Geography and all that Jazz

Geography and Levels That old question has been debated on a recent thread on the SLN Forum. Should we be levelling / can we level ? individual pieces of work... Here is the response on this from David Lambert. He is Chief Executive of the Geographical Association, but this is his personal view. I think he has it spot on! Thanks to Christine Lloyd Staples for starting the thread. I am writing in a personal capacity on this one … Sorry, it is quite long! As a result of the KS3 Review, the PoS for geography will look quite radically different. The current proposals will be published in full in the January 2007 issue of Teaching Geography (it is not too late to subscribe by joining the GA – do spread the word!!). The PoS will be accompanied by commentaries from David Gardner, Di Swift and myself. The changes to Level Descriptions are unlikely to be very far reaching. Though the way geography is expressed in the PoS is different (for good reason), the geography pretty well remains intact, ...