In the month of December Oxford Education gave away 24 free resources. This was one a day as an advent calendar with gifts under the Kerboodle Tree. I have collated the tweets here primarily for
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Interesting Geography(ish) Images
Want to Work for Ernest Shackleton? (from twitter - various) Anti-Gentrification Image (Berlin) World Divided into Regions of 100 million peopleWorld Divided into regions of 1 Billion People
Continue ReadingSecondary Starters and Plenaries – Geography
I pre-ordered the above book when it first appeared and received my copy though the post on Saturday. It is a mix of more traditional ideas, old ideas with a new twist and totally new
Continue ReadingGood Teaching and Learning in Geography
The public face of Ofsted, Sir. Micheal Wilshaw; has been widely quoted in the press, and not always speaking positively about the teaching profession. For example BBC Article and another BBC Article. The workshop led by a HMI was totally
Continue ReadingBlackboard Drawing for Geography
Picked this book up in a second hand bookshop this week. Not likely to feature on required reading for a Geography PGCE course today but some interesting illustrations. Blackboard Geography View more documents from Graeme Eyre
Continue ReadingCombined Geography / History GCSE
I have just read the folloiwng story in the Times Educational Supplement: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6075461 I have to agree with Dr. Gardner and the Royal Geographical Society that this would be a bad move for the subject.
Continue ReadingOfsted Report: Geography Learning to Make a World of Difference
In February Ofsted published a report on the state of Geography in British schools. I read it when it first came out but I have not had time to blog about it. My comments are
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