Wednesday 18 September 2013

Freshly brewed resources, suitable for GCSE Geography


A few months ago, I worked on a short project for the COSTA FOUNDATION and RAINFOREST ALLIANCE, which involved creating a set of teaching resources around the theme of coffee production and the impact on those who are involved producing it. I'm grateful to those who helped me collect some of the information that made its way into the resource, which went live this week...
Check out the interactive map and teaching resources for download here.


Milk, no sugar....

Saturday 7 September 2013

My new book

Co-written with the great John Widdowson and now available to buy from the GA Shop....


Back to school...

Check my new TEACHING BLOG to find out more about my new teaching job and what I'm up to....

I'm off to a GCSE fieldtrip in a few weeks...
Will tell you all about it nearer the time...

It's good to be putting some of the ideas in the Badger book to practice... Get yourself a copy...

Intense but not in tents.... the Geography Camp


Over at the Geography Collective HQ, we’ve been making some changes and plotting some quality events. We are really pleased and excited to announce some of our plans for our residential camp in early 2014. This will focus on helping geography departments make sense of and subvert the current changes to the National Curriculum and examination system.

As well as the central theme, there will also be lots of informal activities, laughter, great food and fun. We are shaping the programme at the moment, but it will include stuff like:
  • Fitting existing Schemes of Work and resources to the new National Curriculum; 
  • Using young people to hack your existing curriculum; 
  • What to do about assessment; 
  • Using Key Stage 3 to improve GCSE performance. 
The final programme will be very much shaped by those who attend.

The style will be (un)conferency, with plenty of opportunity for informal chatting and sharing. As a school leader who held the CPD budget, we’re making it great value and will ensure you’ll leave with lots of ideas, contacts and resources.

We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be using the Field Studies Council centre at Juniper Hall. It’ll be full board and accommodation included in the price. The dates are Friday 25th to Sunday 26th of January 2014.

Go HERE to sign up and register your interest...

Follow and use the hashtag: #GCCamp