Coordinating Geography Across The Primary School (subject Leader's Handbooks)

THE PRIMARY SUBJECT MANAGER’S HANDBOOKS SERIES Coordinating geography across the primary school THE SUBJECT LEADER’S HANDBOOKS Series Editor: Mike Harrison, Centre for Primary Education, School of Education, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9DP Coordinating mathematics across the primary school Tony Brown Coordinating English at Key Stage 1 Mick Waters and Tony Martin Coordinating English at Key Stage 2 Mick Waters and Tony Martin Coordinating science across the primary school Lynn D.Newton and Douglas P.Newton Coordinating information and communications technology across the primary school Mike Harrison Coordinating art across the primary school Judith Piotrowski, Robert Clements and Ivy Roberts Coordinating design technology across the primary school Alan Cross Coordinating geography across the primary school John Halocha Coordinating history across the primary school Julie Davies and Jason Redmond Coordinating music across the primary school Sarah Hennessy Coordinating religious education across the primary school Derek Bastide Coordinating physical education across the primary school Corole Raymond Management skills for SEN coordinators Sylvia Phillips, Jennifer Goodwin and Rosita Heron Building a whole school assessment policy Mike Wintle and Mike Harrison The curriculum coordinator and the OFSTED inspection Phil Gadsby and Mike Harrison Coordinating the curriculum in the smaller primary school Mick Waters iii Coordinating geography across the primary school John Halocha UK The Falmer Press, 1 Gunpowder Square, London, EC4A 3DE USA The Falmer Press, Taylor & Francis Inc., 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007 © J.Halocha, 1998 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the publisher. First published in 1998 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-98331-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0 7507 0692 9 paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data are available on request Jacket design by Carla Turchini Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for their permission to reprint material in this book. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any copyright holder who is not here acknowledged and will undertake to rectify any errors or omissions in future editions of this book. Contents Part one Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part two Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Series editor’s preface ix Acknowledgments xi The role of the geography coordinator Contexts for effective coordination 2 Introduction 2 The broader context 3 Your school context 5 Developing your skills as geography coordinator 9 Becoming an effective geography coordinator 9 Using your skills to develop your role