They discuss the topic of geography teaching in schools and how to develop, implement and support a high quality geography curriculum. They also talk about how teachers can be supported to create a curriculum that works for their cohort first of all and ways that long term teachers can break out of the cycle of teaching the same topics the same way, year on year.
The deliberate decisions people make are important. What questions are we asking?
The best curriculums are designed so that there is a coherence to them.
Mark unpicks the example of hydrology in KS3, and explains why fieldwork is also critical to the subject.
He talks about the work he did when writing a book about generative learning, using the SOI system, and also the importance of CPD.
The later stage of the talk moves towards the Discover Geography series - this is an International series and there are some issues.
You need to make it very clear what the purpose of the learning is (the intent), the misconceptions that people bring to classrooms, and help explaining complex ideas with analogies.
This is well worth listening to... check out the archive of previous issues as well.
