Teacher events
We run a variety of CPD events, each designed to enhance聽competence in teaching and provide聽up-to-date subject knowledge.
Empowering Level 4 students with geospatial skills - CPD
In this hands-on workshop we will look at ways that you can give your first-year students a gentle on-ramp to GIS which gives them the confidence to use GIS to solve geographical problems.
Planning and developing meaningful fieldwork webinar - 15 September
This webinar is aimed at early career teachers as well as non-specialist geography teachers who are looking to gain knowledge and confidence in fieldwork.
National Education Nature Park: for primary, secondary and trainee teachers
Primary, secondary and trainee teachers are invited to the Society for a special day looking at how Nature Park activities, resources and concepts can be adopted on the school site.
Digimap for Schools for KS2 and KS3 geography
This demonstration will focus on introducing Digimap for Schools and showing how this GIS can be used across the KS2 and KS3 curriculum.
Embedding careers education into your teaching
In this free online CPD session, Alan Parkinson will take teachers through the ways in which geographical career options and pathways can be embedded seamlessly into the curriculum in fun, interesting and useful ways.
Delivering fieldwork for the first time
This in-person workshop will support ECTs and non-specialist geography teachers to gain knowledge and confidence in fieldwork planning and techniques.
Choose geography: careers in natural hazards
In this webinar we鈥檙e talking to professionals based in the UK who have careers spanning flood risk management, to humanitarian response. This event is appropriate to secondary school students who study weather hazards and/or tectonic hazards.
Digimap for Schools: a quick guide to overlays
Find out more about how to use the overlays function in the online GIS Digimap for Schools.
School Member lecture: Inequality - the next crisis and children 鈥� Danny Dorling
School and Student Members are invited to come along to this lecture to hear from leading academic, Danny Dorling, on the topic of inequality. This event is being held exclusively for the Society's School and Student Members only.
Supporting geography candidates for interviews and Oxbridge
This session is ideal for educators preparing geography candidates for high tariff universities, who are likely to interview as part of their admissions process. We鈥檒l give you information to help build you confidence and talk timelines and strategies to help you support your candidates.
EVC update workshop
This course gives trained EVCs the opportunity to revalidate while looking at current issues and sharing good practice. The workshop will take place on 7 October.
EVC training visit leaders and managing critical incidents
This course is intended to give experienced EVCs a framework and resources for providing training for visit leaders in their own schools. The course is accredited by the Outdoor Education Advisers鈥� Panel (OEAP) and training will make use of current government literature relating to school visits.