The Expert Series

Creating the Expert Geography Teacher

Creating Expert Pedagogy, Building Confidence, Deepening Knowledge, Sequencing Learning

A live face to face webinar and a CPD box set of essential resources, materials and research linked to strengthening the expertise of teachers in the primary and early secondary phase who do not have first-hand expertise and qualifications in geography; or who do but would like a refresher.

Geography helps us to make sense of the world and our place within it. This course maps out essential curriculum standards that create for pupils opportunities to learn about the physical and human geography that defines how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and are changed over time. In this course we look at the vocabulary, concepts, themes and skills that will create a rich curriculum offer and that will support curriculum leaders and teachers of geography to enrich their planning. We look at how to build knowledge and geographical skills that will create seamless learning and high- quality pedagogy from the primary school into key stage 3 and beyond.

We look in detail at geography curriculum standards and other important research to unpick the key concepts, themes, processes and skills that geography leads, heads of department and teachers must use to create a sequential and substantive curriculum that delivers high quality pedagogy and learning in the geography classroom and outside through fieldwork and observation.

An expert in curriculum planning will host the live webinar We will look in detail at:-

Defining a sequence of learning in geography from early years, into the primary phases and into key stage 3
Building a vocabulary ladder for learning linking generic and conceptual language
Geography and its links to English and maths and other foundation subjects
A lens onto pedagogy and active learning leading to the acquisition of deep knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills competence
A focus on impact, learner outcomes and assessment

Who is this course for?

Geography leads in the primary phase
Teachers who teach geography in the primary school or in key stage 3
Curriculum leaders, heads of department and planners in both the primary and secondary phases