Geography Camp Curriculum Session

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein

1Sunday, 2 December 12

ALAN PARKINSONFREELANCE

GEOGRAPHER

2Sunday, 2 December 12

WHAT DO I KNOW ?

TEACHER & HoDPARENT

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADERAUTHOR

CONSULTANTPRIMARY GEOGRAPHY CHAMPION

CHARTERED GEOGRAPHER3Sunday, 2 December 12

GA NC GROUPCurriculum Consultation 2011-13

4Sunday, 2 December 12

WHAT DO I KNOW ?

TEACHER & HoDPARENT

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADERAUTHOR

CONSULTANTPRIMARY GEOGRAPHY CHAMPION

CHARTERED GEOGRAPHER5Sunday, 2 December 12

CURRICULUMWhat is it ?

cur·ric·u·lum (k-rky-lm)n. pl. cur·ric·u·la (-l) or cur·ric·u·lums

1. All the courses of study offered by an educational institution.

2. A group of related courses, often in a special field of study

6Sunday, 2 December 12

LOOKING FORWARD ... OR BACK ?

7Sunday, 2 December 12

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADER

What did I spend my time doing ?

8Sunday, 2 December 12

“One aim of education: to be able to think for yourself, and act for others - let's build a

curriculum from that ..”Tim Brighouse

London Festival of EducationNovember 2012

9Sunday, 2 December 12

GOVE AT LFE12

“More often than not children are bored in class..”

“You can't have education without externally set assessment otherwise it's

just playing”

10Sunday, 2 December 12

MIKE TOMLINSON When designing a curriculum...

Start with what you want students to know and understand and the skills you want the students to

develop....

Gove is starting with the assessment...

11Sunday, 2 December 12

Students in Finland sit no mandatory exams until the age of

17-19. Teacher based assessments are used by schools to monitor

progress and these are not graded, scored or compared, but instead are

descriptive and utilised in a formative manner to inform

feedback and assessment for learning.

12Sunday, 2 December 12

Courage, Curiosity, Discipline,

Experimentation, Exploration, Imagination,

Sociability and ThoughtfulnessGuy Claxton’s Big 8 aptitudes

13Sunday, 2 December 12

A DOCUMENT

TEACHERS ARE THE CURRICULUM MAKERS

PROFESSOR DAVID LAMBERT

14Sunday, 2 December 12

METAPHORSSCAFFOLDINGROUTE MAPSKELETON

STATUS QUOPALIMPSEST

15Sunday, 2 December 12

16

"Should be compulsory reading for all university geography students" Professor Danny Dorling

16Sunday, 2 December 12

“Experience is the overcoming of perils. The word “experience” shares a common root (per) with

“experiment,” “expert,” and “perilous.”

To experience in the active sense requires that one venture forth into the unfamiliar and experience with the elusive and the uncertain. To become an expert one must

dare to confront the perils of the new.”

Yi-Fu Tuan 1977

17Sunday, 2 December 12

HANDING OVER CONTROL

18Sunday, 2 December 12

Giving permission...

19Sunday, 2 December 12

20

20Sunday, 2 December 12

SOME THOUGHTS

21Sunday, 2 December 12

First, using this resource requires specialist subject knowledge to realise the educational benefits of using it. Second, it requires the teacher to decide on a sound way

to use the resource . Third, it requires the teacher to able to 'place' the

resource really effectively - thinking about what prior knowledge would be helpful and how to follow it through and build on the understanding gained through its use.

Curriculum thinking is about having clear purposes and goals.

CURRICULUM ARTEFACTS

22Sunday, 2 December 12

CONTENT & CONTEXTNo more ‘CASE STUDIES’....

23Sunday, 2 December 12

24Sunday, 2 December 12

Noel JenkinsFANTASY KS3

25Sunday, 2 December 12

Teaching & Learning

26Sunday, 2 December 12

Geographical ‘lens’

27

27Sunday, 2 December 12

28

“fieldplay”

28Sunday, 2 December 12

Geographical enquiry

29Sunday, 2 December 12

Freedom/Risk30Sunday, 2 December 12

ExploreExperimentExperienceExpertise

31Sunday, 2 December 12

M:E CURRICULUMMission Based

32Sunday, 2 December 12

BADGESLearning badges e.g. Mozilla...

33Sunday, 2 December 12

CURRICULUM ESSENTIALS / ARTEFACTS

Give me five....I’ll be leaving at 1.30....

Place / Space / Scale / Environment / Sustainability / Interdependence /

Consumption / Futures / Urbanisation / Technology / Pedagogy / Mobile learning /

Resourcing / CPD / Collaboration / Networks

34Sunday, 2 December 12

THANKS

a.parkinson@gmail.com@GeoBlogs

http://livinggeography.blogspot.com

35Sunday, 2 December 12