New to Teaching AQA GCSE Geography

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course, brand-new for 2025, has been designed for those who are new to teaching AQA GCSE geography and who want to learn more about how the course is structured, approaches to teaching the content, ways to assess students, tackling the pre-release & fieldwork requirements and how to prepare students for the exams. You will gain confidence in your planning, teaching and assessment of the course, not only benefitting you, but also your students.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Understand the structure of the AQA GCSE geography course, including organisation of content, assessment objectives and examinations
• Explore ways in which content can be taught, including interweaving of geographical skills
• Gain confidence in assessing students’ work using the AQA assessment objectives and consider different ways to assess learning throughout the course
• Understand what the fieldwork requirements are and what the pre-release element involves and how students can be supported to be successful in these
• Develop ideas for preparing students for their final examinations

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PROGRAMME

Understanding & planning the delivery of  AQA GCSE Geography

10.00am

• Organisation of content,
• Assessment objectives
• Examinations
• Planning delivery of this course

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Teaching the physical and human geography content 10.45am

• Exploring ways in which content can be taught
• Interweaving geographical skills 

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Break

11.45am

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Assessing students’ learning

12.00pm

• Assessing students’ work using the AQA assessment objectives
• Different ways to assess learning throughout the course

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Lunch

1.00pm

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Geographical Applications – the pre-release and fieldwork

2.00pm

• Overview of the Geographical Applications
• Tackling the pre-release
• Making the most of fieldwork

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Break

2.50pm

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Preparing students for their physical and human geography exams

3.00pm

• Understanding the rubric
• Revision strategies
• Aiming for a 9

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Depart

3.45pm