As a geography teacher, I don’t think I’m alone in priding myself on developing a real passion amongst my students for the world around us. Geography lessons need to be interactive and full of high quality resources targeted at taking our students on weekly virtual field trips. I often spend my Sunday evenings running through […]
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It’s all change in the geography curriculum! Both GCSE and A Level specifications are changing in September 2016, with first examinations in summer 2018. The last examinations for the existing qualifications will take place in summer 2017. Any teachers teaching a three-year GCSE will already have started teaching the new courses! Change at GCSE The […]
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As a GCSE Geography examiner, I often feel that examination board websites are designed in ways to support teachers rather than students. As a result, many teachers download past papers, mark schemes and examiners’ reports to their own VLE or choose to point students in the right direction via specific web links. However, we still […]
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