Teaching OCR GCSE Geography ?

Just got this message from the OCR newsletter/e-mail for those who teach this specification.

GCSE Geography A and Geography B have received accreditation for first teaching September 2012. Following the recent redevelopments, some aspects of the content and assessment have changed.

View the summary of the key changes to GCSE Geography A.

View the summary of the key changes to GCSE Geography B.

The full details of the changes can be found in our accredited specifications for Geography A and Geography B and the sample assessment materials are available to download.

View all accredited documents for Geography A

View all accredited documents for Geography B

View all accredited documents for Geography Short Course

Controlled Assessment
The Controlled Assessment task titles for 2014 for Geography A and B specification are available to download from OCR Interchange.

See earlier post with reference to Chapter 6 of the Badger book which covers this....

Learning outside the Classroom

Chapter 6 of the Badger Geography Grade Booster book talks about the importance of appropriate fieldwork for the data collection element of the Controlled Assessment.

This will still be a part of GCSE courses for a good few years yet, and if/when it is finally replaced, there will still be fieldwork and longer projects which means the advice in the Chapter will still be relevant.

Fieldwork learning comes under the banner of Learning outside the Classroom.

I'm delighted to announce that the Geography Collective has been shortlisted for a Learning outside the Classroom award.

We would be even more delighted if you would consider voting for us, especially if you have been enthused by our Mission:Explore books, app or website, or perhaps been visited by us, seen us at Glastonbury, Latitude or the Hay Festival, ridden on buses in Suffolk, cycled along Sustrans routes in many cities, explored the Great Glen with Discover Explore or in some other geographical context...

We're going to be on the road in the next few months, and also will be running our Geography Camp in December, of which more later...

Please click the link and give us your vote. Thanks :)