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Work Smarter, Not Harder

A Principal's Reflections

Social media has completely disrupted that and, in the process, removed barriers such as time, geography, and money. The image below illustrates another secret that I have to come clean about, but one that also represents the ultimate power of connected learning. All of us are limited to the people we surround ourselves with in life.

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Your best Geography CPD? Professional Development in Geography – Chartered Geography (Teacher) with the RGS

Dr. Preece

As a teacher in the early phase of your career, a lot of your professional development is naturally focused on your Geography and subject knowledge. In my experience, as you develop further through your career, the Geography-specific training and focus reduces in time. What is it?

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The Geography Teaching Adventure

Living Geography

What role might geography teaching play? What stories do we tell about geography itself? The book revisits an older vision of geography that is much bigger than exams and memorising information: dreams of adventure and discovery. What geographical stories do we tell about the world?

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Prioritizing Professional Development, During and After the Pandemic (eSchool News Podcast)

Edthena

Vrain Valley Schools in Colorado became that much more important as professional development stayed a pandemic priority. Professional Development Should Stay a Pandemic Priority. As we talked before the recording, we want to focus a little bit on professional development. It’s definitely vague.

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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. Supporting development of vocabulary is critical, too.

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Decolonising Geography: A journey for #GAConf23

Geogramblings

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. DOWNLOAD THE LOG SHEET Check out the Decolonising Geography website !

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How to Achieve Powerful Digital Learning

Digital Promise

As the executive director of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) program, I had the opportunity to participate in professional development workshops, calls with coaches and IT personnel, and other virtual convenings supporting our community members from the 264 schools in our network.

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