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

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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.

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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

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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?

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Primary Links

• Show casing of primary links and how secondary colleagues can benefit from links with the primary geography community.

Sue McEvoy/Garry Atterton