Category: Teaching

OCR: Our GCSE (9-1) Geography specifications provide a dynamic, contemporary and exciting opportunity for students to engage with the world around them.

Why choose OCR GCSE (9-1) Geography A (Geographical Themes)?

Support and guidance – Our comprehensive support package ensures teachers are equipped to deliver the new qualification with subject specialists just an email or phone call away.

Relevant and contemporary – Enables students to challenge their pre-conceived ideas of the subject through the development of their geographical understanding.

Fieldwork focus – Our specifications give a prominent position to geographical fieldwork and skills to ensure they are embedded within teaching and learning.

Accessible for all students – Created to provide rewarding learning experiences for all students across a range of abilities and interests.

Straightforward to teach – Designed to contain concise, stimulating content to give clarity to teachers, so they have confidence they are preparing their students for assessment.

Our GCSE (9-1) Geography specifications provide a dynamic, contemporary and exciting opportunity for students to engage with the world around them.Why choose OCR GCSE (9-1) Geography B (Geography for Enquiring Minds)?

Support and guidance – Our comprehensive support package ensures teachers are equipped to deliver the new qualification with subject specialists just an email or phone call away.

Engaging content – Enquiry questions and exciting content help enthuse and engage students to challenge their pre-conceived ideas of the subject.

Fieldwork focus – Our specifications give a prominent position to geographical fieldwork and skills to ensure they are embedded within teaching and learning.

Accessible for all students – Created to provide rewarding learning experiences for all students across a range of abilities and interests.

Exploring the content – Interconnections of topics explored in stimulating assessments to allow students to ‘think like a geographer’.

Edexcel: Our approach

We’re working with hundreds of practising teachers and the geography subject community to design our new qualifications for 2016. Our ambition is to develop geography qualifications that you will know and recognise, but to update them with new and engaging topics of study.

We’re developing 2 specifications:

• Specification A: a familiar theme-based approach with separate physical, human and skills-based components.
• Specification B: a contemporary issues-based approach.

AQA: Our new GCSE Geography specification is:

• flexible and familiar
• enjoyable and rewarding
• relevant and topical
• suitable for all students.

We’re also creating a great range of free resources to help you plan, teach and assess the new specification.

Eduqas:

We have developed two new GCSE Geography qualifications for first teaching from 2016 and first assessment in 2018. Specification A is derived from WJEC’s existing GCSE Geography A and will continue to offer teachers core options and themes so you can design a bespoke curriculum for your learners. Specification B is derived from WJEC’s existing GCSE Geography B and will continue to offer an issues-based approach in the ‘Avery Hill’ style.