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
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
Entry Requirements
Mandatory
Recommended
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.
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Course Codes
QTS with PGCE, full time or part time, 2B2X
QTS full time - P824
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