of students. 

 

The 'Thinking about Geocapabilities' framework activity sheet,

to be used in conjunction with the video, can be downloaded here.

 

The ideas and approaches in this video will be developed more fully

in a range of professional development and training modules from 

this Teacher Education page. We hope you will want to return to view

the modules as they become available throughout 2016  and that

by completing the modules you will make the  the 'geo' stronger 

in your geography lessons and your students will develop their

capabilities. 

 

 

 Four teacher training and professional development modules

 

The development of module content is currently work in progess and we expect the first modules to be available in early 2016.  You will be able to access the modules from links on this page.

 

Module 1.  Defining and developing disciplinary capabilities.

• develop understanding of (geo)capabilities and its potential to enable a different view of the world, through reflection on your own teaching schemes of work and by discussing examples of the geographical power of powerful disciplinary knowledge (presented as geographical story map 'vignettes')

 

Module 2.  Curriculum making by teachers.

• grasp the significance of curriculum-making and professional judgment as a deliberate act of sequencing and interpreting what pupils will do with the materials and experiences we provide.

 

Module 3.  Connecting capability with curriculum making - video case studies.

• evaluate video case-studies of teachers discussing and critically reviewing their attempts at curriculum making and what this means for a 'Future 3' curriculum

 

Module 4.  Curriculum leadership and advocacy

• develop curriculum leadership using 'lesson study' and 'practical theorising' frameworks to encourage a confident and collaborative understanding of how a GeoCapabilities approach might be used to convey and express the value of geography and thinking geographically in the curriculum and teaching.

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