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Supporting Non-Specialists in the Geography Department

Dr. Preece

With the teacher recruitment offering worrying times for schools and ITE providers alike , it’s already quite common – and likely to become more important – that HoDs and Departments have a considered approach to supporting non-specialists with teaching in Geography. Geography has a lot of Tier 2/Tier 3 words.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

To do that, I took the primary sources straight out of the textbook and ran them through Claude AI with a simple prompt: “Keep the primary sourceness of these documents but make them so 8th graders can understand them.” The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

ED Surge

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. The foundation is so well established.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail. They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration. These methods helped students break down complex historical concepts into simple, creative outputs.

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A wonderful PhD opportunity

Living Geography

Via my At the Home of Geography blog. Doreen Massey (1944-2016) changed geography. Her theoretical work on space, place and power helped enliven and transform debates across the discipline and well beyond, bringing many into the conversation over the difference that geography makes.

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Responses coming in on the Curriculum and Assessment Review

Living Geography

The review spans key stages 1 to 4, and 16 to 19 education, and will look closely at the challenges to attainment for young people, and the barriers which many children face – in particular those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, or with special educational needs or disability (SEND). Do you agree? What should assessment look like?