Description
This half-day online course explains how pupils make meaningful progress in geography.
For all primary school teachers, this training builds on the big messages in the DPSI geography subject leadership course. It includes new information for primary subject leaders and teachers.
The course includes ideas, examples, resources and routines to use in school. It will help attendees to understand, explain and exemplify expectations and progress in geography.
Informed by the HMI research review, subject report and current curriculum thinking, the course covers how to:
· plan meaningful learning in geography
· secure key concepts and knowledge
· identify and emphasise crucial content that helps children to get better at geography
· make sure children know more, remember more and can do more in geography.
· provides powerful examples for the DPSI subject leader PowerPoint
Attendees will come away with lots of crucial information about effective curriculum design, classroom practice and progress in geography.
Feedback from recent geography training events:
''Focusing on "less is more" is far more beneficial, reminding us to focus on a whole school approach to build and reinforce knowledge'
'Very informative, explained clearly what I need to do’
'Extremely insightful. Packed with knowledge and ideas for next steps'
'Very enjoyable and informative'
‘Fantastic. It has given me lots of ideas of what I want to bring to my school. Thank you’
'As a new geography subject lead it gave me a wealth of knowledge to consider moving forward with our geography curriculum'
‘Clear and concise, sensible advice’
‘...crystal clear what it is that schools need to ensure they are doing in order for our children to retain and recall information’
‘Very interesting and gave me lots to think about. Good to see what the latest Ofsted subject report findings are’
'Fabulously informative and interesting. Thank you'