Lead Practitioner Event Wednesday 6 February 2008

Plan for 6 February 2008Geography for the 21^st Century Please bring with you programmes of study, examples of schemes of work and anything you thing has gone really well and you are willing to share with everyone.  Everyone will get a memory pen/usb stick so you can take things away with you.    

9.30 – 10.00	Arrival Register and coffee
10.00 – 12.00	Review of changes to NC and what it will mean for us in our departments.  Sharing current programmes of study and any changes we have already thought about.  Then map our current plans to the new orders.  Areas of current weakness – ICT provision, GIS.  Discuss strategies for tackling this.Look at the idea of geographical concepts and how this could shape our curriculum.
12.00- 1.00	Lunch
1.00 – 2.00	Jonathan Harris – Ideas for using GIS – Aegis, Google Earth, etc
2.00 – 3.00	How can we make it enjoyable – Exemplars form each school on topics that work well / Planning time choosing a topic and planning either individually or in small groups depending on what we want to do.

 Various people have requested issues that they want to talk about so I am hoping there will be plenty of time to discuss other issues as well as KS3.  A Level changes are also a concern so hopefully we could have short discussion on that as well.   I have Jonathan Harris coming to discuss GIS. He previously worked with us at Simon Balle and has great ideas on the use of GIS.  I hope this programme suits what everyone wants to get out of the day.  There are 12 of us this time so it should allow for much more discussion.  Anything else anyone wants to do just let me know.   Lastly I have set up a blog to post things that are relevant so if you want to make a comment or want me to add anything let me know. Thanks JoIf you have found your way to this blog and want to join us please get in touch baynhamj@simonballe.herts.sch.uk