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A crash course on how to teach Years 7-10 geography (2024 edition)
July 23 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
$175.00This workshop is aimed at graduate teachers, experienced teachers new to the subject area or humanities teachers who haven’t taught geography before. It will show teachers a comprehensive range of strategies to teach geography in order to meet the requirements of The Australian Curriculum and state based curriculums from around Australia. In particular, it will demonstrate:
- Where to source engaging case studies, examples and data to demonstrate geographic concepts
- How to teach geography skills, such as data interpretation, collection and presentation, map analysis and creation, report writing, annotation
- Literacy skills for the geography classroom, including processes to scaffold and differentiate tasks
- How to create geography assessment tasks
- Effective geography lesson planning
- Effective ICT tools to use in the history and geography classroom