1. GA Dissemination Conference
Focus on Fieldwork
5th February 2008
David Holmes – External Geography Advisor
to the Field Studies Council

2. GCSE Geography Coursework
Tensions
Coursework = fieldwork
Formulaic - inspired
Reliability – Validity – Manageability
Plagiarism
Level of support by teachers / parents

3. GIS and NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Shift Happens?
GIS and NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Qualitative
Quantitative
Primary
Secondary
RESEARCH

4. New approaches

5. What OFSTED think
“Well planned fieldwork in geography adds clear value to learning in the subject as well as providing a positive contribution to the wider curriculum.”
“Follow up from fieldwork also provides very good support for extended writing, numeracy linked to the analysis of data, sketching, map work, formulating hypotheses and thinking skills.”
“Enquiry-based fieldwork sharpens and deepens learners’ understanding of geography and the progressive development of geographical skills”

6. Adding value and “closing the loop”
Secondary Geography Handbook , GA 2006

7. “Over to you” – student based learning
QCA – 2020 Vision

8. Delivering Progression e.g. 1 Rivers

9. Progression – example 2 – Ecological footprint Flatford Mill Field Centre
Secondary Geography Handbook , GA 2006

10. Role of ICT in Fieldwork
“geovisualisation”

11. GIS and fieldwork

12. Increasing convergence of technology

13. Controlled Assessment – what might happen?

14. Managing Controlled Assessment

15. The “Task Brief”