Ask staff to evaluate their own skills and knowledge
Download and adapt our staff self-assessment tool and encourage your teachers to complete it.
Ask staff to respond honestly, emphasising that you want to help them feel more comfortable and confident teaching the subject.
This will give you a good understanding of how confident your staff are in teaching geography, and help them reflect on their own skills and knowledge.
The self-assessment covers:
- Key subject knowledge from the National Curriculum geography programmes of study – KS1 and KS2
- General geography teaching skills
Audit your current geography teaching to find areas to develop
Use their answers to the self-assessment tool (above) to answer several questions in