Mastering Primary Geography

✍ Scribed by Anthony Barlow; Sarah Whitehouse

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mastering Primary Geography introduces the primary geography curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make learning geography irresistible.
Topics covered include:
• Current developments in geography
• Geography as an irresistible activity
• Geography as a practical activity
• Skills to develop in geography
• Promoting curiosity
• Assessing children in geography
• Practical issues
This guide includes examples of children’s work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to show students and teachers what is considered to be best and most innovative practice, and how they can use that knowledge in their own teaching to the greatest effect. The book draws on the experience of two leading professionals in primary geography, Anthony Barlow and Sarah Whitehouse, to provide the essential guide to teaching geography for all trainee and qualified primary teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Foreword
How to Use This Book
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Primary Geography
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Formative experiences in your geography
Geography in the nations of the UK
Introducing mastery and geography
Geography today
Geography, mastery and learning theory
Our motivation: We love geography!
Mastery: So what’s the debate?
The mastery model
Defining mastery
This book’s rationale to mastery in geography
What makes geography a subject?
Bruner and a spiral curriculum
Conclusion: Mastery and primary geography – poles apart?
The case for mastery
Summary
Further reading
Recommended reading
Chapter 2: Current Developments in Geography
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Section 1: Geography and pedagogy
Views on primary pedagogy: Coherence?
Understanding pupils’ ‘everyday’ and ‘personal’ geographies
Everyday geography as lived experience
Teaching geography virtually?
Personal geographies
How does the current curriculum frame this?
Critics of personal and everyday geographies
A knowledge-rich curriculum
Geography as a dynamic subject
Section 2: Defining boundaries – So what is geography?
Geography: Some more history
Testing your understandingof geography concepts
Defining geography concepts
Concepts and symbolic value
Primary geography pedagogy: It starts with them?
Space and way-finding as a skill to develop in young children
Section 3: Human and physical geography
Geography: An integrated discipline?
Section 4: Other key concepts in primary geography
Locational knowledge in primary geography
PLACE in primary geography
Further definitions of place
Further ideas around place
SPACE in primary geography
SCALE in primary geography
NATURE and ENVIRONMENT in primary geography
Conclusion: Geography as a humanities subject?
Summary
Recommended reading
Recommended websites
Chapter 3: Geography as an Irresistible Activity
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Introduction: How do we make geography irresistible?
Teaching geography: It is hard!
SECTION 1: CREATIVITY
Capitalize on creativity: Developing pupils’ imaginations
Creativity and geography: Definitions
Part 1: A case study of creativity
Part 2: Creativity through maps and mapwork
Where does this fit into the curriculum?
Maps as creative documents
Uses of maps
Cognition and mapping
Children and their creative maps
The big picture: Using globes
Games and activities using globes
Creativity with maps and children’s books
Further books to inspire pupil journeys and maps
Going beyond Google: Creative ways with real maps
Developing spatial awareness
Final thoughts on creativity in mapping
Summary
Recommended reading
Recommended websites
Chapter 4: Geography as a Practical Activity
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Introduction
Using experts to teach outdoor learning through geography
What is outdoor learning?
Bruner and a spiral of experiences outdoors
Examining your attitude to the outdoors
Geography – a love of the world?
Current trends when considering outdoor learning
Forest Schools
What are the key features of Forest Schools?
Other recent movements promoting outdoor learning
SECTION 1: IDENTIFYING THE OUTDOORS
Part 1: Locating the outdoors
The value of the street
Road safety campaigns
Other ideas for street-level geography
Children’s experience in the outdoors: Do children choose the street?
Part 2: Evidence for teaching outdoors
Part 3: Other claims for the outdoors
Other health benefits
A right to roam
SECTION 2: Teaching the outdoors geographically
Teaching the outdoors locally
Using technology to support learning outdoors
Other ways to collect data: Data loggers
Conclusion
Summary
Recommended reading
Recommended websites
Chapter 5: Skills to Develop in Geography
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Enquiry: First reflect yourself
Is enquiry in the curriculum?
Enquiry, geography and the science curriculum
Enquiry and a constructivist approach to learning
An overarching set of questions for enquiry?
Models for planning enquiries
Two models for enquiry
Model 1: A geographical enquiryframework by Owens and North (2006)
Example enquiry using this image
Model 2: Adapted from the GeographicalAssociation website
Example of this framework in action
Final thoughts on models for enquiry
Enquiry through using and collecting data
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 6: Children’s Ideas – Promoting Curiosity
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Introduction
SECTION 1: Us, them and difference
Others, distance and globalization
SECTION 2: Teaching beyond our and pupils’ experience
How should we consider our ‘world’ understanding?
Children’s ideas of the world and a single story
How might an understanding of difference be taught?
SECTION 3: Resourcing to teach distant place and that which is beyond pupils’ experience
Using virtual or our own experiences of travel to teach
Resourcing human geography teaching (landmarks)
Resourcing physical geography teaching
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 7: Assessing Children in Geography
Chapter objectives
Introduction
SECTION 1: ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
Part 1: Beginning with the child and their personal development
Inclusion in geography
Attainment in geography
Part 2: Thinking about your pupils’ prior experiences
What do you know about the heritage of citizens of the UK?
Migrant children
Considering identity: Planning for pupils
Assessing children and cultural capital
So what might the cultural capital be in geography?
Considering values and geography
Ofsted inspection and values
SECTION 2: ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING
Best practice assessing in geography
Marking in geography
Frameworks for assessment
Ofsted and standards in geography
SECTION 3: Assessment of school quality: subject leadership
The role of subject leader
How might you assess quality of teaching?
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 8: Practical Issues
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Part 1: How did we get here?
Conclusion: Initiative overload
Part 2: Medium-term planning in geography – broad and balanced
What might planning look like?
The trusted voice
Reading this book is obviously a start!
Using textbooks or teacher books
Planning from scratch
Planning: Asking why
Where do I start with planning?
Curriculum maker or deliverer?
Part 3: Long-term planning – setting the agenda
Making the learning clear: Short-term planning
Connecting the learning: Planning for cross curricularity
Model 1: Hierarchical cross-curricularteaching and learning
Model 2: Multidisciplinary cross-curricular teaching and learning
Model 3: Interdisciplinary cross-curricular teaching and learning
Part 4: Becoming a subject leader of geography
Leading primary geography will involve
Other key responsibilities
Developing as a teacher
Developing as a subject leader
Where do I start as a subject leader?
Getting better
Supporting fieldwork
Where else can teachers go for good practice and support?
Supporting your school’s development
Part 5: Risk assessment
Summary
Recommended reading
Recommended websites
Bibliography
Index