Geography Subject Update September 2023

Join us on our free online events for Pearson Edexcel Geography teachers will look at how students performed in the Summer 2023 exams and provide practical guidance on how to address feedback in the examiners’ reports. There will be opportunities to ask questions, share experiences, and network with other teachers.

Understanding the A Level Geography Independent Investigation and What Makes High Quality Fieldwork at A Level - discovering how you can do more with less and build upon the best practices developed in the pandemic.

Developing High Quality GCSE Geography Fieldwork Experiences - discovering how you can do more with less, creating engaging and exciting fieldwork with fewer resources.

includes some valuable insights into the shortage of specialist geography teachers, exam specifications becoming a de facto curriculum, and the impact of the pandemic has had on fieldwork. Hopefully some of the resource and training in this update and the breadth and ambition of our comprehensive free support in the ‘Course Materials > Teaching and Learning’ area of each geography qualification page is helping to address some of these issues if you are experiencing them in your school or college.

We’ve worked with A level Geography teachers from diverse backgrounds to create 12 new place-context examples aligned to the Pearson Edexcel A level Geography specification. These can be used by learners to study the specification content in context. The suggestions are not compulsory – any similar suitable context can be chosen. These examples are free to download and intentionally and significantly include perspectives of people who are under-represented and historically-marginalised so that all our learners can benefit from this positive representation.

ActiveHub helps you provide your GCSE Geography students with a tailor-made learning experience and builds powerful insights into their progress and areas for support via the Insights Dashboard. As your students complete their quizzes, the results from their work automatically feed into the Insights Dashboard so you can easily identify any learning gaps that need addressing. With a deeper understanding of their needs and progression, you can use the target lessons and exams skills presentations to help fill in the gaps.