AS and A2 Level Economics: market forces, industry and firm analysis, the labour market; trade and exchange rates; macroeconomic theory and policy; the world economy. Assessment criteria and methods of assessment at AS/A Level. Issues in 16-19 economics: appropriate content; key ideas and methods; assessment standards and methods; typical problems facing students.

Workshop reviews of subject content, examples of assessment and lesson planning. The sessions will respond to the emerging needs of the associate teachers in their preparation of material for teaching. This will involve examining appropriate approaches to particular topics, taking into account both contemporary thinking within the discipline, and the constraints of school syllabuses. You will also make use of standard textbooks and key learning resources to refine your subject understanding.

A further 123 hours of independent study will require you to apply the understanding you gain through your reading and the university sessions to your lesson planning and assessment strategies. You will have opportunities to discuss with your tutor specific issues concerning the nature and significance of various aspects of economics.

A 2000 word Assignment on assessment at AS or A2 Level which covers all learning outcomes.

University teaching sessions
Tutorials
Placement School/College meetings with Mentor
University library
Materials and Links on PGCE Blackboard, for example:
Exemplar Government/Policy/Awarding Body Sites
www.edexcel.org.uk/home/
www.aqa.org.uk/
www.ocr.org.uk/website/docroot/index.jsp
www.qca.org.uk/

Exemplar Economics/Business Education Sites
www.ebea.org.uk/
www.bized.ac.uk/
www.tutor2u.net/
http://www.examstutor.com/
http://mlsc.lboro.ac.uk/pages/economic_and_business_resources.html

Must be enrolled onto the PGCE Award.

The PGCE Programme does not allow opportunity to combine this module with any module not specified on the award structure.

DAVIES, P. AND BRANT, J. (2005) Teaching Business, Economics and Enterprise, London, Routledge

JEPHCOTE M AND ABBOTT, I (2005) (eds), Teaching Business Education 14-19, London, David Fulton

JEPHCOTE M AND DAVIES B (2006), Schools, subjects and curriculum change: the social construction of economics in the school curriculum, Cambridge Journal of Education, (forthcoming)

JEPHCOTE M (2004), Economics in the School Curriculum: a breakdown of consensus, Teaching Business and Economics 8:3 pp10-17.

JEPHCOTE M (2004), Economics in the School Curriculum: its origins and reflections on a subject community, Teaching Business and Economics 8:1, pp13-19.

Standard A level and first year undergraduate texts such as
Anderton, A. (2006) Economics, Ormskirk, Causeway Press