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Reflecting on the A Level Journey: Insights & Strategies for Success

Join Dan Cowling & Grace Healy as they share reflections on teaching the new A Level course, including highlights, challenges, and strategies for improvement. Explore approaches to marking, preparing students for exams, and utilizing case study materials. Learn how to leverage AS Examiners' Reports to enhance student performance. Engage in discussions on teaching methods, areas for improvement, and the transition from legacy specifications to the current curriculum.

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Reflecting on the A Level Journey: Insights & Strategies for Success

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  1. Reflections on the First A Level CycleHow has it gone? Dan Cowling & Grace Healy GA Post 16 Committee

  2. Plan for the workshop • Introduction: 'Reflections from the first cohort' • The journey: Workshop activity’ • Not reinventing the wheel • Approaches to marking • Concluding comments

  3. Reflections from the First Cohort • What has been the highlight of teaching the new A Level course? • And the lowlight?

  4. Reflections from the First Cohort • Greater depth of new subject content • Teaching of ‘new’ or unfamiliar topics • Terminal exams (as opposed to modular progress) and preparing students for the final push • The Non-Examined Assessment (coursework component) • Researching new or up to date case study materials • Moving beyond the textbook • AS v A Level conundrum

  5. The Journey What is working well Areas for improvement

  6. Not re-inventing the Wheel Using the Teaching Geography archive • Many of the ideas developed with reference to the legacy specs are still useful

  7. Not re-inventing the Wheel

  8. Not re-inventing the Wheel

  9. Not re-inventing the Wheel

  10. Not re-inventing the Wheel

  11. Approaches to Marking

  12. Approaches to Marking

  13. Approaches to Marking • How have you found the process of marking student work during the two year period? • How have you sought to moderate your marking of student work? • What challenges has marking student work presented?

  14. Approaches to Marking • Importance of assessment objectives • Planning of answers so that they flow well • Need to draw answers to substantiated conclusions • Wider range of case study material – beyond the textbook • More in depth, focused and detailed case study material

  15. Approaches to Marking Students need more practice in the following areas: • the specific ‘command’ words used in the specifications, and their full definitions • fieldwork management strategies in a variety of locations, not just the one they have learned or which is in the textbook • planning extended answers, using a sufficient range of ideas and comparing and assessing them to reach a clear judgment. ‘How Can the AS Examiners’ Reports Help Improve Your Students’ Performance at A Level’ Teaching Geography, Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2018

  16. Conclusions • How is the second cohort fairing – what have we changed? • How is a A Level Geography recruitment? • What will the first examination series tell us?

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