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 1st
Tour – Walking Tour of Waterford with Jack Burtcheall
1.30 – 2.30 2nd 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.
