Tag Archives: Teaching

Learning about China through film

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but given today the new leaders of China have been announced it seemed more apt. When I last taught my course on China I was asked by a student if … Continue reading →

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Twitter for Geography Teachers and Students: GA Conference

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

Today I presented some ideas about the uses of Twitter for Geography teachers and students at the Geographical Association Annual Conference held this year at the University of Manchester. The slides from the presentation are shown below: The main point … Continue reading →

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Identity: From Europe to You

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

Back in March I wrote a post about some resources produced by the European Commission, a poster entitled ‘United in Diversity’, and a booklet with images for each country in Europe. The images show a map of Europe/each country with … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Books for a PGCE in Secondary Geography

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

While sorting things out over the weekend I came across some of the books that helped me through my PGCE all those years ago. This spurred me to think about which books had been the most helpful, and which ones … Continue reading →

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Move, Eat, Learn

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

I came across a post on the SLN Geography Forum which included a link to three short videos created by 3 young men who travelled for 44 days to 11 countries, with 18 flights, covering 38,000 miles. Using almost a … Continue reading →

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Geography: A History

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

For an upcoming course I’m teaching for G&T students on a variety of aspects of geography, I will providing an introduction to the history of geography, and how the discipline has evolved to become what it is today. The PowerPoint … Continue reading →

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A Brief History of China…or Chinese History in 45 minutes

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

I recently taught a week-long residential course for Gifted and Talented Students on the topic of China. The course covered a variety of aspects of Chinese, culture, economics, history, and geography. One of the first sessions provided a broad overview … Continue reading →

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Teaching Transnational Corporations – Starbucks

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

I recently had to introduce the topic of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) to a group of Year 9 students. I decided to use Starbucks as the main example (all the lesson introduces a wealth of other examples). Starbucks is the largest … Continue reading →

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Representing Europe: What represents your country?

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

I have recently been sent a number of resources from the European Commission about various aspects of the European Unions and the countries included within it. There were two which I found particularly interesting. They have produced a poster called … Continue reading →

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Extreme multi-tasking or short attention span?

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Generally, I think I have a pretty good attention span. I can work solidly on a piece of work, and stay focused for a good couple of hours, IF, I have the internet browser minimised (or even better not open … Continue reading →

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