The GA provides high quality reflective and enquiry-led professional development for teachers. These courses form a CPD programme for all teachers who like stimulating, relevant and effective teaching. All teachers are subject leaders in their own classroom and these courses encourage critical selection and use of the subject resources for curriculum-making. All courses contain a variety of materials and resources. You can 'adopt, adapt and innovate' these to suit your needs. For example, you may wish to pursue the TLA award, use this as part of work towards an MA or simply to refresh and invigorate your classroom practice.
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TLA Supported Courses
These courses are specifically designed to help you gain professional recognition from the Teacher Learning Academy (TLA) by engaging with new aspects of subject knowledge and pedagogical techniques. Watch out for more courses that will be arriving throughout 2010.
Themed CPD for KS1-5
A new series of CPD courses funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) designed to support geography teachers with their continuous professional development.
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Food Security
Phase: KS3-4
Ideas and resources for teaching about food security and the global food crisis in the classroom.
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Secondary Subject Leadership - Coming Soon
Phase: KS3
This course provokes thought and discussion about how geography is taught and managed at Key Stage 3.
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Migration - Coming Soon
Phase: KS3-4
As a topic migration has an obvious relevance to all our lives but it remains one of those 'difficult' topics to teach.
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Primary Subject Leadership
Phase: KS1-2
How can primary subject leaders and school management teams 'lead' the development of geography in the curriculum?
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Young Geographers go Local
Phase: KS1-2
This course is focused on helping children explore their own personal geographies in a local context.
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Young Geographers go Global - Coming Soon
Phase: KS1-2
Helping children to develop their visual literacy by encouraging them to 'read' images of children in other places.
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Young Geographers Go Green
Phase: KS1-2
What role does geography play in enabling the sustainable agenda in schools to be encountered, developed and enacted?
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Places People Want
Phase: KS3-4
There are clear indications that settlement as a topic has become too settled and is in need of a shake-up. This CPD unit looks at how we might seek a response based on learners' personal experience and provide a conceptual framework for evaluating place.
Valuing Places CPD Units
Phase: KS2-3
These CPD units share tasters of the 'big ideas' that the Valuing Places project explored. Many of these focus on images of China but can be applied to other resources. Each idea is accompanied by a curriculum review activity and a classroom idea.
With funding from the Action Plan for Geography, the Geographical Association has produced a series of online curriculum making units for primary and secondary geography teachers. Here is the full selection below.
New and becoming teachers: these courses provide activities to develop subject knowledge and teaching standards.
Non-specialist teachers of geography: these courses provide a better understanding of what geography is, how it can be taught in relevant and exciting ways and how it links with the wider curriculum.
Geography subject and Areas of Learning leaders: these courses provide material to help you tackle CPD needs in your school, lead staff meetings, meet whole school agendas and further develop your expertise.
Senior Managers: these courses provide material about whole school issues for staff development days.
Governors: these courses develop your understanding of geography and how it contributes to the wider school agenda.
