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Supporting non-specialists

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020Oxford Geography Team

This September, for the first time in many years, I found myself leading a department with non-specialist teachers delivering Year 7 geography. I know from speaking to others that this is a position that many geography departments find themselves in year after year and so I recognise how rare my experience has been if this […]

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