geocapabilties leadership questions
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Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.orghttp://www.geocapabilities.org
GeoCapabilitiesLeadership Questions
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Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.orghttp://www.geocapabilities.org
Curriculum leadership and advocacy
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Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.orghttp://www.geocapabilities.org
Leadership and Advocacy
• What is leadership? What is the difference between leaders and managers?
• Have you thought about who are subject leaders?
• How important is subject expertise?• In what ways should subject leadership in
education be communicated?
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Twycross School
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The importance of leadership
Some considerations:• Do we need leadership in our discipline?• Why? What purpose?• From where should it come?• On whose initiative?• What sort of leadership do we mean?
Project partners
Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.orghttp://www.geocapabilities.org
Project partners
Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.orghttp://www.geocapabilities.org
Subject Leadership
Who are the experts you turn to if you need Geography subject advice or support?Is it a colleague, a researcher in the field (in person or via their publications)? So you make use of a professional subject association, another teacher, social media, a blog, books or something else?
Project partners
Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
Who are the subject leaders you follow?
Professor David SmithLeading sea level change expert
Distinguished Research Associate, Consultant
Project partners
Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
Why do you follow them?What makes them
special?How does this relate to
GeoCapabilties?
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Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
What is Advocacy?
• Advocacy is concerned with influencing decisions
• It involves expressing your views and getting support for them
• What expertise, ideas and opinions do you have to share?
Project partners
Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
Advocacy in GeoCapabilties • Who are the advocates for your subject?• Which individuals and organisations promote
the importance of geography in education?• Who do they try to influence? • Who are they seeking to support?• Consider how they do this?
Project partners
Twycross School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
Geography Education Advocates