ABOUT THIS COURSE

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Utilise techniques to quickly identify underperformance and implement effective support strategies for success in the exams
• Increased understanding of how to motivate underachieving learners and improve exam performance
• How to teach challenging topics
• Techniques for tackling synoptic questions with confidence
• Develop effective teaching and learning techniques to help lower ability learners to retain knowledge and better understand concepts
• How to prepare your students for different question types

PROGRAMME

Effective techniques to embed subject knowledge, develop skills and assess work so that lower ability learners thrive. How to get students thinking synoptically

• Implementing classroom techniques to ensure that lower ability learners understand key concepts.
• Develop effective techniques to help lower ability learners to retain knowledge, understand concepts and develop skills.
• Exploring Active Learning to develop skills and retain knowledge
• Lesson strategies that address difficult concepts where students experience difficulties.

Discussion: coffee break

Monitoring & early intervention strategies that positively impact on student performance

• Techniques to quickly identify underperforming students and implement strategies to effectively support them.
• Using a range of monitoring tools to track performance, recognise underachievement and motivate learners.
• Explore early intervention strategies that engage learners and develop independent learning skills
• Implementing mastery tests to identify students who haven’t grasped the fundamental concepts
• Driving student progress through marking and feedback.

Lunch and informal discussion

Interpreting questions and applying appropriate knowledge –key techniques and approaches.

• Effective strategies, methods and techniques to support your students in interpreting questions and applying knowledge appropriately.
• Common pitfalls in weakness areas and different strategies for dealing with each weakness areas.
• Practical approaches to enhance student learning.

Break

Embedding Exam techniques into Your Teaching to Accelerate Progress and Attainment

• Embed exam technique into your teaching to enhance the performance of lower ability students
• Explore assessment strategies to help learners identify where they need to improve and how to achieve this.
• How to effectively use feedback.
• Methods to help students understand how the exam are marked and ways to help students use this knowledge
• How to tackle the different question types.