Now that Ofsted have directed their focus on curriculum, we have a renewed mandate to explore the intent of our curriculum. What is your vision for geography education? Does your curriculum match it? Do the outcomes match the intent? This workshop will explore your vision and how we as geographers can ensure our curriculum offers the best opportunities for our students. You will leave with some practical ideas to take back to your team.
This session will explore the sources of authority that geography teachers can draw on with regards to curriculum. It will illuminate the kinds of geography and geography education scholarship that can be used as mechanism for developing trainees’ reflective practice and for shaping teachers’ curricular thinking within a Trust-wide subject community.
As a result of a recent research project Ofsted have developed a definition of curriculum based on intent, implement and impact. This thinking has been incorporated into the new inspection framework launched in September 2019. This session will introduce a range of design tools to help you consider these three I’s, including a progression framework to support the design process that make progress and assessment integral.
Scale really matters, yet the National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2 mentions scale just once – to ‘explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time.’. As a ‘big idea’ in geography, how do we build pupils’ sense of scale? Through an interactive smartphone quiz, this workshop will surprise, challenge and amaze you in showing how much of our sense of scale is wrong, inaccurate or even impossible to gauge.
Key Stage 3 is where we encourage students’ passion and enthusiasm for geography, but has it become two or three years of preparation for GCSE? This session will explore how to best embed the skills and rigour needed for key stage 4 without losing the engagement and passion that should be at the heart of key stage 3.
