Geographical Association
The GA is the membership organisation for geography teachers and ITE tutors in England and Wales. In addition to staff based in Sheffield, Angus Willson is one of a number of teacher consultants working in a variety of different roles.
With the RGS-IBG, the GA coordinated an Action Plan for Geography (APG) funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
The APG website includes an online CPD unit prepared by Angus Willson based on the sustainable communities project called Places People Want. See
www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/online-cpd/course/places-people-want/ [opens in a new window]
New Secondary Curriculum
The DCSF funded CfBT Education Trust, QCA, and the Geographical Association to provide support and guidance on the new secondary curriculum. Angus Willson had a role as regional subject adviser (London) and it included a round of regional conferences and web-resources (now archived). The second phase offered support to existing local teacher networks. A third phase involved a further series of regional conferences on key stage 3 curriculum-making run with a mix of other subject associations.
Places people want
With funding from the Academy for Sustainable Communities (now the Skills and Knowledge team of the Housing and Communities Agency), Angus Willson was leader of a GA Living Geography project with teachers looking at aspects of settlement.
Diploma Support Programme
On behalf of the GA, Angus Willson has written three CPD units to support subject specialist teachers involved in the new Diploma courses. They were intended for the Diploma Support Programme website www.diploma-support.org [opens in a new window]. The fourth-tranche of diplomas including ‘Humanities and Social Sciences’ has now been scrapped.
Weblinks [open in a new window]:
Geographical Association
Geography Teaching Today
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