Getting ready for the new English GCSE specifications
It doesn’t feel like it was that long ago since a series of meetings about the now outgoing new specification. This means that yet again, in an effort to re-invent the wheel, we are having to think about how we can plan for the continued success of the students we teach.
The changes, which can be viewed in full here mean the end of coursework and controlled assessment, and a move toward closed book, terminal exams.
Having looked at the Assessment Objectives and what they will be asking my classes to do, I have started to put together an approach to how I will be teaching the New GCSE.
My thinking on this has changed quite a bit over the past year, having moved from comparing and contrasting the texts with the themes and ideas of Romanticism as the initial plan…
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