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Thursday, April 9
 

09:00 BST

Creating lessons that include everyone
Thursday April 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:50 BST
This session will provide practical guidance and reflection on how you can design lessons and schemes of work that include everyone. It will demonstrate how to create lessons that embed students’ personal development, protected characteristics, SMSC and British Values. We will also consider how to ensure geography makes a difference to all students - and includes rather than excludes - through understanding of diversity and inequalities and by tackling ‘wicked’ issues around colonialism, women’s rights, racism, sexuality and gender identity. We will show how good geography lessons can open eyes and minds to how geography has shaped our perspectives on who we are and what we think of others. 
Speakers
avatar for Darren Perry

Darren Perry

School Improvement Leader, Thomas Lord Audley School
Teaching is my third career and the one that has given me the most fulfilment. Currently work as a school improvement leader in a secondary school in Colchester, Essex. Over 14 years experience of teaching Geography, 12 years experience as a Head of Year and 2 years working within... Read More →
Thursday April 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:50 BST
T209
  ITE-ECT, Workshop

09:00 BST

Empowering quiet voices with personality-inclusive geography classrooms
Thursday April 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:50 BST
This session will explore how integrating personality inclusion into geography education can make a profound difference to students’ engagement, well-being and future prospects, especially for those who identify as introverts or experience disadvantage in education. As Founder and lead consultant of The Introvert Space™, I will share inclusive teaching strategies that honour quieter voices and foster psychological safety in geography classrooms. Drawing from real-world case studies and practical tools, the session will help educators recognise and nurture introverted learners’ strengths, from deep thinking to reflective curiosity. Aligned with the Conference theme, I will demonstrate how an inclusive geography curriculum enhances cultural capital, builds confidence and creates space for thoughtful dialogue around global challenges like the climate crisis. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to support personality diversity in fieldwork, classroom discussions and assessment.
Thursday April 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:50 BST
T208

09:00 BST

Normalising nature in the classroom and curriculum
Thursday April 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:50 BST
An active session focusing on strategies used in ITE at the University of Worcester to normalise nature connection, from origami and storytelling to 'nature natter' cards. The session will explore the rationale for building nature literacy into our classroom spaces and processes, highlighting the five pathways to nature connectedness, as well as inviting participants to try a variety of activities, develop their own 'nature natter' questions and communities of practice, and engage their imaginations in ways to normalise nature for ourselves and our pupils. 
Speakers
avatar for Elena Lengthorn

Elena Lengthorn

Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Worcester
Elena is the PGCE Geography subject Lead at the University of Worcester. She has taught both geography and science education across the primary and secondary centres on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She leads the Education for Sustainable Futures and Nature Connectedness... Read More →
Thursday April 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:50 BST
T211
  ITE-ECT, Workshop

12:30 BST

Ensuring high-quality geography is open to all: learning from Routes journal
Thursday April 9, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 BST
In this session, the editorial team from the student journal Routes will share what they’ve learned about supporting high-quality geography through publishing sixth-form and undergraduate geography work, and what lessons we can share to ensure that geography is accessible and makes a difference for all.
Speakers
DP

David Preece

Head of Geography Initial Teacher Education, Teach First
I'm the Head of the Geography initial teacher education team at Teach First, supporting hundreds of geography trainees across England in under-served school communities. This week, I'll also be representing the Editorial Board of Routes Journal, and the Learning to Teach Geography... Read More →
Thursday April 9, 2026 12:30 - 12:55 BST
T210

15:30 BST

Novice teacher co-planning: using AI to make a difference
Thursday April 9, 2026 15:30 - 16:20 BST
Co-planning is an approach to mentoring that encourages teachers to develop lessons collaboratively and benefits both mentors and mentees. This workshop will provide everyone who engages mentors, ITE tutors, ECTs and trainees – with critical questions to support thinking about the use of AI to support co-planning conversations. Participants will take away strategies they can put into practice.
Speakers
avatar for Teacher Education Phase Committee

Teacher Education Phase Committee

The purpose of the Teacher Education Phase Committee (TEPC) is to support GA members and others by reviewing the educational landscape as it affects teacher education, looking for patterns, connections, issues and implications and by initiating actions in response. This will invo... Read More →
Thursday April 9, 2026 15:30 - 16:20 BST
T209

15:30 BST

The difference a hierarchy makes: rethinking the power of geographic frameworks
Thursday April 9, 2026 15:30 - 16:20 BST
This session will explore strategies to use models, hierarchies and categories in a way that challenges their power to marginalise and misrepresent countries, futures and, most importantly, the individuals in your classroom. By understanding the power held in typical geographical systems of classification, we can begin to see where these labels limit and misrepresent the potential for specific contexts and whole regions of the world, while also continuing to misrepresent and exclude the students who may identify with these regions and contexts. This session will share key resources and strategies for the classroom, giving time to consider their use, strengths and limitations. Participants will leave with deeper understanding, new strategies and more confidence to make their geography classrooms a more inclusive space.
Speakers
avatar for Daryl Sinclair

Daryl Sinclair

Geography Teacher + Humanities Coach, WABE International School
Daryl Sinclair dedicates his work in education to creating inclusive learning environments and transformative education. His work encompasses consulting, mentoring, editing educational journal articles for the Geographical Association, hosting the DEIJ Hot Takes podcast, and collaborating... Read More →
Thursday April 9, 2026 15:30 - 16:20 BST
T211

16:30 BST

Promoting geography teacher agency
Thursday April 9, 2026 16:30 - 16:55 BST
In a teaching and learning landscape suffering from increasing prescription and instrumentalism, many teachers have found their professionalism and, ultimately, their agency stifled. Drawing on findings from doctoral research, this lecture will outline how geography teacher agency can be comprehended, discuss which components geography teachers identify as important for shaping their agency, and explore how geography teachers navigate their working environments to allow agency to manifest. It will then consider the implications for agentic teachers’ teaching practices, focusing on what achieving agency means for the geography that is taught to students. A powerful geography education can genuinely make a difference to how the next generation interact with our increasingly uncertain and risky world, and this lecture will advocate for the importance of agency as a transformative tool for both teachers and students and as a means to equip young people with the tools to navigate the challenges of the future.
Speakers
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Alex Booth

Assistant Professor in Geography Education, University of Nottingham
Alex works on the Geography PGCE course at the University of Nottingham. Prior to this, Alex spent 9 and a half years working at a comprehensive secondary school firstly as a classroom teacher, then head of department and, latterly, with a whole school remit. Alongside his work, Alex... Read More →
Thursday April 9, 2026 16:30 - 16:55 BST
T220

16:30 BST

Supporting students with SEND in geography: autism focus
Thursday April 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:20 BST
The session will focus on understanding autism, including the potential opportunities and challenges that autistic people may experience in the geography classroom and in fieldwork. The participation section will provide an opportunity to share best practice, further attendees' knowledge and understanding of autism and outline strategies to apply both in the classroom and in leading a geography department.
Speakers
avatar for Amy Cushing

Amy Cushing

Assistant SENDCO and Geography teacher, Kenwood Academy
I am currently Assistant SENDCO and Teacher of Geography in special education at Kenwood Academy. This is a secondary setting which has a primary focus of communication interaction, however students have a range of SEND in addition to this. Prior to this, I was Head of Geography in... Read More →
Thursday April 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:20 BST
T208
 
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