Calling all Secondary school teachers in the Bristol area!
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust are offering an exciting opportunity to become a member of a steering and development group for our new GIS Geography education project. Since the introduction of GIS to the curriculum, a lack of CPD opportunities for teachers to learn how to use it has become a barrier to its use in the classroom. BART will be developing this GIS project to provide an outstanding, locally focused and cross specification teaching package aimed at KS3-5 pupils and teachers.
GIS is an essential tool to many industries including urban planning, government, business and marketing. Its importance in everyday life is growing as human pressures on the environment increase with growing populations. As outdoor education and engagement with the natural environment is reduced with health and safety restrictions, GIS represents a crucial way for teachers to educate young people on the water cycle and land and river management, and we are in an exciting and privileged position to develop this opportunity.
We will be developing this GIS package through a teacher liaison panel to co-design the programmes of study. Contributing teachers can expect to benefit from this unrivalled CPD opportunity by becoming fully trained in using GIS and delivery of the programmes of study. This will enable you to return to your school as a GIS teacher specialist, allowing you to lead the delivery of GIS training and teaching in your own school. This is a free opportunity and travel expenses will be covered.
The project aims to teach competent transferable GIS skills whilst developing pupils understanding of some of the many locally important physical and human geographical features in the Avon catchment. Contributing teachers will need to be able to commit to attending a 3 after-school training sessions in Bristol.
If you are interested in being involved in the liaison panel, please get in touch at alec@bristolavonriverstrust.org
Kind regards,
Alec Richardson
Education & Community Engagement Officer
