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C/D Borderline Students - How To Improve Exam Results In Geography

Help your students achieve the results they want

There are many challenges to overcome when aspiring to achieve a Grade C or better in GCSE Geography. Not least of these is the sheer volume of content to be assimilated, as well as the skills in writing effectively on features, description and process, that need to be developed.
This course is focused on delivering classroom teaching activities that overcome these challenges and will draw on examples from all exam boards, covering key areas such as development, coasts, weather and climate.

The aims of this course are to:

• Provide a host of practical strategies to support students in achieving Grade C or better in Geography
• Focus on understanding exam paper requirements (based on research of all boards and syllabi)
• Enable you to implement strategies to support revision
• Provide you with all the resources & materials you need to implement these strategies

This course includes:

• A comprehensive range of course materials that can be used the very next day thus saving delegates hours of work
• Refreshments and lunch

COURSE OUTLINE
9.00 - 9.30 Registration and coffee
 
Session 1 - The (two year) course

• The issues
• Understanding the paper – what do the examiners want
• Active learning methods to move students across C/D borderline
• Assessments and learning strategies for C/D students
  Coffee
 
Session 2 - Coursework and exams

• Maximising students’ coursework marks
• Displays - the silent helper
• Maximising students’ exam marks. The top tips that all exam boards agree upon
12.30 Lunch
 
Session 3 - Support for revision time

• Improving revision strategies
• Revision lessons
• Revision packages
2.30 Finish