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| Topic Title | GP at AS/A level: Introduction and structure. | Component 3 → Team Project | Reflection on Team Project and Component 2→ Individual Essay | Preparation for Component 1 → Exam practise | Revision → Written Examination Component 1. |
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| Key Skills and Content | • Introduction to “Global Perspectives” at AS/A level | • Identifying a local issue with global significance. | • Gibbs’s reflective cycle. | • Unit 1b environmental priorities. | • Exam practice. |
| • Discussion of three components; the group project, the essay, the exam. | • Creating a statement describing the issue. | • Reflecting on the team project: collaboration and individual learning. | • Presenting information and evaluating. | • Revision of the Key skills of the critical path. |
| • Introduction to thinking skills and the critical path - see, think, wonder; deconstruction, reconstruction, reflection; thesis, antithesis and synthesis. | • Researching the issue and group discussion of potential solutions. | • Introducing the essay; structure, sequencing: effective introduction, main body, effective conclusion. | • The Critical Path. | • Facts and opinions, analyzing sources. |
| • Perspectives, Themes and Issues | • Planning a team project: “Over Tourism” | • Evaluating an argument. | • Analysis of past paper questions. | • Identifying ideas and evidence. |
| • Cornell note taking system. | • Brainstorming on courses of action | • Citation and referencing. | • Unit 2a tourism. | • Graphics and comparing perspectives. |
| • Pair work and construction of arguments. | • Problem solving | • Choosing a topic to write about. | • Synthesizing information to support a reflection. | • Synthesizing arguments and constructing a line of reasoning. |
| • Communication and collaboration. | • Communication and teamwork | • Issues and Themes. | • Analysis of exam answers, through use of exam board mark schemes. | • Exploring causes and consequences. |
| • Online research and reading and recording information. | • Distributing roles fairly | • Linking themes to different perspectives: reasons, conclusions, assumptions, evidence, context | • Unit 3a: Distribution of wealth. | • Working independently to apply learned skills. |
| • Online referencing | • Reflecting on personal contribution and teamwork | • Effective essay questions. | • The Critical path: deconstruction, reconstruction, reflection. | • Year reflection on learning. |
| • Creation of a presentation. | • Evaluating a project outcome | • Focusing on the issue and setting up the debate. | | • Individual revision plans based on candidates' own strengths and weaknesses. |
| | • Avoiding pitfalls. | | |
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| Summative | Presentation on research findings of a topic of choice. | Team Project presentation. | Component 2: Essay. | Past paper. | End of the year assessment. |
| Assessment | Assessed skills: Research, Analysis, Communication, Reflection. | Assessed skills: Collaboration, Reflection, Evaluation | Assessed skills: Research, Communication, Analysis | Assessed skills: explanation A01, assessment A01, Justification A03. | Assessed skills: A01: Explanation, A02: Reflection, A03: Evaluation. |
