Living Geography

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

GA press release says: Despite growing diversity of the geography GCSE cohort, at A level and at university geography is one of the least diverse of all subjects. The subject, and its institutions, are not serving all geography teachers nor all young people who could benefit from studying geography. Change is needed.

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Geography Government Research Teaching 64

NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Dalton Savage, an Education Coordinator at NCHE, spoke with me about his experiences in the classroom and his current role at NCHE. Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. He told me about an educator in his grant program who quickly emerged as a leader. “On He taught U.S.

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Geography History Library Humanities 279

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

K-12 144

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 137

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Role of Subjects and Subject Associations in Climate Change and Sustainability Education in England report highlights the important roles of citizenship, geography and science in teaching about climate change and sustainability and the contributions that can be made by subjects across the curriculum.

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Geography Education Teaching Research 52

Living Geography

MARCH 27, 2025

Details: There has never been a better or more important time to embed geographical careers education into your curriculum. Studying geography provides students with knowledge and transferable skills that will reward them personally and advance them professionally.

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Geography Teaching Education 52

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In our response we signal the value of a geographical education for all young people, the strengths of the current provision, and areas in need of attention for the geography curriculum. Geography is a subject that develops young people’s curiosity and helps them to apply that curiosity and learning in real-world contexts.

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Geography Teaching Education Government 52

Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

There is a considered critique of a number of concepts and theories in education, as well as some of the traditional ways of 'doing things'. What role might geography teaching play? What stories do we tell about geography itself? What geographical stories do we tell about the world?

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Geography Teaching Social Science Professional Development 52

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Via the latest issue of 'Geography' journal. The University of Liverpool has shared a variety of Google Earth Engine tools for researchers (and educators). This includes options for coding using Google Earth Engine.

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Geography Research Education 52

Living Geography

JUNE 9, 2024

Information from GA website: Teaching Geography is the GA’s professional journal for secondary school geography teachers and is published three times per year. Board members are geography teachers, leaders and those involved in initial geography teacher education at a variety of stages of their career.

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Geography Teaching Education 52

Dr. Preece

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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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Geography Leadership Economics Teaching 66

Living Geography

DECEMBER 17, 2024

UNESCOs Greening Curriculum guidance states that high quality climate education should develop an action-oriented, holistic, scientifically accurate, justice-driven and lifelong learning approach to climate change. from science to geography).

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Geography Teaching Education 52

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first thing was to book for the Geography Teacher Educators' Conference 2025. The aim is to share best practice ideas and current research being done in geography education including masters level and other initiatives and project work, relevant to training geography teachers. This is taking place at St.

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Geography Research Education 52

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A cross-posting from my RGS blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. We’re thrilled to launch a brand-new set of education resources for 7–13-year-olds, exploring how we connect to the ocean! Physical geography, including climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, and the water cycle.

Geography 52

Geography Economics Humanities Research 52

Living Geography

MARCH 14, 2025

A GEReCo Open Seminar will be held online via TEAMS next Wednesday (the 19th of March) GEReCo is the Geography Education Research Collective. Details and sign up form can be found here.

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Geography Research Education 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. That’s a problem because the data don’t lie: Two-thirds of all jobs and 80 percent of all “good” jobs (paying a median wage of $65,000) demand a postsecondary credential, according to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. She closed, at 1 a.m.,

Education 143

Education High School Library Geography 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Today, Gentry is the CEO of Partners for Rural Impact.

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Education High School Government Economics 132

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It was organised by the Oxford Education Deanery and shared on their website. Description of the event: This is an important time to be a geography teacher. Education, wide and fast, is necessary if humans are going to turn the situation around in the coming decade, to enable human survival into the 22nd century.

Geography 52

Geography Teaching Humanities Education 52

TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

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Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Many of [my students], being rural, spend a lot of their free time outdoors,” she said.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 120

Geogramblings

APRIL 5, 2023

Each year since 2021, the Decolonising Geography group put together a pick of sessions at the Geographical Association Annual Conference, which have the potential to progress the geography teaching profession the most, with a healthy focus on decolonising education. Need a Decolonising Geography 101?

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Geography Teaching Professional Development Education 52

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about. How much longer will the status quo suffice?”

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Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 109

Geography Education

JULY 23, 2024

My presentation on spatial relationships in AP Human Geography is archived here with the slides available here on Google Drive or the PDF below. I’m very excited to be presenting in Las Vegas for the AP Annual Conference. APAC Spatial Relationships 2024 Download

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Archiving Geography Humanities 130

Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

” Map & Tell: Geography & Political Shifts Next, we tied Jacksons election to geographic and political changes through a Map & Tell activity. Students analyzed maps of voter participation in 1824 vs. 1828 to answer: Where did voter turnout increase the most?

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Government History Geography Leadership 122

Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

Enter the Annotated Mapa strategy that helps students apply history to geography the way they would annotate a text. Annotated Maps + Dice Challenge On Wednesday, students took an initial Quizizz on how the U.S. acquired each territory. The class average across all periods was 49%clearly, they needed more time with the content.

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Geography Social Studies Interactive Learning History 98

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

Geography 52

Geography Teaching Pedagogy Library 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, educators have been considering the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) on education. Different approaches to AI codes of conduct are emerging, based on geography, school size and administrators’ willingness to embrace new technology.

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K-12 Education Geography Lesson Plan 123

Education to the Core

JANUARY 26, 2023

Geography lessons let your students travel the world without ever having to leave the classroom. You can take […] The post 5 Activities that Make Geography Fun appeared first on Education to the Core. When you think about it… that’s a lot of really content-heavy stuff.

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Geography Social Studies Education 52

Education to the Core

JANUARY 26, 2023

Geography lessons let your students travel the world without ever having to leave the classroom. You can take […] The post 5 Activities that Make Geography Fun appeared first on Education to the Core. When you think about it… that’s a lot of really content-heavy stuff.

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Geography Social Studies Education 52

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Enhance your lessons with our FREE CPD for geography teachers! Developed by Discover the World in association with the Geographical Association.

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Geography Teaching Education 52

Geography Education

MAY 14, 2024

Not surprisingly, I’m especially interested in the AP Human Geography collection with 15 mapping activities that align with content and skills of the course. SOURCE: ESRI ESRI has produced GeoInquires for many diverse subjects , from American Literature to World History. Tags : mapping , geospatial , ESRI , APHG.

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Geography World History History Humanities 130

Geogramblings

APRIL 18, 2023

A piece of poetry performed at the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2023 TeachMeet titled ‘#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power of Geography Voice)’ The full TeachMeet recording with a range of teaching ideas and thoughts for the Geography teacher can be found on YouTube here.

Geography 52

Geography Humanities Cultures Human Rights 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly. Just about any student can decode the words “Berlin Wall,” but they need a knowledge of basic geography (where is Berlin?),

Teaching 145

Teaching Geography History Library 145

Geography Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Questions to Ponder: How has agriculture and urbanization modified your state’s geography? VIDEO#1: Limited geography, but a good 4 minute local news-type explanation. What are the positive impacts of these modifications? What are potential negative consequences of these modifications? Video #2: More in-depth (15 min.),

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Geography 130

Living Geography

MARCH 26, 2025

Then it was some reading and a meeting as part of my role as VP Education of the Royal Geographical Society. Just before 6pm I joined the Zoom room ahead of presenting at an RGS Teachmeet on Embedding careers in the geography curriculum. Where Can Geography Take You? I started work on a few related documents and thinking.

Geography 52

Geography Education 52

Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. Presenting this equitable view is foundational for peace education. Our geography cards create an equitable and balanced view of life around the world because each continent packet within a series contains one image for 10 clearly defined concepts/themes.

Geography 52

Geography Cultures Teaching Humanities 52

Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. Presenting this equitable view is foundational for peace education. Our geography cards create an equitable and balanced view of life around the world because each continent packet within a series contains one image for 10 clearly defined concepts/themes.

Geography 52

Geography Cultures Teaching Humanities 52