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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1919 Tour Guide

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