Making the Standards Work for You: Implementing Geography for Life in Your Classroom
Dear Teacher:
The National Council for Geographic Education was an active participant in the creation of Geography for Life: National Geography Standards. We believe strongly that the standards will contribute greatly to improvement of geography education, and we enourage all teachers to introduce standards-based teaching in their classroom. This pamphlet provides an introduction to Geography for Life and offers suggestions for how you can begin to use standards-based teaching in geography and related subjects in your school.
The NCGE encourages you to experiment with the ideas presented in this pamphlet and to adapt them to your own interests, teaching appraoch, and situation. If you have any questions about Geography for Life, and the teaching suggestions offered below, or if you would like additional information, please contact NCGE at the address on the back of this brochure. NCGE will be please to fill orders for copies of Geography for Life, to provide additional information on standards-based teaching, and to help you in contact with your state geography alliance, where you will be able to establish personal contact with teachers who are already using standards-based teaching strategies such as those dicussed in this brochure.
Sincerely,
Michal LeVasseur, Executive Director
Two powerful words in our language are New and Improved. Can you resist buying a product that has those words advertising it? Geography for Life: National Geography Standards is a new and improved blueprint for teaching geography. It clarifies what students should know and the skills that they should master as they progress from kindergarten to grade 12. Geography for Life is also a vision and a plan for change. It explains new ways to think about geography and its key skills. As a committed teacher your will want to incorporate Geography for Life into your classroom. Change, however takes tine, effort, and careful personal reflection.
Here is a four-part plan to put Geography for Life to work for you:
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