| CODE | MSG5001 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Planning and Pedagogy in Geography Education | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Mathematics and Science Education | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed as part of geography student teacher education but which sustains and stimulates throughout the career. It explores the relationship between planning and the quality of teaching and learning in the geography classroom. The unit offers guidance on lesson planning to achieve the set objectives through the development of skills needed for this. This is achieved by a consideration of what learning one wishes to take place and how lessons will facilitate this learning, but will go beyond simply structuring within the time limits available for lessons. An extensive overview of teaching strategies as specifically applicable to geography education will be provided but always drawing away from simplistic notions of these and advocating the use of a variety of styles. Consideration will also be given to the requirements of the curriculum, aspects of classroom management, how pupils learn in geography, which resources are needed and linking concepts with past and future lessons. Study-Unit Aims: - To highlight and explore the relationship between learning objectives, teaching strategies, learning activities and assessment in planning for teaching and learning in geography. - To introduce student teachers to various teaching strategies and styles. - To encourage the development of a personal response to the challenges of geography education within a fast-changing world. - To demonstrate that teaching geography is not simply a matter of efficiency or philosophy but is influenced by the context in which teachers work, by the pupils they work with and the resources available. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Appreciate that planning and the quality of teaching are related and determine quality in these. - Discuss and prepare lesson plans and lesson sequences based on theoretical knowledge. - Analyse the relevance of linking activities to teaching strategies in achieving intended learning outcomes. - Demonstrate an awareness of continuity, progression and differentiation in relation to planning for learning in geography. - Develop own philosophy of teaching based on different teaching strategies. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Write learning objectives and connect learning objectives with teaching strategies. - Structure effective lesson plans. - Construct lesson sequences. - Evaluate lessons. - Identify a range of teaching strategies to bring about appropriate pupil learning. - Implement ways how to create a disciplined but enjoyable learning environment. - Reflect on own and others’ practice in curriculum-making. - Make informed decisions on some of the principles that underpin the effective use of particular teaching skills and strategies in geography. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Biddulph M, Lambert D & Balderstone D (2015) Learning to teach geography in the secondary school. London, Routledge. - Balderstone D [Ed.] (2007) Secondary geography handbook. London, Geographical Association UK. Supplementary Reading: - Roberts M (2003) Learning through enqury. Making sense of geography in the key stage 3 classroom. London, Geographical Association UK. With readings from Teaching Geography, Geography - an international journal and other sources. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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