2013 Conference Programme


39th Annual Conference

Thurles, Co. Tipperary

 

‘Geography: Past, Present and Future’

 

Friday 18th October 2013

The Anner Hotel, Thurles

 

7.30pm                                  Registration from 7.30pm

 

                                      Opening of Conference at 8.00pm 

 

                                      Geography Awareness Week November

 

                                      Keynote Speaker             

                                      Prof. Gerry Kearns

                                      An Altered Audience: The Geography of School                

                                      Demographics

 

 

                             

Saturday 19th October 2013

LIT Thurles

9.00am                          Registration 

 

9.30am - 10.30am        A Short Course on Physical Geography

                                      Betty Higgs

 

10.30                              Tea & Coffee

 

10.45 - 11.45 pm           Junior Cycle Field Work & Skills

                                      Charles Hayes

                                     

                                                             

11.45 - 12.15                 AGTI AGM

                                     

 

 

  ----------12.15 - 1.15pm              Lunch ----------

 

 

 

 1.15pm - 2.15pm         TBA

2.30pm - 3.30pm         TBA

                                    

 

                                    

3.30pm - 4.30pm          Twin Session 1

 

                                     Practical Approaches in Teaching Junior                                                 Cycle Geography  

                                     Derek Kirwan, Wesley College Dublin

 

                                      Geography and Technology: Blogs and                                                    Blogging in Geography

                                     Peter Lydon, Wesley College Dublin

                             

                                    

 

4.30pm - 5.00pm         Twin Session 2

 

                                     Practical Approaches in Teaching Junior                                                 Cycle Geography  

                                     Derek Kirwan, Wesley College Dublin

 

                                     Geography and Technology: Blogs and                                                    Blogging in Geography

                                     Peter Lydon, Wesley College Dublin

 

                                    

                                    

5.00pm - 530pm           Plenary Session

                                    

                                     Junior Cycle developments

                                    

                                     Post Marking Review

                                     Other issues

 

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