Our GCSE from 2009 in Geography A gives you the chance to make the subject more relevant for you and your students and to grow geography in your centre. Here’s why:
• The flexible specification covers the subject’s fundamental framework of human and physical geography along with geographical skills and challenges
• There’s a wide and flexible choice of exciting and contemporary topics that reflect the world your students live in
• There are far fewer case studies – instead, you can base lessons on real-world events as they happen
• There’s scope to personalise the course to your and your students' interests and tailor it to your centre’s location and wider curriculum, to avoid repetition at each Key Stage
• There’s a greater focus on climate change and sustainability – issues that matter to your students
• There’s also more emphasis on the geographical skills that geographers need to progress to GCE and that employers expect.
To help you get the best out of your students:
• You can still do the fieldwork that your students enjoy and go to your favourite locations
• You can do your fieldwork at any time and link it to an option choice
• There’s a single controlled assessment with a wide choice of titles (one task from eight varied themes) available two years in advance to help with your planning
• The modular structure comprises four equally weighted units with shorter (one-hour) exams with more accessible papers
• Clear units consisting of geographical skills and challenges, physical and human geography and a fieldwork investigation (controlled assessment)
• There are flexible optional topics
• There’s a choice of January and June exams.
To support your teaching and students’ learning, and provide motivating content:
• You have direct access to your expert Geography subject advisor and senior examiners
• You can support each other and share ideas in our online Geography forum
• There’s a growing suite of free support materials for controlled assessment
• New sample assessment materials are available from September 2009
• There’s a full portfolio of supporting resources, all published by Edexcel
• In addition to textbooks, there are interactive resources, including ‘ActiveTeach’
• Free editable electronic schemes of work are available
• Our free ResultsPlus service will help you improve performance.
Read the subject criteria for Geography here.
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