A blog providing ideas and resources for those teachers hoping to teach the new GCSE Specification, first announced in April 2022. Draft subject content released for consultation in June 2026 - for first teaching from 2028 or 2029.
The Field Studies Council has made a lot of free online courses available. These explore a range of habitats and types of animals. These are two of the focus areas of the proposed subject content which are currently out for consultation until early September.
Some of these would be of potential value for teachers who want to upskill themselves and prepare to potentially teach aspects of natural history with which they are not familiar.
We've been exploring the various skills that teachers who are going to be teaching the new specification. Handling natural history may well be involved there.
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It's inevitable that those teachers who are going to teach the new (eventually approved) specification will need some training of their own first to ensure that they are ready to feel confident in the classroom. Some of this training will hopefully be provided by the awarding body and be specific to the development of the course, and the assessment.
I hope that this blog and the Facebook group that we created at a similar time will help in developing a community of teachers who will, in turn, share the resources that they have
One place to look for training will be your local Field Studies Council centre.
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Scroll to the bottom of any page on the Field Studies Council website and you will see a link through to all of the FSC Centres.
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