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New GCSE geography: key changes and challenges GA CPD day June 2015

Explore the updates in GCSE Geography post June 2015, focusing on location, place knowledge, and global challenges. Understand assessment changes, fieldwork requirements, and acquisition of locational knowledge for UK and worldwide contexts.

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New GCSE geography: key changes and challenges GA CPD day June 2015

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  1. New GCSE geography: key changes and challenges GA CPD day June 2015

  2. Content requirements • Location and place knowledge includes UK • Geographical skills e.g. map work • Geomorphic processes/landscape • Changing weather & climate • Global ecosystems, resource management • Cities & urban society • Global economic development • Two fieldwork environments

  3. Assessment changes • Numerical grading (9-1) • Untiered exams • 100% terminal exams - no controlled/NEA assessment • New assessment objectives (15% fieldwork) • Spelling, punctuation, grammar and use of specialist terminology • Maths and stats 10%

  4. Place and locational knowledge Locational knowledge Facts, location, names, features Place knowledge Character, attachments, power, processes

  5. Progress and expectations • KS3 ‘acquire locational knowledge and use detailed place-based exemplars’ • GCSE - use locational contexts, understand geographical links and demonstrate overview knowledge of the UK • A level • explore place as a concept • understand place processes • global processes/systems • landscape character/formation

  6. Geological variations and distinct landscapes created Urbanisation across the UK UK has unique climate for its latitude UK overview Overview of resources in the UK How UK society is linked and shaped by the wider world Extreme floods becoming more commonplace in UK

  7. Acquiring place and location knowledge www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk

  8. GCSE fieldwork from 2016 • ‘different approaches to fieldwork ... in at least two contrasting environments’ • terminal exams only – fieldwork = 15%. • questions capable of being investigated through fieldwork and appropriate geographical enquiry • range of techniques and methods used • processing and presenting fieldwork data • analysing and explaining data collected in the field • drawing evidenced conclusions and summaries • reflecting critically on fieldwork

  9. GCSE fieldwork reports? • AQA - students need to undertake two geographical enquiries (elements identified) • OCR - investigative process goes beyond data collection ... • Edexcel – river/coastal landscape and central/inner urban area or rural settlement; enquiry process • Eduqas - two fieldwork enquiries, one with methodological focus and another conceptual

  10. Investigating places www.placecheck.info Making my place in the world Bangladesh – the ‘single story’?

  11. For reflection • What are the major challenges you anticipate (curriculum, professional)? • What is likely to change in your school/classroom? • What are your sources of help and support, and what’s needed? • info@geography.org.uk • www.geography.org.uk • Geographical Association • @The_GA @GAChiefExec

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