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A teacher’s toolkit for Key Stage 3 GA Secondary Phase Committee University of Surrey 29 th March 2008

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A teacher’s toolkit for Key Stage 3

GA Secondary Phase Committee

University of Surrey

29th March 2008

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Expected outcomes

• Be familiar with key ‘tools’ or principles for planning a new Key Stage 3 curriculum

• Understand how to apply these to make good use of key concepts, processes, range and content and curriculum opportunities.

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Selecting and justifying content

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Planning using concepts

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Framing questions for enquiry

• Do we have equal rights to resources?

• British or European?• Where does China go

from here?• What difference can we

make to the climate?• Is the Olympics the best

way to regenerate East London?

• Why is the population of the UK changing?

• Should I buy a Valentine’s rose?

• How are our lives connected with Africa?

• What are your views on landscapes?

• How can geographers make a difference?

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Using geographical pedagogy

Make it personal

Ask the right questions

Address contentious issues

Detect bias in different media

Focus on real world place studies

Learn through talk

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What to teach?

• What places, themes and issues will you include your new KS3 curriculum?

• What makes something geographically ‘significant’?• The scale?• Geographical extent/number affected?• If it is new? Enduring? Threatened?• Its importance for the future? Who’s future?• Its typicality? Uniqueness? Fragility?• Significance to you? Your learners? The world?

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A teacher’s toolkit for KS3

Places

• Into Africa: how are our lives connected to Africa?

• Rise and rise of China: where does China go from here?

• British or European: who do you think you are?

Themes• Water works: do

we have equal rights to resources?

• Faster, higher, stronger: are the Olympics the best way to regenerate East London?

• A thorny issue: would you buy a Valentine’s rose?

• Look at it this way: what are your views on landscapes?

Issues• Change the

world: what difference can we make to climate?

• Moving stories: why is the UK’s population changing?

• Future floods: can geographers make a difference?

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Author workshops

A chance to explore how authors:

• have shaped their content

• used concepts and processes

• made their pedagogy explicit

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Some Toolkit titles explored

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Session plenary

• What are the outcomes from this session?

• What have we decided about key planning processes?

• What are our next steps?

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