SLIDE 1 PiXL Geography Conference David Holmes and Bob Digby
SLIDE 2 Aims and objectives
- Reviewing your initial teaching of the course and looking forward
- Understanding how to manage the content requirements in the
time available
- Understanding the assessment requirements including the
extended response questions
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Future proofing our young people
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- Our aim is to support your students in becoming confident,
capable and successful geographers.
- These tools and materials will nurture your students’ abilities
to:
ask geographical questions, learn about places, patterns and processes, use, interpret and analyse geographical data, and use geographical terminology confidently in their
writing.
Encouraging high quality geography
SLIDE 5 Two specifications – a comparison
Same Different
- Three components
- A UK paper
- Fieldwork in one paper
- Integrated geographical skills
- Assessment weighting, marks
and exam time
- Fieldwork environments
- Specification A organised by
domain; B organised by scale
- Specification B has integrated
fieldwork questions
- Specification B with a synoptic
DME; A with a mini UK synoptic
- Content: Glaciated landscapes
in specification A, Tectonics in specification B
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Overview of GCSE Geography A
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Overview of GCSE Geography B
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Assessment objectives
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Command words and marks
Our assessment guide is available to download from the Pearson qualifications website.
SLIDE 10 Command words and LBMS in extended writing
A01 AO2 AO3 AO4 Marks Geography A and B: Assess (fieldwork) 4 4 8 Evaluate (fieldwork) 4 4 8 Assess (DME) 4 4 8 Evaluate (DME) 4 4 8 Assess 4 4 8 Evaluate 4 4 8 Resource + Assess 4 4 8 Resource + Evaluate 4 4 8 Geography A only: Examine 4 4 8 UK Challenges - Discuss 4 4 4 12 Geography B only: DME Justify 4 4 4 12
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Distilling content (1)
How do you teach this in 3 lessons!
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Distilling content (2)
In the Specification A SAMs there isn’t an 8 mark question about key idea 1.3 on its own. In the SAMs parts a, b and c are assessed by short open response questions with a maximum mark tariff of 2 marks
SLIDE 13 Tackling the 8 mark AO3/AO4 questions Activity 1A - A04 skills practice
Delegate activity: Can you tease the AO4 information from this resource?
Source: David Holmes / Making Geography Matter
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Activity 1b Developing AO3 & AO4 Analysis ‘Pick the information apart’ Interpretation ‘Come up with some explanations’ Evaluation ‘Make evidenced judgements’
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Tackling the 8 mark AO2/AO3 questions
Split into specification A and B as there are different questions
Activity 1c – Reviewing student responses
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Paper 2, Question 2f
GCSE Geography A
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GCSE Geography B
Paper 1, Question 1f Paper 1, Question 2f
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Mark scheme for 8 mark AO2/AO3 questions
SLIDE 19 Please visit the Pearson qualifications website where we have over 70 support materials written specifically for Edexcel GCSE Geography A and B.
- Specimen papers
- Maths for Geographers guide
- Examiner marked student exemplars
- Detailed topic booklets and schemes of work for every topic
- Fieldwork guides
Find out more about the published resources available to support teaching Edexcel GCSE Geography A and B.
Supporting your teaching
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Published resources
SLIDE 21 Expert support every step of the way from our Geography Subject Advisor, Jon Wolton
- E-mail teachinggeography@pearson.com
- Phone Jon on 020 7010 2185
- Follow Jon on Twitter @GeogAdvisor
Geography Subject Advisor
