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For this part of the workshop, we will focus on content provided by the Google Slides above. If you wish to replicate this workshop, you may use the text below to facilitate the activity.
For this part of the workshop, we will focus on content provided by the Google Slides above. If you wish to replicate this workshop, you may use the text below to facilitate the activity.
Materials provided: List of geography employment titles and interdisciplinary diagram of geography.
As examples and a starting point, look at job titles from profiles in Practicing Geography (page. xxvii) and the AAG Careers website (https://www.aag.org/jobs-careers/).
Using the provided list of geography employment titles, select a position from each of the four categories (business, education, government, and nonprofit sectors). Write each position title on the interdisciplinary diagram near the areas from which it is most likely to draw geography and related disciplinary content knowledge, skills, and perspectives.
*Identify, from reading the matching profiles in Practicing Geography or research, the education level these positions require (e.g., high school, college, university).
Discuss and identify on the diagram core elements of geography (geographic techniques, physical geography, and human geography) and cross-cutting concepts helpful for one of the job titles you selected (e.g., economic geography, economics, population geography, demography, and planning are useful to be a Real Estate Market Researcher).
Identify transferable skills as a result of the formal education, useful for employment.
Based on your diagram, what current course(s) can you or your students take now at the current institution to prepare for one of the selected job titles?
An example of an end product is a diagram with geography at the center and individual spokes extending outwards. The spokes represent jobs available from studying geography or a related field, education prerequisite for each position, and concepts (core or cross-cutting) helpful to the job.
*Optional networking assignment: Networking is an invaluable opportunity to make connections and learn firsthand what geographers do in their profession. At any stage of the model assignment, students may learn more by contacting professionals in their local, state, or national agencies for an information interview. AAG offers contact information of geographers working in a range of fields (http://www.aag.org/ask_a_geographer) who are open to sharing their experiences with you.
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