23AUT75 Geography Literacy Series

Webinar 1: Strategies to Improve Geographical Writing – Junior Cycle

This webinar will cover practical strategies to improve our students' geographic writing abilities at Junior Cycle. The ideology behind this will be to improve geographic writing at JC level as this should provide a solid foundation & translate to Senior Cycle.

Webinar 2: Strategies to Improve Geographical Writing – Senior Cycle

Academic studies suggest that feedback has the potential to double the impact of learning.  

Webinar 3: ‘How to Read Like a Geographer’ - Strategies to Improve Reading in the Geography Classroom

The act of reading is extremely complex but because it is processed by our brains in a millisecond, we sometimes take it for granted as a simple act. Reading fluency is foundational for successful teaching across all subjects. However, ‘reading like a geographer’ poses significant problems for our students. When reading geographic informative text, we must consider what vocabulary and background knowledge a students will need to access the text. Additionally, students need to be able to apply an analytical perspective to the text. This means that they need to look at the subject from a range of viewpoints; political, environmental, social & economic. Furthermore, students will also need to be able to seek out trends and patterns with these viewpoints in mind.

This webinar will provide teachers with practical strategies to help students understand a wide range of geographic texts with technical vocabulary & high density of facts by guiding them to identify patterns & structures of the text.