The Association organises professional learning for geography teachers, designed to assist teachers to implement changes in Geography Syllabuses and to provide teachers with an opportunity to refresh their professional teaching by sharing ideas for classroom and fieldwork activities and hearing about current developments in geographical education.
Day 1: Geography 7-10
Day 1 is for Stage 5 Geography, and will consist of skills based workshops, strategic discussions and informative content across the 7-10.
Final program to come.
Day 2: Planning for Stage 6 – Year 12
Day 2 is for Stage 6 Geography. It is an opportunity to discuss the implementation of Year 11 and share your early experiences. This session will be followed by an examination of the Year 12 Focus areas. Each focus area will be explained, key ideas highlighted and a guest speaker will support one aspect of each topic. Idea and resource sharing will follow.
– The Focus areas covered will be Global Sustainability, Ecosystems and Biodiversity and Rural and Urban Places.
– The afternoon session will include a workshop for developing assessment and examination questions using stimulus material provided. The focus will be on unstructured extended response and short answer application of knowledge type questions, including questions that cover more than one content focus area.
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GTANSW & ACT is presenting a webinar analysing the 2023 HSC Geography Exam.
Topics that will be covered include
Presenters
Rex Cooke – Head of Faculty: Geography, Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview
Liesl Williamson – Senior Project Officer, Quality in Credentialling; Assessment Standards; NESA
Dr Jenny Hart – Senior Assessment Officer, Examining and Testing Branch; Assessment Standards; NESA
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Geographical tools and skills are an important part of teaching Geography.
This course, created by Dr. Paul Batten on behalf of the GTA NSW & ACT, introduces the maps and map skills that teachers should share with students within the NESA Geography Syllabus K–10.
The course is designed for flexible delivery. Participants can start, progress and finish at times convenient to them. Participants collaborate in a ‘pay it forward’ style with other teachers, engaging with previous contributions and creating their own posts, adding to the galleries of exemplars for future participants to review.
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Geographical concepts are a foundation for teaching Geography in NSW. This professional development course, created by Dr. Paul Batten on behalf of the GTA NSW& ACT, examines the seven key concepts from the Australian Curriculum Geography and NESA Geography Syllabus K–10.
Through completing this course you will be able to develop stronger learning activities through better appreciating the seven key concepts in the Geography K-10 syllabus, especially place, space and environment.
The course is designed for flexible delivery. Participants can start, progress and finish at times convenient to them. The focus of the course are text and image posts. Participants collaborate in a ‘pay it forward’ style with other teachers, engaging with previous contributions and creating their own posts, adding to the galleries of exemplars and case studies for future participants to review.
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Geographical concepts are a foundation for teaching Geography in NSW. This professional-development course overviews the seven key concepts from the National Curriculum, and gets participants to explore four of them in detail: interconnection, scale, sustainability and change.
Through completing this course you will be able to develop stronger learning activities through better appreciating the seven key concepts in the Geography K-10 syllabus, especially interconnection, scale, sustainability and change.
The course is designed for flexible delivery. Participants can start, progress and finish at times convenient to them. The focus of the course are text and image posts. Participants collaborate in a ‘pay it forward’ style with other teachers, engaging with previous contributions and creating their own posts, adding to the galleries of exemplars and case studies for future participants to review.
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Understanding the focus of the Place and Liveability unit is key for effectively teaching Stage 4 Geography in NSW. This professional development course examines strong approaches to teaching about Place and Liveability. The course explores the units from the syllabus.
Through completing this course you will better understand the focus of the Place and Liveability unit so as to more effectively teach Stage 4 Geography in NSW.
The course is designed for flexible delivery. Participants can start, progress and finish at times convenient to them. The focus of the course are text and image posts. Participants collaborate in a ‘pay it forward’ style with other teachers, engaging with previous contributions and creating their own posts, adding to the galleries of exemplars and case studies for future participants to review.
Understanding the focus of the Landscapes and Landforms unit is key for effectively teaching Stage 4 Geography in NSW. This professional development course examines strong approaches to teaching about Landscapes and Landforms.
Through completing this course you will better understand the focus of the Landscapes and Landforms unit so as to more effectively teach Stage 4 Geography in NSW.
The course is designed for flexible delivery. Participants can start, progress and finish at times convenient to them. The focus of the course are text and image posts. Participants collaborate in a ‘pay it forward’ style with other teachers, engaging with previous contributions and creating their own posts, adding to the galleries of exemplars and case studies for future participants to review.
Understanding the focus of the Place and Liveability unit is key for effectively teaching Stage 4 Geography in NSW. This professional development course examines strong approaches to teaching about Place and Liveability.
Through completing this course you will better understand the focus of the Place and Liveability unit so as to more effectively teach Stage 4 Geography in NSW.
The course is designed for flexible delivery. Participants can start, progress and finish at times convenient to them. The focus of the course are text and image posts. Participants collaborate in a ‘pay it forward’ style with other teachers, engaging with previous contributions and creating their own posts, adding to the galleries of exemplars and case studies for future participants to review.
Topographic maps are an important tool in teaching Geography in NSW. This professional development course examines the use of these maps for teaching in NESA Geography Syllabus K-10.
Through completing this course you will better understand topographic maps and related map skills that can be used in the K-12 Geography curriculum.
The course is designed for flexible delivery. Participants can start, progress and finish at times convenient to them. The focus of the course are text and image posts. Participants collaborate in a ‘pay it forward’ style with other teachers, engaging with previous contributions and creating their own posts, adding to the galleries of exemplars and case studies for future participants to review.
GEOGRAPHY 242: TEACHING LANDSCAPES & LANDFORMS EXTENSION
This professional development course, created by Katerina Stojanovski and Dr Paul Batten on behalf of GTA NSW & ACT, examines strong approaches to teaching about Place and Liveability. The course explores influences and perceptions, access to services and facilities, environmental quality, community and enhancing liveability.
Geography is as an ‘interdisciplinary discipline’; it spans the sciences, humanities and social sciences. However, the scope and relevance of geography is often compromised through its positioning in curriculum development and school organisation structures as a subject only of the humanities and social sciences.
Showcasing STEM in geography was an online symposium that brought together the academic and education communities over two days, with the purpose of exploring how STEM can be emphasised in geographical teaching, learning and assessment in alignment with the syllabus.
You can still pay for and get immediate access into the website for the symposium and read all the resources and then watch the videos of the sessions.
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