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The author argues that schools should get their students acquainted with the founders of modern geography, Elisee Reclus, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Forster, Peter Kropotkin, and John Wesley Powell. Topics discussed include online petition set up by students calling for climate change to become a core part of the curriculum, accomplishments of von Humboldt, and contribution of Powell to the rights of Native Americans.

The article focuses on the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) prioritizing curriculum which can affect the education sector particularly, primary schools. It discusses the difference between episodic and semantic memory for putting excitement in the revised curriculum, and knowing the purpose of studying subjects like geography.

The article focuses on the importance of curriculum planning. It mentions that curriculum must be prepared by teachers to every pupil for the pursuit of the subject at the highest level, equipping each with the knowledge that they require in order to lead lives of choice and opportunity. It also mentions about geography curriculum for delivering rigorous learning.

The article presents news briefs related to education in Great Britain. A study of more than 100,000 sixth-formers found that girls showed more interest in studying geography, English and criminology. The British Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) will have its funding cut by 38 per cent by 2019-2020. Females accounted for just 42 per cent of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics A-level entries.

The article offers information on the issues related to education. It states that the book "The Day the Ground Shook," which helps the children to understand the impact of disasters such as earthquake in the communities was released by the disaster relief charity ShelterBox. It adds that courses on geography for new qualified teachers (NQTs) is being offered by Geographical Association while Make the Link, a project for pupil provides an online forum that tackles climate change.

The article focuses on the inclusion of geography in the six new areas of learning in primary education in England, following the recommendations from "Rose Review." Sue Horner, curriculum director at Qualifications and Development Agency, states that the curriculum will offer better understanding of the subject as it relates geography with history. It discusses how schools in England, including Halterworth School and Thornton Dale Church of England Primary School, adapt to the new curriculum.

The article discusses geography fieldwork in education in Great Britain. It was found that the amount of fieldwork completed by students is low because of the costs involved in field trips and the fear that something could go wrong and the teachers or school could face litigation. Such fieldwork is required by the national curriculum, A-levels and AS-levels. A report by the British Office for Standards in Education found education outside the classroom to be important.

The article discusses different ways of increasing students' interest in the subject of geography. It is suggested if geography can lose its label as the worst taught subject with images and videos. According to the Geographical Association, one way to do this is to show geography's relevance to students' lives. The association's work developing courses to help teachers encourage students to study geography issues which includes a course on the materials used in mobile phones are discussed.

Presents job advertisements for department heads and geography teachers in secondary education as of May 20, 2005 in Great Britain.

Presents the job advertisements for teaching positions in Geography for secondary education published in the May 6, 2005 issue of "The Times Educational Supplement" in Great Britain.

Presents job advertisements for secondary education teachers of geography in Great Britain as of March 2005.

Presents job advertisements for teaching position in Geography subject at secondary education in Great Britain.

Presents job advertisements for geography teachers in secondary education in England as of May 2004.

Presents a job advertisement for geography teaching positions in Great Britain as of March 2004.

Presents lesson ideas for a cross-cultural geography topic in Great Britain. Emphasis on the longest river in England; Accounts on the official source of Thames; Increase of the economic importance of rivers.

Presents job advertisements for Geography teachers of secondary education in England as of January 2004.

The article talks about Irina Gegele who teaches geography with a grand piano to students aged between 11 and 16 at Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, Russia. She teaches global topics including economic and social geography of the world and physical and human geography of the Moscow region. She also talks about the last three years in compulsory education wherein the students concentrate more on their musical career in a professional way.

The article describes an activity program which uses a video transmission from an alien ship, which offers students an unusual slant to the task of contrasting, comparing and researching the geography of different cities and towns.

The article discusses change in geography curriculum at key stages one, two and three, and mentions how teachers approaching this subject. Topics discussed include new curriculum offers challenges like old assessments and assignments, challenging topics, and place topics such as Russia and the Middle East this course work not covers regional geography approach of the 1960 and early 1970. It presents a list of changes in curriculum at each stages and course to be taught.

The article discusses ways to build up the missing foundation of geographical understanding in the schools of Great Britain. It suggests keeping morning sessions to show clips from children's news shows, setting world map as a desktop image on computer, and involving games using atlas into sessions.

The article discusses how the teaching of geography has been split into human and physical aspects and whether it will disappear as a subject in British schools. It mentions that the Geographical Association, a British subject association, has advised on the national curriculum for Northern Ireland, Wales and England and has maintained the subject's physical/human split. The article also presents the views of the association's chief executive Alan Kinder and broadcaster Iain Stewart.

The article looks at Barnaby Lenon, former headmaster of the Harrow School in Harrow, England and the chairman of the Independent Schools Council (ISC), an umbrella organization which represents more than 1,200 independent schools in Great Britain. Particular focus is given to his career as a teacher and leader in independent schools and to his goals for the ISC. These include advocating for improvements to the reliability of public exams. His interest in geography is also discussed. INSET: CV.

The article reports on proposed changes to the national curriculum for Great Britain beginning in 2014 and examines the possibility that its emphasis on subjects such as geography, foreign languages, and history may lead to a teacher shortage for secondary schools. Implications for teacher training programs are explored and comments from Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) head Brian Lightman are presented.

The article reports that the Geographical Association has produced a new series of books designed for primary teachers which contain eight geography lessons with downloadable resources such as lesson activity sheets.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues which include "Call for SEN schools to be handed to private provides" in the November 26, 2010 issue, "League tables for five years olds" in the December 3, 2010 issue, and "The Week" in the December 3, 2010 issue.

The article presents a lesson plan for the identification of climatic changes through information and communication technology (ICT).

The article focuses on the development of geography subject in the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in Great Britain. Topics mentioned include the methods for teaching geography, the change in the school curriculum for teaching geography, and the several tips and strategies for teaching geography which includes staying positive, active engagement with continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities, and promoting the relevance of geography.

In this article, the author discusses various trends in the education. He comments that students are being taught politically correct things only and still the traditional way of teaching the 3 Rs is being followed in most of the schools in England. He further predicts that soon the education system will undergo a change in which the study of geography and science will be merged with the contemporary issues of global warming and history will be viewed as social understanding.

The article features geography teacher David Jackson in Great Britain. According to the author, Jackson encouraged his students to join the local athletics club. He suggests that it would be beneficial for the children to get involved in sports in the early days. The author talks on his experience of being taught by Jackson.

The article presents a lesson plan for middle school education which teaches concepts about geography using food from other countries and information and communication technologies.

The article presents a lesson plan for 11 or 12-year-old students which teaches concepts about map scales using the Ordnance Survey Get-a-Map service in Great Britain.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience teaching geography to local primary students by starting with an open-ended question for engagement, building geographical vocabulary, and using Google to search for images.

The article offers suggestions for planning local geography lessons with special needs students. Particular focus is given to the importance of sensory experiences and activities involving dry leaves, electric fans, scarves, and recorded sound effects are presented. The author also suggests using sensory experiences to explore other seasons and different areas of the world, such as rainforests, glaciers, or large cities.

The article presents a lesson plan for secondary education which teaches students about landscapes using the Multimap website.

The article presents a lesson plan for teaching primary students in Great Britain about geography. The lesson plan asks students to gather news stories from around the world and keep track of the countries in which the news occurred. This information is used to create a proportional map on the web site worldmapper.org. The lesson helps teach students about the general size and location of countries as well as provides information about journalism.

The article presents a classroom activity for teaching geography to primary school students. The activity expands upon lessons developed by Great Britain's Qualification and Curriculum Authority in its' Unit 5 curricula and uses Barnaby Bear. It is reported that Barnaby Bear is an educational toy developed by the British Geographical Association for use in classrooms. As part of this activity students show Barnaby Bear around their school.

The article reports on the success of a "back-to-maps" approach to teaching geography at the Magdalen College School in Oxford, England. It is reported that seventy-five students at the school elected to take General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) geography following the implementation of maps-based teaching methods, compared to thirty students in the year before the program began. Details of "back-to-maps" teaching methods are offered.

The article reports on the methods of teaching geography at a secondary school in Essex, England. The authors explain that this key stage 3 lesson focuses on Brazil. They use photographs of contrasting landscapes found in Brazil to prompt discussion of the country's natural diversity and social conditions. The balance of the lesson involves map drawing and focuses on accuracy, self-assessment, and neatness and includes group discussion of map-drawing techniques.

The author describes her method of teaching about geography, global warming, and climate change through interdisciplinary middle-school lessons in Great Britain. She has pupils work in groups to develop various portions of a news program, set in the year 2050, such as weather forecasts, political reports, and environmental reports. She explains pupils' script writing, benefits of filming the pupils' production, and use of computers to add special effects.

The article presents a lesson suggestion for teaching geography to key stage 2 students, ages seven to 11, in Great Britain. The author describes the activity she uses with her students, which calls for students to survey their local area and create an original version of an Ordnance Survey Explorer Map. She provides suggestions for preparing students for the activity and for recording information outside. She includes curriculum objective and resource information for the lesson. INSET: Resources.

The article presents a suggested lesson for teaching geography to students ages 11 to 14 in Great Britain. The author describes an activity she uses to complete lessons on earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. She has students work in teams to build volcanoes based on her guidelines. She explains the activity's requirements and students' reactions when they are allowed to make their volcano erupt. She provides resource suggestions for teaching geography. INSET: Resources.

The article discusses methods of teaching history and geography to middle school students through drama. By engaging students in the lesson and creating historical roles for them to participate in, teachers can better facilitate learning by making it fun and encouraging students to self-motivate.

The article reviews the result of Ofsted school inspection reports for British primary schools. School performance overall fell. Children are not getting the support they need in the younger years as attention goes to older peers preparing for exams. Writing and science achievement fell, as did time devoted to coherent history and geography study. Introduction of foreign languages is going well. Primary schools are working to promote healthy lifestyles.

The article focuses on the subject of geography and its teaching at Ryton Comprehensive school in Tyne and Wear, England. Dot Kell, the head of geography department, says that it is a colorful subject. One of the teachers, James McGrah plays a cattle game with his 8-year old students. In this, students are required to take decision regarding the sale of their cattle. One of the students says that the teachers are very helpful and the coursework is really good because it is taught in an interesting manner.

The article offers information about the action plan of £2m by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority of Great Britain. The plan aims at bringing about major changes in the quality of geographical teaching and learning with the help of new tools. This is mainly because the subject of geography has been going through a bad phase since the last few years. The contents of the action plan include new topics like climate change and globalisation, fieldwork training for teachers and new primary and secondary quality marks.

The article focuses on the use of geographical information systems (GIS) technology in measuring and mapping buildings at the Bedford School in Bedford, England. The technology has the potential to revolutionize geography teaching. GSIS technology is used to make new connections between information and location. The technology gives students an opportunity to apply all their geography skills and helps them understand how geography is used in everyday life.

The article presents various school subjects, which was not taken seriously by the students in Great Britain. Secondary school were making more effort to cover local history but more of them still ignore it. In geography, the students failed to take the subject seriously in which the quality of teaching was poor compared with other subjects. In studying languages, language experts are forced to teach other subjects as pupils abandon French, German, and Spanish.

The article looks into the study and teaching of geography in the school classrooms in Great Britain. Educators are using pictures in class for children to respond in classroom discussions. Educators reel off lots of techniques that would show children the limitations of images in their own experience.

Presents job advertisements for geography teachers in secondary schools in Great Britain, featured in the September 30, 2005 issue of "The Times Educational Supplement."

Discusses Tile Hill Wood School geography teachers' visit to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean to improve geography lessons in Coventry, England. Teaching of geography in French language; Curriculum link between Tile Hill Wood School and the Collège de la Marine at Vincendo St. Joseph; Plans of Tile Hill to offer immersion classes; Efforts to develop tourism in the island through student modules.