Introduction: Lorna Cansfield

(NQT):• Geography

• Travel & Tourism

• Environmental

Sustainability (Ext

Studies)

• Are you fed up with teaching the same old stuff day in

day out?

• What about getting through all that content?

• Are you comfortable teaching all of the syllabus?

• Can you innovate and create new ideas & approaches

for each lesson in a non-time-consuming manner?

• AS – very content heavy & too similar to GCSE

• Coursework – ACCESS to up-to-date case study material

• Variety of exam techniques required

• Lack of time• Lack of student motivation /

ability to study

• Not enough!• By outcome –

• grading, more critical of strong candidates and give credit to weaker candidates

• By task – • Putting the most able as group leaders

to teach the others. • Setting open-ended questions to

stretch the more able.• Research tasks

• Variety

• Do it for them!

• More media – videos / internet

clips

• Make it relevant – fieldwork days!

• Enthusiasm – bringing the

subject alive & making it relevant

to them

• Change AS year

• Set lots of homework –

normally more basic tasks

• Task sheets

• Lots of didactic teaching –

rubbish, but only way through

http://www.learningnet.co.uk/ubb/Forum5/HTML/002700.html

• Try Staffordshire Learning Net

(http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/) for ideas and to get

you on your way!

• Think about ways of approaching the subject

differently – teach how you would like to be taught!

• Thinking skills and interactive learning methods are

good ways to motivate students

• The infamous Interactive Whiteboard!

• Be enthusiastic and bring in your own experiences

where you can!

Key Questio

ns

Learning Activity / Method

Purpose and/or link to key idea

Resources

Web references (resources)

P16 PoS

Assessment Time

Integrate innovative ideas into your Scheme of Work

Ensure a consistent approach across your department

It takes time!

Teaching the Character of Place through Food and Music

• Maps and Visual material!

• Google Earth!

• Introducing literature – travel writing

• Pairs game for key words

• Group work

• Peer and Self Assessment

• Creative & varied teaching

• Lesson structure & flow

• Writing articles

Knowledge of learning styles at secondary school is handy!

Set tasks that extend the GCSEArticles for A-level study

Read and highlight – rubbish!

•Try ‘Mystery’ type questions

•Try ‘Facts’ and ‘Opinions’

•Try ‘Change’ and ‘Impacts’

•Try ‘+ves’ and ‘-ves’

Using the BBC and Guardian websites to search for topical and relevant materials, which

are relevant. A number of different exercises could be

performed by extracting information and then for homework consolidating

knowledge with tasks or essay questions.

http://www.synergyaids.com/CountryProfiles_USAIDwebsite/NamibiaEmergencyPlanFocusCountryProfile.pdfhttp://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/freshwater/our_solutions/rivers/projects/index.cfm?uProjectID=NA0011http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5376-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Case Study Name: Namibia

Location Map:

References (I did my initial search on google: ‘rapidly expanding population in Namibia’)

• CIA fact book on the country:• Population facts in particular:• Percentage growth per annum in population:• Issues of the growth (e.g. managing resources, providing housing,

service & work):

Information on the Case Study:

Choose a section of your syllabus or a specific lesson, e.g. ‘Conflict at the rural-urban fringe’ – how are

you going to innovate? How would you normally deliver something like this and NOW, how are you

going to deliver this differently? Think of an approach and some ideas to deliver your learning aims. You

could draft a quick lesson plan or just state a number of ideas for an overall approach!

Use the wealth of resources already available to you and be clear about your

learning aims! The ideas (and the how to…) come from you!!!

Get back to your department and begin a

plan of action!