[NeilM]

Firstly think we will be sticking with current favourites

Unit 1 (compulsory)
Culture & Beliefs
Environmental Issues

- Opportunity to assess these units in Summer 2010 and again Summer 2011 (will hopefully boost pass rates)

Unit 2
Prejudice and Persecution
Global Inequality

Unit 3 (compulsory)
Written assessment - holds some fear for me at the current time.

What options are you considering?

NeilM

[jbassett44]

what's the uptake like for this course Neil?

[m_cooper]

We currently do global inequality and prejudice and persecution as the optional units, but I'm disappointed to see conflict and co-operation dropped from the core units, so i'll probably swap either global inequality or prejudice and persecution for this. I'm also a little worried about the 'coursework' task!!

[Sarah V.]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to plead ignorance (and stupidity!) here as I haven't looked at the new spec yet- it's all a bit up in the air at the moment as we are teaching it for the first time this year (in a year) to post 16 students who are not quite ready for AS Levels but still want to stop on. The idea is that this extra year of level 2 courses will ensure they have the grades needed in Maths and English to take some AS courses the following year.
So, we're still making sure we are confident with this year's spec - not even sure if this whole initiative will continue nest year.

But...

It sounds as though there are some significant changes - are there only now two compulsary units for paper 1?

And is the coursework project quite differnt too?

I'm off to the AQA website !

Sarah

[Sarah V.]

hmm...

well, it looks better overall but yes, the cswk thing could be tricky!

has the list of controlled essay topics been relased yet?

It says it will be released 'well before September' -whatever that means?

[HRS]

My students always struggle with Global Inequality the most, so may give that a miss, although I do like them to have a history/geography type balance as our teaching is split between a historian and a geographer. They generally enjoy conflict and co opperation although they do find the key terms for this unit especially difficult to learn.

I like the idea of being abl to split the assessment over two years of teaching though! All our students are in the less able band and find remembering a lot of information/concepts challenging.

Also worried about the controlled assessment thing!

[sally j]

I am going to be teaching humanities GCSE for the first time this year- AQA and am quite worried about it!

[farrelk]

Just wanted to say thanks Neil for all the great resources you have posted. I am returning to teaching gcse Humanities after years off the option choices at my school. I remember when it was 100% cw. Fantastic to be teaching it again and great to find up to date reources.

[NeilM]

farrelk, on 12 September 2009 - 03:15 PM, said:

Just wanted to say thanks Neil for all the great resources you have posted. I am returning to teaching gcse Humanities after years off the option choices at my school. I remember when it was 100% cw. Fantastic to be teaching it again and great to find up to date reources.

Cheers, hope they're helpful.
NeilM