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Title: Rebalancing the Junior Certificate Geography syllabus


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Rebalancing the Junior Certificate Geography
syllabus
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What is rebalancing?
  • Writing syllabus to a common template
  • Writing learning outcomes
  • Addressing overload
  • Eliminating overlap
  • Addressing obsolescence

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Implementing the template
  • Introduction
  • Body of Syllabus
  • Learning outcomes
  • Assessment
  • Links

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Why learning outcomes?
  • Describes what the students are expected to be
    able to know and do
  • Focus on student rather than on teacher
  • Aid to plan and design the teaching, learning and
    assessment of the students
  • Common language to describe learning across
    subjects

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Proposed changes in presentation
  • Six sections instead of three
  • Sections divided into units eliminated
  • Description of content reduced to short
    description of topic
  • No columns for local, national and international
    settings
  • Detailed learning outcomes
  • Cleaner design less clutter

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Layout of current syllabus
Proposed new layout
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Addressing overload
  • Aim at 20 reduction
  • Some statements removed
  • Settings reduced
  • Skills reduced in number

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Updating syllabus
  • Changing emphasis of some topics
  • Emphasis on services in Tertiary Sector
  • Pace of industrial development East Asia
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