GAConf21: Thoughts & ideas from the community

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SESSION DESCRiPTIONS
SESSION RECORDINGS
GENERAL THOUGHTS
THURSDAY & TEACHMEET
FRIDAY
SATURDAY

General thoughts, notes & Developments

THURSDAY 8th & TEACHMEET

Public lecture: 20 Years, 95 Miles, 185 Million Years: A Celebration of the Jurassic Coast – Dr Anjana Khatwa, Learning and Earth Science Specialist and TV presenter

Resources:

Attendee notes & comments:

AWARDS CEREMONY – Dr Susan Pike and ALan Parkinson

Attendee notes & comments:

GACONF21 TEACHMEET (Friday)

Resources:

  • Clarry Simpson’s (@clarry_s3) lag-free recording of her “Understanding unfamiliar geographical keywords” TeachMeet talk
  • Hina Robinson (@RobboGeog): “Integrating the rights of the child into your teaching and using student voice” TeachMeet presentation

Attendee notes & comments:

FRIDAY 9th

Q&A with broadcaster and author Simon Reeve (9-10am)

Attendee notes & comments:

Presidential lecture: Compassionate geographies – Dr Susan Pike (10:30-11:30am)

Attendee notes & comments:

9AM: There’s no planet B: caring for nature and communities – Jeremy Williams
9am: From tigers to tetra bags – the empowerment of women in India – Devika Krishnan
9am: Compassionate geographers – Dr Susan Pike, Jennifer Monk, Gemma Collins, Prof Simon Catling and Alan Parkinson
9AM: Deconstructing atlas maps – Dr Stephen Scoffham

9am: Evaluating the educational benefits of immersive imagery at KS4 – Amy Vigus and Dr Richard Waller
9am: Departmental leadership: building a department of compassionate teachers – Simran Jouhal

9AM: Updating pedagogy for Post 16 geography teaching – Laura-Jane Ward, Hafsa Garcia and Ellie Hopkins
9am: The Geography Quality Marks: building curriculum impact – Jon Cannell and Dr Becky Kitchen

9Am: Tackling the Whiteness of Geography – Charlotte Milner and Exploring aspirations: What do students and teachers report as being the strongest influences on student aspirations for higher education? – Sana Ali

10:30AM: Bringing children’s geographies into the classroom – Dr Lauren Hammond and Professor John McKendrick
10:30am: Hidden stories: exploring migration and community in your class – Debbie Watson

10:30am: Progression and assessment in key themes in geography – Elizabeth Rynne, Chair of AESIG, David Gardner, Sue Warn, Mike Simmons and David Preece

10:30AM: Top spec geography: key themes for A level geography – Bob Digby

10:30am: Using MS OneNote to enhance geography teaching remotely and in the classroom – Joanne Clarke and Supporting geography understanding with ICT and GIS – Heidi Quenby, Teacher of geography, The Maplesden Noakes School, Maidstone

12PM: Compassionate Fieldwork – what might that mean? – Bob Digby, David Holmes, Catherine Owen, Nick Lapthorn, and Jon Wolton

12pm: How to look inside a volcano – Prof Christopher Jackson

12Pm: Scholarship and indigenous voices: geographies of sustainable development – Grace Healy and Dr Jess Hope
12PM: Building a compassionate geographical community – Denise Freeman and Tom Highnett

12pm: Windows on the curriculum – Paula Owens and Anthony Barlow

12Pm: Getting the NEA right – David Rogers

12PM: Key concepts in the geography curriculum: mapping key stage progression in the understanding, use and assessment of geography’s big ideas – Simon Oakes
12pm: What does it mean to ‘decolonise the curriculum’? – Dr Alex Standish, Hafsa Garcia and Malica Scott

12Pm: Developing and delivering a knowledge-rich geography curriculum – Ryan Bate

12PM: To what extent are spaced practice methods valuable in GCSE geography teaching and learning? – Rachel Denison and Retrieval practice: How can students use it metacognitively to monitor and improve their learning in geography? – Jennifer Campbell

2PM: Racialised in/securities in geography education – Dr Patricia Noxolo
2pm: Overcoming the ‘Lisnagunogue effect’: using GIS to turn space into place – Alistair Hamill
2Pm: Field visiting attentively with the wisdom of Pooh Bear – Dr Sharon Witt and Dr Helen Clarke

2PM: The start of something wonderful… – Ryan Nock, Caitlin Finlay and Charlotte Foster

2pm: Using teaching atlases – Ben Ballin and Dr Paula Owens

2Pm: Getting our geography geek on – Rachel Hawke
2PM: Climate change as a safeguarding issue – Kit Rackley
2pm: Igniting compassion – teaching for social and environmental change – Laura Bytheway and Developing empathy skills through geography – Tessa Sittner

2Pm: Ethical global issues pedagogy for reflexive compassion: a resource – Dr Karen Pashby, Reader, Ruth Till and Jennifer MacGuire

3:30PM: Sub-Saharan Africa – circular economy solutions to drive a healthy economy and environment – Professor Margaret Bates
3:30pm: ‘The shops were only made for people who could walk’ – James Bonehill

3:30Pm: Resources for supporting quality primary geography ITE – Chris Barlow

3:30PM: The importance of compassion for people and places in geography fieldwork – Chloe Searl

3:30pm: Compassionate Geographies around the world – The strive for a carbon neutral society – Karen Corfield

3:30Pm: Compassionate feedback: fostering academic progress through care – Dr Cyrus Nayeri and Dr Elizabeth Rushton

3:30PM: The plate tectonic story – Duncan Hawley
3:30pm: The use of accountable talk to develop subject specific vocabulary in the geography classroom – Amy Cushing and Multimodality: the means to communicate compassionate geographies – Dr Alison Brown

5PM: The social organisation of climate breakdown: colonialism, imperialism and justice – Leon Sealey-Huggins

5pm: Ingenious India: emerging cities, changing places – Imogen Sahi, Kiran Sahi, and Susan Knight
5Pm: Why you should use what you have first – before looking further afield – Richard Allaway and Matthew Podbury

5PM: How can primary geography accelerate positive change for the Black Lives Matter agenda? – Patricia Kavanagh

5pm: Fieldwork in the new normal – Andy Owen
5Pm: Transport futures: e-mobility and the decarbonisation of travel – Dr Richard Waller

5PM: Core concerns – apples and the geography of justice – Simon Kenton-Lake and Jon-Paul Davies

5pm: Getting the best out of Twitter as a CPD tool – Simran Jouhal

SATURDAY 10th

Keynote lecture: Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values – Dr Sarah Mills (10:30-11:30am)

Attendee notes & comments:

Geography 11-14: Exploring our changing world – a new GA publication – John Hopkin, Gemma Pollard and Rob Bircher (5-6Pm)

Attendee notes & comments:

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9AM: Taking a compassionate approach to post-lockdown geography teaching and learning – Rob Chambers

9AM: Introducing Teach with GIS UK Hub – David Morgan
9Am: Using the Primary Geography journal to inspire your teaching – Jane Whittle and Adam Rose

9AM: Carbon and climate change: investigating national peatlands with global implications – Dan Romberg and Rachel Harvey

9AM: How can concepts such as ‘identity’ and ‘Britishness’ be taught through geography using curriculum artefacts? – Orlaith Roche
9Am: Supporting students through the transition from GCSE to A level – Andrew Barker, Richard Head, and Dr Richard Waller

9AM: Effective mentoring: an exploration into the Early Career Framework – Michael Simmons

9AM: The geography of geography: Who is (and isn’t) studying geography? – Steve Brace
9Am: Cool Places and Prisoners of Space?  Reading scholarship with KS5 students – Sarah Trolley and Geography reading in the classroom – Simran Jouhal

10:30AM: Soccernomics: a study of social inequalities and economic change – John Wilkinson
10:30AM: Finding the heart of the forest – Amy Moore and Helen Robinson

10:30Am: Effectively integrating real life examples in geography – Lois Martin

10:30AM: Let’s talk: The importance of collaboration, communication and networking in education – Dr Emma Rawlings Smith and Organising concepts in geography education: a didactic conceptual model – Lotta Dessen Jankell, Dr Johan Sandahl and David Örbring, Lund University

12PM: Flooding in England – past, present and future – John Curtin

12PM: De/colonising educational relations in geography classrooms – Dr Fran Martin and Professor Fatima Pribhai-Illich

12Pm: Privilege: How geography can help us understand the need for compassion – Kit Rackley

12PM: Compassionate everyday geographies – Julia Tanner and Jane Whittle

12PM: Virtual fieldwork – here, there and everywhere – Paul Hunt

12Pm: Teaching geography for the Anthropocene – Paul Turner and Dr Cyrus Nayeri

12PM: Developing anti-racist approaches to GCSE content – Danielle Cooper and Louise Holyoak
12PM: Teaching resources for glaciation, glaciers and climate change – Dr Bethan Davies

12Pm: How well do you know the area you teach in?  Ideas of place; getting to grips with them, challenging them and aiding students’ understanding of them – Lauren Wilcock and My life under lockdown in Europe – mapping the new normal – Joanne Meredith
  • Lauren Wilcock (@tch_geog): Session resources

2PM: Food, compassion and the future of life on Earth – Phil Lymbery

2PM: Tourism post Covid-19: An opportunity to ‘build back better’ or business as usual? – Sarah Rimmington

2Pm: Melted: understanding our place in a post-glacial world – Dr Chris Pyle

2PM: The peacebuilding potential of geography education in primary classrooms – Dr Benjamin Mallon

2PM: Compassionate urban geographies: fieldwork in ‘lived space’ – Dr Richard Bustin

2Pm: ECGeogNetwork: how not to reinvent the wheel and flourish as an NQT – Gemma Thompson

2PM: Progression in fieldwork through meaningful enquiry question generation – Dawn Thomas

2PM: VoicesProject: working with marginalised voices in schools – Chantal Mayo-Holloway, Rachel Robinson and Ahkera Williams
2Pm: An investigation into the construction of secondary geography teacher identity – Ruth Till and What is powerful geography at KS2, why is it important and what barriers currently exist to developing a powerful curriculum? – Josh Sutheran

3:30PM: Building an effective geography curriculum – findings from research and inspection practice – Iain Freeland
3:30PM: The limits to compassion – Professor Jon May

3:30PM: Where in the world is Covid-19? – Dr Anne Dolan and Joe Usher

3:30PM: The changing industrial geography of Guildford – Richard Seymour

3:30PM: Getting to grips with enquiry – David Rogers

3:30PM: Being Head of Geography: navigating the complexities of departmental leadership – Kate Stockings

3:30PM: Developing ‘thinking’ geographers – Tom Highnett and Compassionate geography – using stakeholders to explore key geographical issues – Claire Cassidy

5PM: From Cholera to COVID: Why Maps Have Never Been More Important – Prof James Cheshire

5PM: Every time I see a river – Brendan Conway

5PM: Reflecting on #GAeConf21 – Dr Becky Kitchen

5PM: Planning for progression with compassion in Primary geography – Sophie Brack and Jen Lomas

5PM: Coronavirus, connections and compassion: using the outdoors to promote positive wellbeing outcomes – Charlotte Foster

5PM: Rex Walford lecture: Lively geographies: paying attention to the world – Dr Sharon Witt

5PM: Challenging white GCSE geography: Global development – Dr Chris Winter
5PM: Adding mastery, breadth and depth to the curriculum through homework – Jennifer Monk

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Published by Kit Marie Rackley (they/she)

Kit Marie Rackley (they/she) is an award-winning ex high-school Geography teacher in the UK. Throughout that time and continuing today, Kit Marie provides teacher continuous professional development (CPD) and training, which previously included a role as Associate Tutor for the School of Education at the University of East Anglia. Kit Marie has worked as an education consultant and project manager with climate and energy scientists, including researchers based at NOAA Boulder, Colorado and as an educator and trainer at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, California, and is now freelance consultant with the UK’s Geographical Association and the National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers (NASBTT). They are a published educational author, including works with National Geographic Kids and Diverse Educators. Kit Marie is a strong and passionate advocate of youth voice and empowerment, decolonising the curriculum, and inclusive and intersectional education. Much of their work revolves around the climate crisis, focusing around framing it as a school safeguarding issue. Kit Marie runs an educational resource blog at Geogramblings.com, and is host and producer of the Coffee & Geography podcast.

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