Please edit the table with suggestions for future meetings
| Suggestions | Member | Discussed |
| C Geog Status and G.A. Secondary Quality Mark. | Tom B | 6/5/09 Add any more thoughts to the discussion |
| Podcasting- time to revisit? | Tony C | |
| Mobile phones in Geography | Victoria | |
| Simon R | 6/5/09 and next meeting? | |
| Easily intergrating Citizenship into Geog, e.g. should we be promoting fair trade while saying that food miles are bad? | David R | |
| Achieving a balance between an innovative/radical KS3 curriculum and preparing pupils for what is still assessment by written answers and knowledge retention at KS4. | Sally | |
| Topicality- How to ensure informed geography in a time of media hype? | Tony | |
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14-19 Diplomas - anyone have geog students who are also following a diploma line of learning? or will have in Sept? I've lost interest in this now the tories have scapped the Humanities line, as predicted.
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Angus | |
| Ideas for further Google Docs collaborative pesentations. How to get more people to contribute. |
Noel |
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| How about an NQT special? | Noel | |
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'The more challenging and alien the knowledge, the more powerful the curriculum will be.' Chris Woodhead -Discuss Or, if we have to have one, what 'core knowledge' might we want to see in a new geography curriculum? Angus |
Tony | |
| Differentiation | Pauline | |
| Guest slot (in-house CPD) | Kenny | |
| Links swapshop (regular?) | Kenny | |
| Geography Book Club - how about a monthly book, and those who have read it can discuss the way they might use it in lessons / curriculum design e.g. 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy.... / Fred Pearce / Ken Robinson etc. | Alan | |
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A two year KS3 - What and how can be done with 1 hour a week? |
Paul H | |
| Revitalising IWB use - I can't be the only one who's lapsed into treating IWB as a glorified projector screen? | Victoria | |
| Iceland - happy to talk about the experience while you browse my holiday snaps :) | Alan | |