nqt 2.0 (online) support networks for new geography teachers alan parkinson

NQT 2.0(Online) support networks for

new geography teachersAlan Parkinson

NINTENDO DS GAME

“This game is very good but anyone looking to become a teacher and

thinking this may help is wrong, simply because you don’t learn very much and the lessons are very short....”

Comment on Amazon website

Also available Imagine Teacher:Fieldtrip

The past

Image by Flickr user Bu Yousef

“In Britain, teachers are for the most part too scattered and too busy to come together frequently for discussion. They require a medium through which they may readily

communicate with one another, exchange experiences and learn the progress that is

being made in method or in appliances in our own country and abroad.”

(Vol 1., No. 1, p. 1 of “The Geographical Teacher”)

James Herbertson, GA President

Link to professional development...

Dylan Wiliam

“In British schools, Geography has ever been a dull and uninteresting subject. It

has been a dreary recitation of names and statistics of no interest to the learner and of little use except, perhaps, in the sorting

department of the Post Office.”

(Vol 1., No. 1, p.4 of ‘The Geographical Teacher)

The present...

How do you currently keep in touch with former students who are now NQTs ?

Participation is not always a good thing: it can just create a cacophony.Collaboration is sustained and reliable only under conditions which allow for self organisation.

Charles Leadbeater

Facebook

E-mail / Text groups

Ninghttp://geographynqt.ning.com

Tagging

Slideshare• Can upload documents of any kind and these

can then be viewed or downloaded• Documents can be tagged• Groups can be created and notifications

supplied when new content has been added

140 presentations of mine at http://slideshare.net/geoblogs

“hubness”

“twitter ye not”...@The_GA

@GeoBlogs

By Lauren

Idea: Tony Cassidy Teacher: Liz Smith, Brighton

iNQT

“There’s an app

for that...”

aparkinson@geography.org.uk