A Level Latin – Aiming for Grades A/A*

ABOUT THIS COURSE 

This NEW course is designed for all teachers who are teaching A Level Latin. The aim of the course is to help teachers to fine-tune students’ performances so that they can achieve the highest grades.  The course will outline what is expected of high ability students and explore ways to build your teaching practice around this.

Focussing on teaching and learning ideas for both language and literature options that will stretch and challenge able students and develop their higher-level skills. The course will also highlight potential areas of weakness in students’ approaches and answers and offer suggestions as to how to overcome these.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

This course will:

• Focus on identifying the demands of Grades A & A* and providing materials to help teachers prepare students effectively
• Look at the different demands of questions across the language and literature papers
• Analyse Mark schemes to identify and clarify the requirements of the higher-level responses
• Discuss and mark sample answers at Grades A & A*
• Provide materials that will allow teachers to cover the content effectively in innovative and student-friendly ways that push the highest ability students
• Improve understanding of how to move beyond GCSE-style answers to high-scoring A-Level ones.
• Allow teachers to take away suggestions about how to structure and cover the course so as to engage the higher ability students and elicit higher-level answers.