When academic geographers get to arguing about the nature of geography, the environment
becomes heated and noisy, the discussions may quickly become acrimonious, and
the eyes of non-geographers glaze over with a mixture of bored resignation and fear for
their intellectual sanity. But geography as a school subject can be explained quite simply for
teachers with limited or no academic geography in their background. Herewith, ten things
to keep in mind when you are required to teach geography.