Dr Rebecca Kitchen CGeog (Teacher)

Biography

Occupation: Geography Teacher Employer: Aylesbury High School Memo: Becky is Curriculum Manager for Humanities and Head of Geography at Aylesbury High School in Buckinghamshire. She has been a member of the Geographical Association's Secondary Phase Committee since 2009 and has presented workshops and research findings at national conferences. In 2011 her department was awarded the Geographical Association's Secondary Geography Quality Mark Centre of Excellence status and in 2009 she was presented with the Ordnance Survey Award for contributions to Geography in Secondary Education. She has authored a variety of articles and resources including Teaching Geography, GCSE Bitesize, Geography Teaching Today and KS3 Geography, a new series of textbooks published by Collins in conjunction with the Geographical Association, and has examined at A level for both Edexcel and AQA. She has just achieved a distinction in her MA in Education at Oxford Brookes, where her dissertation investigated Year 7s perceptions of geographical knowledge, and is hoping to embark on an EdD at the University of Cambridge in October 2012.