I blogged a few weeks ago about the success of David Rogers: the Chair of the GA's Secondary Committee in the Jamie Oliver Dream Teachers competition on YouTube...
You can watch his £10 000 winning video below - it's now been seen over 13000 times !
Also listen to him from earlier today on BBC Radio SOLENT - via Audioboo....
David is off to Google London today for an awards ceremony so have a good day David....
Audience: Post-16 geography teachers
Time: Friday 24 June from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue: Online training room - take part from anywhere in the world
Cost: £125 (GA full, personal and concessionary members) / £175 (non-members)
Time: Friday 24 June from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue: Online training room - take part from anywhere in the world
Cost: £125 (GA full, personal and concessionary members) / £175 (non-members)
Course information
The first in our series of interactive online courses will help Post-16 teachers update their knowledge of health and flooding, two key topics in Post-16 geography.
Approximately one hour will be spent on each topic during which time you will learn about current thinking and discover recent examples to use as case studies with your students.
Health
- Links between geography and health
- Global patterns of health
- Health issues linked to infectious diseases, including updates on HIV-AIDS
- Health issues linked to affluence and human behaviour
Flooding
- Causes of recent floods
- Impacts of recent floods
- The implications of these for thinking about flood management
The course will include examples from titles in the GA's Top Spec Geography series -Flood Risk and Management and Health Issues in Geography.
Course leaders
Bob Digby: Junior Vice-President and Community Geographer for the Geographical Association, GCSE Principal Examiner, author, and education consultant
Dave Holmes: Geography teacher at Queen's School, Taunton, GCSE and GCE Principal Examiner, author, and education consultant