Presenter:
Monica Thom The course is designed for teachers who are not specifically Geography-trained, yet are required to teach Years 7 and 8 Geography classes. Throughout the day, you will examine each of the four Focus Areas in a way which
reduces the overloaded content to manageable units of work. The emphasis will be on studentcentred
learning using an appropriate range of geographical skills. Participants will be helped with programming, teaching and assessing the four Focus Areas. The emphasis will be on integrating the geographical tools of maps, graphs and statistics, photographs and ICT into the teaching and learning activities from sources beyond available textbooks.
What to bring:Please bring pen and note paper as well as your Stage 4 Geography syllabus document. Course notes will be provided.
| Rating | Comment |
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  | Very useful resources and information |
| Great resources |
| Monica had excellent worldly knowledge and subject specific knowledge was very helpful and insightful. |
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| Excellent, relevant resources. |
| The course was very beneficial and I look forward to the next one. |
  | First session poor! Too much talking on what to do in class. Don't tell us, show us how! Mi/ Bloom is uni work, show us how we can use MI/Bloom for geography. Lots of good hand outs! Too much showing, not enough doing. |
| My confidence teaching year 7 has sky rocketed. |
| Good resources, maybe need a separate course for year 7 and 8. Too much to cover in one day. Maybe a longer question time too but overall very good. |
| Monica was brilliant. Great hand outs, great examples. Course was practical, very useful indeed. |
| Monica is a clearly knowledgeable, compassionate and dedicated presenter, catered for disparate group with humor and expertise. |
| Very useful and practical. |
| Clear explanations of everything covered. |
| Found it very useful. |
