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Geography Teacher Educators’ Conference
Brighton 27th – 29th January 2006
Mark Jones UWE, Bristol
Running a Subject Knowledge
Booster Course
Population
Hydrology and Fluvial
Tectonic processes
Coasts
Tourism
Settlements
Managing cities
Ecosystems & Soils
Weather & Climate
Economic
Sept. 05
Oct. 05
Jan. 06
Feb. 06
Mar. 06
Structure of sessions• Aim of session
• to provide PGCE Secondary geography trainees with an overview of the main themes and concepts taught at GCSE and A Level in relation to the session title.
• 9:30-11:00 part 1• 11:00-11:15 coffee break (provided)• 11:15-12:30 part 2• 12:30-1:15 lunch (provided)• 1:15-3:30 part 3
Learning and teaching strategies
• This is an intensive day & so a range of strategies should be used. Room has a visualiser, Laptop (www access), video, whiteboard.
• Strategies that can be employed include: lecture, past examination question - working through and model answers, practical activities, use of maps, data, statistics, visual images, ICT, thinking skills approaches.
• Activities set should encourage trainees to develop a clearer understanding of a particular element or difficult concept relating to the topic
Recreation & TourismConcepts and themes
NoneI have not covered/ not leant recently
Limited I have been taught basics in the past
GoodI could teach to KS3/GCSE standard
Excellent I could teach to AS/A2 standard
Record of Evidence
TMN
Definitions of leisure, recreation &Tourism √Classification of tourism activitiese.g. inbound, outbound, domestic √
Primary (e.g. climate, heritage) & Secondary resources (hotels) √
Growth of global tourism –factors e.g. affluence, mobility, budget airlines √
Changing patterns of UK tourism – growth and decline of seaside resorts √Self-Audit
Facts and Figures• 2004 – 763 million arrivals (+11% 2003)
Source: World Tourism Organisation
Destination Life Cycle Six stages of
destination life cycle:
•Exploration
•Involvement
•Development
•Consolidation
•Stagnation
•Rejuvenation/Decline
Source: Butler (1980) In Pearce 1995
Niche Tourism……..
• Literary• Pink• Golf• Music• Cycling• Spiritual• Pilgrimage• Nature• Heritage
• Ecotourism• Soap/Film• Adventure• Sports event• Culinary• Artistic• Extreme• Dark• Cultural
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The Uses of Heritage
• ECONOMIC - Heritage places are places of consumption and are arranged and managed to encourage consumption; such consumption can create places but is also place altering.
• CULTURAL - Heritage is simultaneously knowledge, a cultural product, a political resource and contested.
• Homogenisation through Heritagisation
Evaluation of Session Date
• Did the session match the pre-course self-audit you completed? Yes/No
• Were the range of delivery strategies varied and appropriate? Yes/No
- if No give suggestions for next session
• What other areas of this theme would you like to have been included?
• Do you now have a clear idea of your own needs and where you can get more information in relation to this aspect of geography? Yes/No
• Any other comments
What is a Booster….?
• an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective
Q2. Professional knowledge and understanding
• Teachers with QTS possess the knowledge and skills essential for them to be effective classroom teachers. These capacities underpin all the other standards.
Q2. Professional knowledge and understanding
Q2.1
• have a secure and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the subjects/subject areas they teach in relation to the prior learning, levels of attainment, future progression and transition of learners.
Our subject knowledge
GCSE
AS and A2
Y1
Y1
Y1
Y2
Y2
Y2
Y3
Y3
Y3
Y3
KS3
KS3
……..and in Year 3
• An Environmental History of the American West
• Estuarine Geoscience • Religion and Geography • The Holocene • Militarism: Space and Society• Geomedical Systems• Geography of Soap
Excellent Subject Knowledge
Limited Subject Knowledge?
50%
Where does my Subject knowledge
get me?
Geography
Geography with Sociology
Physical Geography Human Geography
Geography with Geology
Environmental Management
Human Communication Leisure Studies
Tourism & planning
Archaeology Education studies & humanities
Excellent Subject Knowledge
Limited Subject Knowledge?
50%
Where does my Subject knowledge
get me?
Geography
Education studies & humanities
Low
capacity ?
High on capacity ?
Win/Win?
??
Some thoughts on applicants with <50% geography in Degree
• A level breadth versus Degree specialism
• What can 50% geography look like?
• How are our individual views of the relative importance of subject knowledge and other teaching competences constructed/contested?
• Decreased numbers at HEIs – what of those in the bottom-right quadrant?
Excellent Subject Knowledge
Limited Subject Knowledge?
50%
Where does my Subject knowledge
get me?
Geography
Education studies & humanities
Low
capacity ?
High on capacity ?
Win/Win?
??
What is a Booster….?
• an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective
• the first stage of a multistage rocket
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