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Creating a pathway through the new Geography National Curriculum. 10 steps to move you forward !. Key to presentation Steps to be carried out by the Subject Leader. Steps to be carried out by the class teacher. Step 1 : Get to know the National Curriculum. What’s similar and different?.
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Creating a pathway through the new Geography National Curriculum. 10 steps to move you forward! Key to presentation Steps to be carried out by the Subject Leader. Steps to be carried out by the class teacher.
What’s similar and different? Step 1: Get to know the new Geography National Curriculum! Tool 1
Step 2: Conduct an audit. Tool 2
What did your audit show? What significant differences did you find between your current practice and new suggested practice in terms knowledge , skills and places? What are the resource implications?
An example of a process for developing a curriculum initiative and evaluating its impact Rationale for curriculum initiative: Follow the schools own action plan format. Tool 3
Step 4: Adopt a curriculum model. Decide on a curriculum model that will work well in your school.
Fitting the new curriculum together! Skills Places Geographical Themes: Human and Physical Step 4: Adopt a curriculum model Idea 1
Developing a simple Place Model KS1 • The school grounds and its surrounding area. (Year 1) • A small area in the UK. (Year 2) • A contrasting non-European Area. (Year 3) KS2 • A region in the UK. (Year 4) • A region in a European Country. (Year 5) • A region within North or South America (Year 6) The years specified above are only suggestions based on the age and scale. Idea 2
Step 5: Map out geographical content coverage and skills for progression.
Geographical skills are best taught in context to the learning. Tool 4
7 Key questions to develop locational knowledge of Places Helpful questions to help you design a medium term plan. Tool 7
It is up to individual schools to decide how to track geographical progress. Tools 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d.
Step 10: Review all planning in terms of National Curriculum entitlement.
Review content in terms of National Curriculum entitlement. 1.Does your Long-term plan and medium term plans accurately reflect the content of the new Geography National Curriculum in terms of: • Geographical skills and fieldwork? • Locational knowledge? • Place knowledge? • Human and physical geography? 2. Are there any resource implications? Now review your action plan!
Wandsworth School’s Geography Development Group • Leila Andrews (The Alton Primary School). • Stephen Ruddick (Fircroft Primary School). • Bridget Corrie (Heathmere Primary School). • Hannah Shanks (Trinity St. Mary’s School). • Hannah Warner (Falconbrook Primary School). • Katie Brown (Fircroft School). • Jen Quirk (Griffin Primary School). • James Stainfield (Trinity St. Mary’s Primary School). • Stephen Ellis (St. Joseph’s Primary School). • Chris Monk (SwaffieldPrimary School). • Andrew Allan (Earlsfield Primary School). • Michelle Rodgers (Albermarle Primary School). • Suzi Shaub (St. Anne’s Primary School). • Davina Salmon (Wandsworth LA).