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What does a ‘typical’ geography trainee journey look like, and what subject support should we look to provide across the different stages of this journey?

Learning to teach is a complex and messy process, and individual learning journeys for geography trainees are undoubtedly very different. However, under the new ITE inspection framework (Ofsted, 2020) there has increasingly been a call for ITE providers to explicitly articulate the intentions of their taught curriculum. Although we recognise that there is certainly no such thing as a ‘typical’ journey for a geography trainee this session will look to use the collective subject expertise of the GTE community to workshop and share ideas for the shape of this journey. The results of this workshop will feed into a small working group, who are looking to develop a resource to support ITE providers with staging and sequencing their curriculums to build subject expertise among trainee geographers.

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Curriculum as narrative

“Curriculum is content structured as narrative over time.” (Christine Counsell)

‘Typical’ journey and ‘stages’ of development

Messiness of ITT
Framing a curriculum story

CCF
Ofsted (Intent)
Mentors

Novice

Expert

Challenge

12:40 – 13:10

https://thedignityofthethingblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/senior-curriculum-leadership-1-the-indirect-manifestation-of-knowledge-a-curriculum-as-narrative/

(Counsell, 2018)

Share idea of looking to develop a curriculum as narrative

Rationale for developing a framework for a ‘typical’ journey- but am aware that learning is rarely linear and often very messy- however this could act as a way to help think about curriculum design, how to effectively imbed the CCF and justify the story of our curriculum to Ofsted (purpose/ pedagogical choices etc.) to frame the taught content and help mentors and school see how the curriculum builds towards the end product. Could be used to looking at ways to share with SBT mentors (to help them support trainees on this learning journey from novice to expert)

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Break out discussions: Padlet

Slide 3

27/01/2022

https://padlet.com/tbaker96/lkykis6fi3uj1zpt

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