Alan who runs the KES Pilot Blog, needs some help from KHCTC Geographers, he is part of a group that considers the direction and content of the Pilot course, the group will be meeting the awarding bodies, the people who decide the structure and content of the upcoming new GCSEs in Geography.
He wants to know
‘What you would say to an awarding body’s specification development team?’
This is your chance to have an impact on what future Geographers might learn and the structure of the GCSE that they study.
Consider what you have done so far on the Pilot, its structure and the way you are taught, what have you enjoyed or been interested in?
Also feel free to offer informed comments about how you would like Geography to develop at this level, what would you include in terms of content? How would you assess it?
If you wish to pass comments onto me at school, please do.
Deadline Thursday.
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Written on Tue, 17 April 2007 at 10:13 pm
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April 18th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
OMG what a day, anyway comments …
… I think the way of assessing geography is great with the coursework in year 10 and 11 and the final exam on year 11. I think the Antarctica module is my favorite out of the two so far. I think that we should get a bit more hard core geography in there such as a unit on geographical skills: including maps, land surveying, field coursework, rocks etc and these skills will be assessed practically. Like in science, ‘can do tests’. It will add a practical element to geography which most people will enjoy.
All The Best
Stringy
http://tdstringy.wordpress.com
(please can you pass my blog address onto him, so he can maybe look into the power of student evaluation through blogging)
April 18th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Thanks for your comment Stringy, always welcome.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Thanks very much - any more for any more ??
April 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Must be tired from the first week back…