About this course
Who it's for
All A-Level Economics teachers
Course series
Course outline
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Assessment Objectives Overview and Command Words
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Assessment Objective 1 - Knowledge and Understanding
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Assessment Objective 2 - Application
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Assessment Objective 3 - Analysis
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Assessment Objective 4 - Evaluation
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We've brought together three online panels of A-Level Economics teachers to discuss the key challenges faced by students and teachers alike as they get to grips with understanding and meeting the demands of assessment objectives.
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Panel 1: The challenges facing students with understanding and interpreting assessment objective
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Panel 2: Strategies and techniques to support student understanding of assessment objectives
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Panel 3: Assessment objectives from the perspective of new economics teachers
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Hosts
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Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible for teachers and students.
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Isobel Dawson
Isobel is an Economics graduate who trained as a Mathematics teacher before becoming and Economics teacher and then leading an Economics department. She is interested in all aspects of Economics pedagogy, but is particularly eager to find effective approaches for students who find studying the subject more challenging.