AQA GCSE Geography: Improving the Outcomes for Students with Low Attainment

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This fantastic new course has been designed for teachers and leaders who want to support their low-attaining students in boosting their grades in GCSE geography. It will explore how students’ knowledge of concepts and places can be developed, ways to break down barriers created by weak literacy and numeracy and approaches to revision and exam technique. You will gain confidence in planning, delivering and assessing learning for your students, supporting improvements in outcomes, particularly for students on the 3/4 boundary.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Understand how student’s core and place knowledge can be developed, including use of frequent low stakes testing to identify gaps and techniques for filling these
• Explore potential barriers to learning and answering exam questions due to low levels of literacy and how students can be encouraged to learn geographical terminology and develop their extended writing
• Gain confidence in teaching geographical skills to students with low attainment, including maps, graphs, diagrams, numeracy, statistics and fieldwork
• Learn how different revision idea and resources can be used to prepare students for the exam and how students can be encouraged to make better use of figures in the exam and to answer 6 and 9 mark questions

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PROGRAMME

Focus on knowledge

10.00am

• Developing core knowledge
• Developing place knowledge
• Frequent low stakes testing

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Break

11.15am

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Focus on key words & literacy

11.30am

• Learning geographical terminology
• Developing sentences & extended writing
• SPaG

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Lunch

12.30pm

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Focus on Geographical Skills

1.30pm

• Maps, graphs and diagrams
• Numeracy and statistics
• Fieldwork

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Break

2.30pm

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Focus on revision and exam technique

2.00pm

• Revision ideas and resources
• Using the figures in the exam paper
• Answering 6 & 9 mark questions

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Review & reflect

3.4opm

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Depart

3.45pm