We have continued with OCR Economics and have found it quite easy to
prepare for January. Teacher A does most of the market systems, teacher
B starts with the basic economic problem and opportunity cost, then
moves to maker failure. I totally agree with the trade off being they
wont want macro till next week and they have missed out.
On Business we continued with AQA and were really happy with the new
course.
Nicola Morrow
Head of Economics and Business
Epsom College
College Road
Epsom
Surrey
KT174JQ
>>> Tim Mason <[log in to unmask]> 14/01/2009 19:59 >>>
I agree wholeheartedly with Roger. It is one reason why we are applying
as a
school to do the IB.
We have moved from AQA Economics to OCR. We have two teachers per
teaching
group. How do you divide the teaching time to cover unit 1by
Christmas?
Personally, I cannot see how this could be done. And then why limit
teaching
to microeconomics when there is such a wealth of good current macro
material? Doing macro first I do see as a possibility. We do feel that
the
AS is becoming easier and that there will be a bigger step up to A2 in
Economics than before.
We also take AQA Business and we have not changed boards. While we see
the
logic of the way the spec is written (and we could easily have put
students
in for unit 1 now), we are not finding the new stuff on starting a
business
very stimulating. Maybe that is us, maybe we will grow to like it.
There is
plenty of material to use but not enough meat for our (bright)
students.
Just a few thoughts!
*
Tim Mason
*
2009/1/14 R.Loxley <[log in to unmask]>
> I have never put candidates in for January exams and never will if I
have
> my way. Perhaps we're in a fortunate position here but I prefer to
think of
> the education process as being more important. To have January
mucked up
> with more exams than are necessary seems to me to be
counterproductive.
> Will they REALLY revise over Christmas? Isn't holiday time then
better
> spent reading a couple of decent books and developing a deeper
interest and
> understanding in the subject than revising for an exam? Even for the
weaker
> brethren? Learning in all subjects is to a greater or lesser extent
> incremental and develops with time, experience and a chance to think.
June
> is quite soon enough for exams. If I could have my way I'd not do
any exams
> in the L6 and return to a year of intellectual development, academic
> curiosity and sheer fun. The remorseless nature of the testing
regime in
> this country positively mitigates against encouraging students to
spend time
> thinking about things.
>
> Rant over, sorry.
>
> Roger Loxley
> Academic Deputy Head
> RGS Newcastle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Economics, business, and related subjects on behalf of
Richard
> Young
> Sent: Wed 14/01/2009 16:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc:
> Subject: feedback on the new AS syllabuses
>
>
>
> Nicola's posting on the January modules is made me think that
> perhaps now is a good time to discuss initial responses to the new
AS
> syllabuses.
>
>
>
> I'm teaching both AS business studies and AS economics, and
both
> with OCR. And we have opted to enter candidates for the January exam
if only
> because some of them need the experience of falling off a bike to
appreciate
> how different AS is to GCSE.
>
>
>
> So famine followed by feast:
>
> · do you regard the new syllabuses as an improvement
over
> the old.
>
> · Is it best to put AS candidates in January, or wait
until
> June
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Richard Young
>
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> Deputy Head of Sixth Form (Year 12)
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