Standards
6. Understanding geography teaching – pedagogical practices
6.1 Have current and extensive understanding of geographical education processes, including pedagogical content knowledge. They select, adapt and create field-specific and general teaching approaches and resources to support deep understanding of place, space and environments and they justify their choices about planning and teaching. Focus questions:
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(c) Backdrop: (d) Backdrop: Further links and resourcesDescription of pedagogical content knowledge:“Shulman identifies four key areas of knowledge that teachers develop as they progress from college graduates to accomplished professionals: knowledge of the key concepts and structure of a teaching subject (content knowledge); knowledge of relevant curriculum documents and supporting resources (curriculum knowledge); general pedagogical knowledge; and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)…PCK includes not only knowledge of methods for representing and organising subject content to make it comprehensible to students, together with the specific strategies and activities for promoting student understanding in the subject domain, but also an awareness of the preconceptions of key concepts that students of different ages and backgrounds construct prior to formal instruction.” Lane, R., (2009) Articulating the Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Accomplished Geography Teachers. Geographical Education 22: 40-41 See also: Shulman, L. S., (1986) Those who understand: knowledge growth in teaching. Educational Research 15(2): 4-14 |
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- 1. Knowing geography and geography curriculum
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 2. Fostering geographical inquiry and fieldwork
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 3. Developing geographical thinking and communication
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 4. Understanding students and their communities
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 5. Establishing a safe, supportive and intellectually challenging learning environment
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 6. Understanding geography teaching – pedagogical practices
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 7. Planning, assessing and reporting
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 8. Progressing professional growth and development
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 9. Learning and working collegially
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Accomplished geography teachers:
- 9.1 build a culture of professional improvement by learning from and with their fellow teachers as well as learning from research; supported by the professional and school community, they create the conditions for teachers to teach each other, support their peers, and deepen their knowledge about their students and their subject;
- 9.2 play an active role in their professional associations, promoting professional learning and talking publicly about their practice and involvement in facilitating learning for other teachers;
- 9.1 build a culture of professional improvement by learning from and with their fellow teachers as well as learning from research; supported by the professional and school community, they create the conditions for teachers to teach each other, support their peers, and deepen their knowledge about their students and their subject;
