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Course Overview

The Geography ITT programme seeks to develop your skills as a Geography teacher. These skills will include how to deliver lessons to ensure students understand how to analyse literature as well as analysing writer’s intent and shaping their written work for effect.

Geography teachers need to able to impart a wide range of topical knowledge in an engaging and creative way that enables students to analyse the world around them. Trainees need to be able to know their curriculum inside out, especially GCSE specifications and how best to prepare students for their examinations. Trainees need to be able to understand how to structure exam answers and essays and be able to share that with their students. Trainees need to be able to understand and deliver a Geography curriculum which examines a wide range of Geographical content, structure lessons in an appropriate and engaging manner, using subject specific language and identify and explain key command words. 

As a result, it is intended that Geography trainee teachers will be able to: 

  • Develop their subject knowledge to a depth and breadth that enables them to teach their subject at KS3-KS4 with confidence and competence. 
  • Understand the pedagogy of their subject and be both deliberate and judicious in their choice of methods and approaches. 
  • Be able of the curriculum requirements for the age range they teach and have awareness of how content is chosen to be broad, balanced and deliberately sequenced.  
  • Understand how learning happens in their subject and be able to use a range of approaches to ensure that knowledge is more likely to be retained.  
  • Learn about the statutory assessment arrangements for Geography and be able to guide and prepare students for both internal and external assessment.  
  • Anticipate and address common misconceptions within planning and lesson delivery.  
  • Develop students’ hinterland knowledge and intellectual curiosity.  
  • Use a wide range of subject terminology and be aware of strategies to help students use these terms for themselves.  
  • Provide learners with actionable, motivational and manageable subject specific feedback in order for them to make progress in their learning.  
  • Create classroom climates that are inclusive for all learners regardless of ability or background through an awareness of potential barriers to learning and how to overcome these.  
  • Learn how to activate hard thinking in their subject as a result of a deliberate approach to structuring, explaining, questioning, interacting and embedding knowledge.   

Useful Websites

Useful Websites

The Geographical Association and Royal Geographical Society with IBG are jointly billed as subject

The Staffordshire Learning Net

Met Office

Oxfam

Ordnance Survey

Google Earth

Geography Photos

Geograph

Global Eye

Teacher Produced sites:

There are a range of excellent teacher-produced sites which are leading the development of interesting resources.

http://www.geographypages.co.uk – Alan Parkinson (various links to his more recent work)

http://www.geointeractive.co.uk – David Rayner

http://www.juicygeography.co.uk – Noel Jenkins (some archive material)

http://www.radicalgeography.co.uk – Tony Cassidy

http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk – Noel Jenkins

http://www.georesources.co.uk – David Rayner

http://www.geography-site.co.uk – David Robinson

http://www.gatm.org.uk/

Entry Requirements

Mandatory
A degree in Geography or a related subject, at class 2:2 or above
Maths and English GCSE at grade 4/C or above
Recommended
Involvement with young people in some capacity
An awareness of issues in Geography Education

Reading List

ISBN Number (for printed material)

Author

Date

Title

Publisher

978-1843771659

Balderstone D

2006

Secondary Geography Handbook

GA

978-1785833397

Enser, M

2019

Making Every Geography Lesson Count

Crown House

978-0826452672

Butt, G

2002

Reflective teaching of Geography 11-18

Continuum

978-0415230773

Fisher, C and Binns, T

2000

Issues in Geography Teaching

Routledge

978-0761969822

Kent, A (ed)

2000

Reflective Practice in Geography teaching

Paul Chapman Publishing

978-0415437868

Lambert, D & Balderstone D

2009

Learning to teach Geography in the secondary school (2nd edition)

Routledge

978-0335234486

Lambert, D & Morgan J

2010

Teaching Geography 11-18, A Conceptual Approach

Open University Press

978-1899857999

Leat, D

2001

Thinking through Geography (2nd edition)

Chris Kington Publishing  

978-1899857203

Mitchell, D (ed)

2009

Living Geography: Exciting Futures for Teachers and Students

Chris Kington Publishing

978-1899857432

Nichols, A

2001

More Thinking through Geography

Chris Kington Publishing

978-1-84377-095-4

Roberts, M

2003

Learning Through Enquiry: Making sense of geography in the key stage 3 classroom

GA

978-1899857616

Taylor, L

2004

Re-presenting Geography

Chris Kington Publishing

Course Funding

if eligible, trainee teachers in 2025-2026 will receive a bursary of £26,000 to train in Geography.

To find out more about financing your teacher training, click here

Course Codes

QTS with PGCE, full time or part time, 2B2X

QTS full time - P824