GTLE Geography case studies
GTLE Geography · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) is the examination through which the National Teaching Council (NTC) licenses teachers in Ghana. The NTC describes its mandate as regulating the teaching profession under the Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020 (ACT 1023), and it lists licensing teachers by conducting the GTLE among its core functions. The GTLE Geography case studies are 5 cases and about 3,997 words.
1The Gradient That Nobody Got Right
You are teaching a Form 2 geography class of 46 learners. The unit on map interpretation ended with a short test on a 1:50,000 topographical extract.
817 words, about 4 min2The Stream After Three Days of Rain
You are taking 34 Form 3 learners to a perennial stream 3 km from school for a two-hour fieldwork exercise on discharge. Permission has been granted.
794 words, about 4 min3One Cold Night in Accra
In a Form 1 lesson on weather and climate, a learner says: 'Last night was the coldest in Accra for weeks, so the climate is not warming.' Two classmates agree and add that a hailstorm in the north last season proves the same point. You have the school weather station's four complete years of daily temperature and rainfall records, and a printed table of 30-year monthly rainfall normals for the district.
805 words, about 4 min4The Pyramid That Does Not Match the Neighbourhood
Your Form 3 class is preparing for an external examination in six weeks. The department's textbook uses a population pyramid drawn from the 2010 census, but the syllabus refers to 'recent census data' and the 2021 census results have been published.
777 words, about 4 min5Why No Volcanoes Here?
A Form 2 class of 44 is studying plate tectonics. A learner asks: 'If Ghana is near a plate boundary, why do we not have volcanoes like Mount Cameroon?' Another says the tremor felt in Accra last month 'was a 3.2 earthquake on the Richter scale, so it must have been strong'.
804 words, about 4 min