GCE Economics A: delivery support
GCE Economics A: delivery support
Resources, both free and paid-for, which might support your teaching of Edexcel GCE Economics A.
You may also be interested in a sister page which tries to support your understanding of the assessment of the qualification.
Free support
The qualification page provides:
- a Getting Started Guide (which provides more detailed specification guidance)
- an editable scheme of work
- course planners
- content from past training events
- options evening materials (poster and leaflet)
If you are a Business teacher who has been asked to teach Economics A the pre-recorded training below could be very useful. It covers the following areas of the specification:
- market failure diagrams and areas of welfare loss that come from different causes of market failure
- the AS/AD model and the difference between the Keynesian and Classical AS curves
- the revenue and cost diagrams associated with the Theory of the Firm.
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Delivering Economics A for Business Teachers
Please scroll down as it is the third event on the page.
Keeping up to date
The following resources allow you access to support in the form of case studies and up-to-date news stories:
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FT for Schools
The FT's free online subscriptions to students aged 16-19, their teachers, and schools around the world, is a very valuable resource for all Economics teachers.
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Using Twitter as a resource bank
If you are looking for resources that might be appropriate for a particular topic and are looking for an up-to-date story that has been in the news, it is possible that another teacher had an interesting idea and tweeted it. Use #econ1, #econ2, #econ3 and #econ4 to search for relevant stories. You can also contribute by sharing interesting stories using the same hashtags.
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Free topical case studies every month
Ian Marcousé's Topical Economics case studies are emailed to subscribers every month and are now free to subscribers. These include exam-style case studies with answers as well as revision tests. The stories used are all very current (topical) and, as they are sent in Word, can be easily adapted as you wish.
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GCE Economics A dropbox folder
There are resources you might be able to use and/or adapt in the GCE Economics A dropbox folder.
Paid-for support
In terms of paid-for resources there are two endorsed textbooks from Pearson and from Hodder.
In addition, there are a number of unendorsed resources you might find useful from commercial providers:
Networking
We have a GCE Economics A Facebook group where you can share ideas and post questions. The group has over 350 members.
As well as the Facebook group there is a new, public, subject community where you will be able to see all posts without logging in, although you will need to log in with your Edexcel Online details to post a comment.
Subject advisor
Colin Leith
Business and Economics
