vital teachshare with paul cornish

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VITAL Teachshare

• 11th September 2012

• Guest: Paul Cornish

Madagascar and BeyondPaul CornishDirector of Humanities The Coopers’ Company and Coborn Schoolpch@cooperscoborn.co.uk@expeditionmad12

2011- 2012: One Busy Year!September 11 Awarded ‘Lead Department Status’ and £5,000 grant

October 11 Ten day tour of India (55 pupils)

October 11- June 2012 Led PTI Subject days for NQT, GTP and PGCE

November 11 Organised 3- day PTI Harrogate Geography Residential

February 12 A level fieldwork in Barcelona (50 pupils)

April 12 Multimedia Made Easy Toolkit published by the GA

April 2012 Google Earth session at the GA Conference

April 2012 Promoted to Director of Humanities

June 12 Speaking at the Humanities Conference, MOE, Singapore

July 12 Awarded the Ordnance Survey ‘Excellence in Geography

Teaching’ Award by the RGS

July- August 12 Madagascar Expedition (34 Pupils)

August 12 Completed Masters’ in Geography Education

August 2012 Joined GA ICT special interest group.

October 11- Present Geography co-ordinator for Havering teacher training partnership (GTP)

October 11- Present In charge of Geography CPD for the PTI

Using a mini video camera

Lesson 1: Bringing a climate graph to life

Lesson 2: A rainforest puppet show

Using a blog

Lesson 3: Peer assessment using a blog

Using Google Earth as a multimedia resource

Lesson 4: A virtual field trip to the Olympic Park

Lesson 5: Using Google Earth to investigate biomes

Using hand-held digital technology in fieldwork

Lesson 6: Emotional mapping of the school environment

Using Skype for video conferencing

Lesson 7: Investigating local food through video conferencing

Online resources to accompany the book http://www.geography.org.uk/shopdownload/GAShop_M

MEasyResources.pdf

www.madagascarexpedition2012.com

http://prezi.com/5pddajqyqrey/madagascar-expedition-2012/

Andranosoa, Central Highlands:

Project Village

Eastern Rainforest Ecolodge

150km Canoe Trip down the

Tsiribihina River, Western

Madagascar

First UK school to visit the Tsingy

de Bemeraha World Heritage Site,

North Western Madagascar

Dune Camp: Western Madagascar

Kirindy: Western Dry Forest

South Western Coral Islands

Avenue de Baobab, Western Madagascar

Masters in Geography Education

Dissertation:

“To what extent can „curriculum making‟

using core, content and procedural

knowledge‟ affect learning outcomes?”

A „curriculum of the future‟ needs to treat

knowledge as a distinct and non-reducible

element in the changing resources that

people need access to in order to make

sense of the world.

(Young, 2008; 90)

Conclusions

• Learning Outcomes

• Planning for Knowledge

• Assessing Knowledge

• The Knowledge Model

Madagascar and BeyondPaul CornishDirector of Humanities The Coopers’ Company and Coborn Schoolpch@cooperscoborn.co.uk@expeditionmad12