Harnessing young people’s natural curiosity about the world and helping them to converse competently about our ever-changing planet is a big task for geography teachers.
The Geography Mastery Secondary programme provides confidence and consistency in your department. This brilliantly sequenced curriculum integrates adaptable teaching and fieldwork resources, CPD, cumulative assessment, benchmarking, standardisation and a network of support.
The programme inspires students to be passionate about geography, and 8 in 10 piloting the programme agree that it positively impacts pupil progress. It is built around a unique and rigorous curriculum that connects physical processes and human interactions via contemporary case studies and exciting topics like food security and ocean geography.
The curriculum has been created in collaboration with one of the largest multi-academy trusts in the country, Ark, and has been incubated, piloted, and fine-tuned in 30 schools over four years.
Geography Mastery provides us with a clear, well-thought-through 'Curriculum Overview'. It even includes a comprehensive narrative explaining the key themes students will study each year. I found this particularly useful as a non-subject specialist when we had a Geography deep dive in our summer Ofsted. We were without a Head of Geography, and having clear curriculum documents meant I could confidently articulate the rationale behind the subject.
Since developing Geography Mastery Secondary we have piloted it in 30 schools over four years and have received fantastic feedback on the programme so far. Teachers and their students agree that our programme works.
Our partner schools agree the programme has impact:
The curriculum content has been selected and sequenced by experienced teachers and responds reflexively to user feedback and the advice of our expert subject panel. Lessons and units are carefully sequenced, helping students to master foundational geographical concepts before moving onto more complex interactions and synoptic links.
The curriculum framework includes a complete overview of the rationale, content and sequencing that underpins Geography Mastery.
The wealth of support for long, medium and short-term planning is written by teachers for teachers, making it easy to understand and implement to suit your class. Exemplars for every written and verbal task - including high, medium and low exemplars for extended written tasks - help to support your students to develop geographical skills and subject knowledge.
Adaptable lesson slides and printable student booklets have been created by teachers to support each lesson. The use of rich visual content and written explanations develop subject knowledge and inspire students.
To help identify and address gaps in knowledge, the programme includes pre-unit and post-unit quizzes that work alongside revision and reteach lessons.
A balance of formative and summative assessment has been integrated into the programme to help track progress, with guidance on the next steps.
We offer face-to-face live induction to help set your department up for success in using the programme. Teachers can join live webinars to discuss each unit's approaches and share experiences. Our lesson and unit guidance, including research links, teacher action points, and adaptation advice, develops subject knowledge and classroom practice.
As an NQT and human geographer, there are some physical topics that I have never learnt in my own education, so the idea of teaching these topics was daunting. If I had to make these resources from scratch, they would be nowhere near the quality of the resources that Geography Mastery creates. This allows me to do extra research to feel secure in my subject knowledge.
Get instant access to sample lessons, activities, assessments and CPD from Geography Mastery Secondary, the subject excellence programme designed to refresh tired curriculums and get results.
