Geography Undergraduates into Teaching: A Five Year Experiment

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School geography teaching has been a less popular career option for graduates recently. This paper reports on a programme designed to put undergraduate geographers into secondary schools to observe teachers and assist in teaching, with a view to encouraging them to consider secondary school teaching as a career. The organization and syllabus of the programme are described and a tentative evaluation offered using students' reflective accounts drawn from their portfolios. Students reflected upon the nature of teaching as a career, its professional characteristics, the skills a teacher employs, their own potential as teachers and the wider contexts within which schools operate.View full textDownload full textKeywordsSchool teaching, school placement programme, shadowing of teachers by undergraduates, portfolios, reflective writingRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098260903094255