Subject co-ordinators meeting

Geography Subject Coordinators Network Meeting

Dublin, Ireland | Dublin West Education Centre

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (IST)

Free-to-attend,  Book here

Annual AGTI AGM

41st Annual Conference 

of the Association of Geography Teachers of Ireland

at the Tower Hotel, Waterford

(organised by Central Branch)

on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September 2015

 

‘Kickstart Geography’ 

This year’s conference is a little earlier this year and contains a number of changes to our usual program style. We’d like you see this year’s conference as a kickstart to the year. We have chosen presentation ideas that we think will help you get the year off to a great start; we have to mind ourselves as we go about teaching geography; the geographical investigation and changes to the OS Discovery Series maps challenge us to be on top of our game from the get-go; our conference is in Waterford, a region rich in geography and this is a great chance to look at tourism and geology through the lens of Waterford.

We are confident you will find this year’s conference rewarding.

Friday 18th September 2015 

7.30pm: Registration

8.00pm: Geographical Investigation 2016 - Plenary Session 

In a change from our usual programme…….this plenary session will be an opportunity for geography teachers to discuss and share ideas for Geographical Investigation., Chaired by Peter Lydon  

Wine and finger food reception follows

Saturday 19th September 2015

8.30 – 9.00         Registration 

                         Teacher Wellbeing 

9.00 – 10.00      TBC         

9.30 – 10.00       

Thirty Mindful Moments   with Máire O’Higgins, Larkin Community College

10.00 – 10.30        Digital Literacies

Using online media for Geography  with Siobhan O’Sullivan, PDST                            

10.30 – 10.45                   Tea & Coffee 

10.45 – 11.30         Ordnance Survey Maps

Ireland’s National Mapping Agency – Ordnance Survey Ireland. A products and key developments update with Tony Murphy & Eugene McMorrow, OSi                    

11.30 – 12.20           Regional Geography

Active Approaches for Teaching Regional Geography at Leaving Certificate with Charles Hayes

12.20 – 12.30             AGTI AGM.....How do we spend your membership fee?

12.30pm - 2.30pm                Lunch and/or Tour
12.30 – 1.30       1^st Tour – Walking Tour of Waterford with Jack Burtcheall
1.30 – 2.30         2^nd Tour - Practical Orienteering and Map Work with Andrew Cox & Jana Cox 

2.30pm - 3.30 pm        Tourism Region in Ireland

                      Details to follow with Eimear Whittle

3.30 – 3.45      Tea & Coffee

3.45pm - 4.45pm              Irish Geology 

Waterford, 460 Million Years in the Making: "A brief geological history of Waterford & the Copper Coast" with Tina Keating, Geologist, Copper Coast GeoPark

4.45pm – 5.15pm             Plenary Session & Closing

Post Marking Review; Continuous Professional Development (CPD);AOB.

To register, click here to bring you to eventbrite.

Investigation topics for 2015-16

1. Traffic patterns in a local area
2. Population in a local area
3. A local environmental issue
4. Changing land-use in a local area
5. Local weather patterns

 Take your pick?

6. The impact of geomorphic process/processes and/or human activity on the development of landform(s) in a glaciated or fluvial or karst environment

SE Branch Meeting

 Geography in the South East

Monday March 2nd at 7 p.m. in the Waterford Teacher's centre

• The Geography Department and Inspection.                                                                        Presenter: Domnall Fleming Senior Inspector                                                                                            

• Soils in the curriculum: (Some resource ideas and development in the Soils and Biomes option) Presenter: Rachel Creamer, Soil Quality and Classification,Teagasc . Editor of the new Soils map of Ireland.                                                                                   

• Waterford City celebrates 10 years of being a Fair Trade City...how can you can introduce Fair trade concepts into your Geography programme? Global Interdependence option? Presenter: Jennifer Harris, Waterford One World Centre      

• Education packages at Castlecomer Discovery Park.  Presenter: Nichola Salamon

Dunmore coastal investigation

17 enthusiastic geography teachers prepare for 2015 geographical investigation at Dunmore East led by guru, Kieran McCarthy.

Useful apps: 
Tides near me; 
Zephyrus WindMeter

Coastal Fieldtrip

The SE branch of the AGTI will host a fieldwork exercise at Dunmore East, County Waterford on Wednesday May 7th. Meet at the strand at 5.45 p.m. Please bring any equipment that you have available at school. Online registration at the foot of this blog message








Mr Kieran McCarthy will look at the 2015 topic:

An investigation of the geomorphic processes of erosion 

in a coastal environment

 

Can you believe it is 10 years since these pictures were taken?

There will also be a short input from Mr Andrew Cox on the topic:

An investigation of the relationship between economic activity and a local area.

GAG (Geography Awareness Week)

Geography Awareness week

 Geographical Awareness Week (GAW) November 18th to 22nd is being run by the Geographical Society of Ireland;;;find out more from their website and their blog...the theme is An Exploration of Water.
other media links are: gawireland@gmail.com        @GAWIreland       facebook.com/gawireland

 What I found useful...
Storytelling with maps from the ESRI: they publish story maps with three goals: To showcase interesting and important topics; to explore techniques and best practices for map-based storytelling; and to help enable people to make their own story maps.Examples I found interesting were Renewable energy; 50 largest container ports; Refugee camps; Top 10 most damaging Hurricanes; Population 7 Million;