GA Annual Conference 2026

This session will explore six key themes of high-quality subject leadership (vision, team leadership, curriculum leadership, impact, stakeholders and management), illustrating how strategic decision-making can have a positive impact on the students we teach. Participants will have the chance to work through three tasks that help critically reflect on vision, impact and student voice. This session will be suitable for both existing subject leaders and those aspiring to the role.

This workshop will provide classroom-based activities that help students consider the sustainability of different projects, before outlining a structure to support extended writing. It will also focus on how to develop students' ability to 'think like a geographer' so that they can make sense of the complex world around them. 

This workshop explores how geography education can be a powerful gateway to meaningful careers in environmental resilience, with a focus on flood and coastal risk management (FCRM). Led by the Environment Agency, the session will showcase free, curriculum-aligned resources designed to help teachers introduce green and geospatial careers into geography lessons, making a difference to students’ understanding of the world and their place in it. Participants will explore how geography can inspire action on climate change, support wellbeing through purposeful learning and enhance life chances - especially for disadvantaged students - by connecting classroom content to real-world challenges and career pathways. The session will highlight how geography supports the development of transferable skills and cultural capital, while aligning with the DfE Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, the EA 2030 vision, and the statutory Gatsby Benchmarks.

Developing students' abilities in core skills such as quantitative data processing, qualitative observations and questioning will enhance their fieldwork investigations as well as make a difference to how they approach other geographical subject areas. This session will focus on creative strategies for introducing and enhancing these kinds of skills before, during and after fieldwork experiences.