Links to posts on planning for the new GCSE

Links to all posts on planning, resourcing and actually teaching the new GCSE:

Working on the three different sorts of answers you need for the speaking exam. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/11/working-on-three-types-of-questions-for.html

Moving to a new topic after half term. How well do the key types of language knowledge transfer to the new module? https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/11/when-everything-youve-told-pupils-about.html

The first half term teaching the new GCSE: https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/10/getting-started-with-new-gcse.html

From Module 1 Booklet: Cheating Translation. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/08/cheating-translation-neat-trick.html

Module 0 booklet for before pupils start the new GCSE textbook. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-gcse-module-0-booklet.html

Starting to plan the shape of the course and materials to supplement coursebooks. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/06/planning-new-gcse-vision.html 

Will "describe" replace "narrate"? https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/describing-planning-for-aspects-of-new.html

Vocabulary. Post to end all posts on the matter. In which I shoot the Vocabulary fairy and the kingdom is restored. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-new-gcse-vocabulary-list-final-word.html

Vocabulary second attempt to hopefully get it straight: https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/vocabulary-and-new-gcse-second-attempt.html 

Vocabulary - lists, texts, resources. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/planning-for-aspects-of-new-gcse_11.html

Why I think preparing for Unexpected Questions is even more important than in the current GCSE. Plus a couple of ways I'm thinking of doing it. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/planning-for-aspects-of-new-gcse.html and this earlier post on the same topic https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/04/questions-fundamental-to-new-gcse.html

Planning the order of the course - how do topics fit with the accumulation of learning and pupils' ability to deploy it? https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/text-book-course-book-part-three.html

Using texts to model pupils' answers. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/textbook-course-book-part-two-texts-as.html

Cultural texts. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/text-book-or-course-book-part-one.html

Thinking through what the new course will have to deliver. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/04/planning-for-new-gcse-backwards-approach.html

Ideas for Dictation. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2023/06/thoughts-on-dictation.html

Will textbooks solve the problem of the new GCSE? In particular the vocabulary/topic problem? https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2023/11/will-i-need-new-textbooks-for-new-gcse.html

The scary monster of change. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2023/12/evolution-or-intelligent-design.html