food for thought for brighton
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Session for University of Brighton & Sussex Geography PGCETRANSCRIPT
Food for thought: Contemporary curriculum
making in geography
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Why aren’t these teachers making their own stuff ?
The result: a ‘pick & mix curriculum’
Noel Castree“There are only ever choices....
When choices are made and accepted by a sufficient number
of teachers, they tend to become 'common sense’”
The choices YOU make are all important !
Textbooks – the first lessons with Year 7“The Honeymoon Period”....
Introduction to geography...
First lessonsWhat would you do ?
Daughter started in Year 7 this year...
Born in 1999
What do you think of when you hear the word
“grandparent”
David in the TES...Photocopied article...
Subject vocabulary
Subject grammar
The curriculum is about the destination, the aims and goals, and is
therefore a matter of serious moral deliberation. A skills-based curriculum
leads us into believing we needn’t trouble with the knowledge question. But, what shall we teach and how do
we justify this? These are the important questions: surely the
starting point for teachers in schools.
Teachers as curriculum makers
Every teacher is a subject leader
Article in #pgcetips guide...
Food analogy...
Food analogy explored a littleIngredients Equipment ‘Cooking style’
“Last year, nearly one in four of the world’s six billion people lived in extreme poverty. A quarter of all human beings on
the planet had no electricity. Nearly a third did not have reliable access to safe drinking water, and even larger numbers
subsisted on wood and charcoal instead of modern fuels. Just under 800 million
adults were not able to read or write last year. And, close to nine million children
died before their fifth birthday.”
“Can we have a fun lesson ?”
What does that question ‘mean’ ?
#ukedchatThursdays – 8pm
Different discussion each week...
“It's never the technology thatentertains an audience, it's
what you do with it.”John Lasseter,
Disney Pixar Head of Animation
How much time to leave for cloud-watching ?
#tags for lesson starters...
#cheesefilms
#geographytributebands
Young People’s Geographies
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NINTENDO DS GAME
On a day-to-day basis, young people participate in their own ‘lived’ or ‘everyday’ geographies.Geography in school can draw from these experiences, and help young people understand them, connecting them to the wider world of people.
Food
Transport
Employment
5 things that...4 ways of...
3 problems with...2 solutions to...
1 BIG IDEA !Pedagogy
Media / Culture
Examples of curriculum-
making
YOUR CULTURAL OBJECTS ?
What if they had
a profile?Concept: Tony Cassidy – Examples: Liz Smith
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What would they be typing now?
What have they been doing on
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Two interactions with friends
What groups are they in?
What ads would be
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Snowball fight.....
• Write x ‘things’ on a piece of paper...• Screw the paper up into a ball...• Throw the ball at someone else..• Unfold the ball – write or amend x things• Screw it up and snowball fight again...
• Continue x times then open and read and share...
Making Geography Happen
Geography“Writing the earth...”
• Mark Jones in current issue of Teaching Geography – “Town as text...”
#cheese Films
• The Gouda, the Bad and the Ugly• The Baby-Bels of St. Trinians• The Manchego from U.N.C.L.E• The E-Dam Busters• Barbaramozzarella• East of Edam• Du Boursin Identity• Bridget Jones’ Dairylea
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Hungry for more ?
• http://www.geography.org.uk• Online CPD units on geographies of food• New activities for ‘a different view’...• Making Geography Happen project• New GIS unit coming soon...• http://www.youngpeoplesgeographies.co.uk• Functional Skills Geography Materials• “Mapping News”• Natural England – “Language of Landscapes”• Forthcoming Collins KS3 textbook series & associated materials...