Teaching Skills in Geography Strategies, reflections, breakthrough and a mapping activity

摘要

Skills are one of the most difficult topic areas to teach in geography. This is because there is a diverse range of student capabilities, they require a variety of different cognitive functions, they involve a mixture of different tools to use such as the calculator, ruler, dividers, compasses for the drawing of maps, diagrams, tables and for multiple combinations of skills in single questions. We also have teachers not trained in geography or the teaching of geography.