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So welcome back to primary pedagogy to week four.

And we're thinking about geography this week and here in

part two, we're going to begin to think what effective

teaching in geography might look like.

So here on the current slide we've got some characteristics

thing from cackling and Willie 2009 And this is where

they state six characteristics of effective teaching.

Number one that geography teaching is purposeful.

Number two, that geographical studies are problem orientated.

No three, that children's geographical learning is structured through an

inquiry based approach and sea links there to Piaggio, for

example, who spoke about Discovery learning.

No four, geographical studies are undertaken cooperatively.

No five.

That geographical inquiries involved active engagement with the world And

number six that Children are stimulated by engagement with good

quality resources.

So when you're making a geography lesson plan, these are

some good characteristics to bear in mind.

But how could we use his ideas in our assignment?

Well, if we take number six from that list on

the previous slide, which talks about engagement with good quality

resources, we can think what might these good quality resources

look like.

And here on the slide, I present a list for

you of what might be engaging and good quality for

geography lessons.

You might think about the outdoor environment actually taking the

Children out into their locality safely.

Obviously with a completed risk assessment, you might think about

the use of photographs of maps of leaflets.

You can often pick up a lot of free leaflets

from your local library or if you have a tourist

information of this or if you have any hotels nearby.

This sometimes have a leaflet stand in the lobby where

you can get lots of free leaflets to take into

class from postcards from rocks that might be found in

the area from newspapers, from different areas.

And obviously from looking at websites they're thinking then how

could these resources helps stimulate Children's thinking.

So here on the left I've taken those six effective

geography teaching characteristics and over laid on the right.

Some teaching for creativity characteristics.

And I wonder as you look up here at this

slide, can you see any crossover between the two?

Can you see any similar words or terms used?

Both on the left hand list and on the right

hand list.

So perhaps you've realized that being purposeful was on the

left and also pursuing purpose according to disable 2015 was

there on the right for how we teach for creativity.

You talk about problem orientated teaching and then you might

see on the right the chance for curiosity and questioning.

So hopefully you can see that geography if done well

and effectively can lend itself quite openly to creative teaching.

If we look on this next slide and these are

taken from Scott from 2016, we can see some creative

pedagogy and some creative ideas for geography And as mentioned

in part one of the video scuff ins link is

there on the week four canvas page for you as

well. So I'm just going to read through this list

of things that Scotland 2016 deems as being important for

using when teaching geography.

So firstly we need to respect the integrity of the

Children and give them a meaningful voice in structuring their

learning according to their needs.

Secondly, we need to engage Children with issues and questions

which they themselves think are important and worthwhile.

And I think when we're teaching geography, this bullet point

in particular lends itself really well to Children's learning because

they all live on the same planet and they're all

living um in the same country in the same part

of the world and they have issues and questions around

where they live, where they may have lived about their

locality, about the world around us.

And we need to make sure that we're engaging Children

with these questions and by thinking what Children think are

important and worthwhile, we can really tap into their interests

and make it relative for them and make it relate

to their life.

So you might want to think how in a geography

lesson, you could even start just what questions do you

want to know about our local area?

What questions do you want to know about our planet

where we live?

And especially as you move up into key stage two,

you're teaching about the wider world, what questions do they

want to know third day on this list?

We can see we need to acknowledge that learning involves

spiritual and emotional as well as cognitive dimensions.

We need to recognize that knowledge is constantly changing and

needs to be continually reconstructed.

Need to address controversial issues and problems as part of

a flexible contemporary curriculum.

We need to approach learning in the spirit of grounded

optimism and enjoyment, even if you remember that geography was

not one of your favorite subjects at school, We know

that being a teacher is all about that optimism and

enjoyment, isn't it?

And promoting that in our pupils, we need to provide

Children with the space to develop their ideas free from

the pressures of assessments and targets and geography, of course

doesn't have the standardized test to be done for it.

So it's quite nice to have a subject.

Um, there isn't one of those core subjects and you

can really just enjoy the chance to develop ideas, not

worry about what school they're going to get at the

end of it.

Of course, you might still want to be assessing the

Children, checking it, they're progressing with their knowledge, but you

have a chance to do that in a more informal

and less pressurized way.

You need to help Children build their identity and see

meaning in their lives as they find out about themselves

and their surroundings.

We need to build Children's capacity to anticipate and respond

to future challenges both locally and globally and finally, this

last bullet point says, we need to place learning in

the context of universal values in which Children come to

care about the world and its future.

And this is especially keen out as we find at

this point where we have issues with climate change, global

pandemics and we need Children to think about caring for

our world, sustaining our society and I think this is

a really important one by making Children care about their

world. We can hopefully have generations that to come or

have more sustainable and eco friendly habits and behaviors.

So on to our final slide now, Pale in 2008

says geography is a fusion of the power of the

imagination and the hard truths of science.

It is about sunsets and eclipses, mountains, dream lines, dancing,

dervishes, painted churches.

What could be more important than exploring the living breathing

essence of the world we live in and learning more

about the past, present and future because essentially if our

planet wasn't here, we wouldn't be here.

So it's really quite a big a big thing when

we really consider geography and what that means.

Learning about the human side, learning about the physical side

and there's really an opportunity here for you as a

future teacher to teach us creatively and ignite that curiosity

and passion about our world around us.

So that brings us to the final slide, which is

my reference list, which I'll pop up for you.

So just remind at this point, please make sure that

you have a look at all of the post session

tasks and the pre session task.

So you know what's expected of you for this week.

Um If you're going to be joining online and make

sure that you've got the team's link ready.

Um and if you're going to be on campus with

me in the sessions then make sure that you have

downloaded the slides which will be on a week for

canvas page.

And I'll very much look forward to seeing you in

the sessions where we can talk more about how we

can teach geography creatively.

And I'm really excited to hear about maybe what you've

seen in schools and what your ideas have been around

this content from our to lecture videos today.

So as I say, make sure you've looked at those

pre session tasks.

Please try and do the readings as much as you

can, make some notes.

Bring those along to the session and I'll see you

soon.

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