AGTA News 2012

GeogSpace

The GeogSpace project team has been hard at work throughout the second half of 2012 writing resource units for this project which is being undertaken with Education Services Australia (ESA).

AITSL llustrations of practice

AGTA has completed three Illustrations of practice to be published by Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). At present one of these titled Sustainable cities has been added to the AITSL website. It is expected that the two dynamic illustrations will follow shortly.

Australian Curriculum: Geography

The draft geography F-12 Australian Curriculum: Geography went live on-line for consultation in October 2011 and is available for feedback until 28 February 2012. If you want to have a look at the draft scope and sequence for geography just go to http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ and log-in. The draft includes the Rationale, Aims, Concept definitions, General Capabilities and Cross Curriculum priorities for geography, F-12 content descriptions, elaborations, skills and inquiry sequences and achievement standards.

Well done to all involved – quite an achievement to finally have a draft curriculum public and ready for feedback.  ACARA looks forward to being overwhelmed in commentary from geography teachers around Australia. Don’t hesitate to make your points heard.

True Blue Geography

‘True Blue Geography’, is an Op-Ed article from Bill Pritchard and Nick Hutchinson

Geography teaching positions

Looking for a Geography teaching position? Register your profile at this website and schools looking for a teacher with your qualifications and/or experience may contact you. Alternatively, you can search the online databases for positions currently available.

Sprol

Sprol is a blog dedicated to pulling sweet images off of GoogleEarth, and using the images to motivate interesting (and often very public-health-relevant) stories about the environment. In their own words, “sprol shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society

Spatial education resources

A collection of free GIS classroom activity templates for use with ArcGIS or other GIS software can be accessed here.