An exciting opportunity for teachers who have been 'around' for a while is available if you're quick. A special 6 day course has been organised by the Ordnance Survey, along with the Goldsmith's company.
Science for Society Course: New Developments in Physical Geography 15th-20th July 2012
This course is designed for mid-career specialist geography teachers in secondary schools who are teaching GCSE / A level students. The emphasis is on physical geography, providing an intensive immersion in new technology for data collection, analysis and modelling. The course includes an introduction to new equipment for field and laboratory, and explores recent developments in remote sensing and GIS technologies, and their application to teaching.
Full day visits to both Met Office and Ordnance Survey are included.
The course is provided by the Geography Department of the University of Southampton and Ordnance Survey in association with The Goldsmiths’ Company, under their Science for Society initiative.
On Thursday 19th July delegates on this course will join all the teachers on the 2012 Science for Society courses for a Gala Dinner at Goldsmith’s Hall, London.
Tuition, accommodation, food and travel during the course are all provided free of charge. Delegates must fund their own travel costs from home to Southampton University.
For more details, see the Ordnance Survey and Goldsmith's website, where you can download an application form.
This is certainly something which I would have applied for if I was teaching, and has the added bonus of being in the final week of term for most parts of the country, which means that it would be a reasonable time to take off school as a lot of schools would be running activity type days for part of that, so there would be less teaching time missed.
* (From the application form)
You must be a teacher employed at a secondary school in Great Britain teaching GCSE/A level standard qualifications in geography.
Mid-career teachers are expected to benefit most from this course, but there are no specific upper or lower age limits.
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