Description
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This new course is focussed on how to ensure your students achieve the highest marks in all areas of the A Level Dance course. It will focus on exploring the characteristics of work produced by students working at the highest levels and explore a range of teaching materials that stretch and challenge your students to achieve A and A*grades.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Gain fresh approaches to creative teaching ideas that push A and A* students
- Explore exemplar materials to identify characteristics of outstanding work
- Consider lessons learnt from the examination series in 2022 and how to apply these to your teaching
- Take away key methods for ensuring students get A and A* in each of the practical and written components.
- Build into your teaching top grade assessment criteria for successful outcomes.
PROGRAMME
Summarised Feedback from 2024
10.00am
- What do the examiners want to see? Understand what is expected for outstanding performances in all areas of the course.
- Identify what prevents students achieving more marks in the written exam
- Consider lessons learnt from both the 2023 examination series for Grade A and A* students
Focus on Assessment Demands for the High Grades
10.30am
- Examine the assessment demands of all components including the use of assessment objectives as a framework for assessment and feedback to your students.
- Review characteristics of an A and A* A Level student in the context of this specification
- Clarify the requirements of the range of questions in the written exam to ensure the most able students can meet this to the highest level
- Delivering feedback using the vocabulary of the mark scheme to further the progress of your high achieving students.
Break
11.00am
Achieving Top Grades in Component 2: Critical Engagements/The Written Papers
11.15am
- Planning, retrieving and reviewing- how to engage and succeed on the journey to the written exam.
- Overview of different types of Rooster questions, including how to approach different command words to ensure your students gain maximum marks in this section.
- Awakening students’ knowledge on the practitioners within Rambert and other areas of study: what students need to know.
- Refining the delivery and their understanding of Rambert’s history using a variety of resources.
- How to refine essay writing for your students to prepare for the 25 mark essay response.
- Example responses and marking tasks with feedback.
Lunch
12.30pm
Achieving Top Grades in Component 1: Performance and Choreography
1.30pm
- Improving performance and technique: strategies for giving feedback to students using the marking criteria.
- High expectations: tools to stretch and challenge your students in the lead up to the practical exam.
- Exemplar solo and quartet work of A and A*students, with a focus on understanding the demands of achieving highly in the practical exam.
- How to support your students in their choreography process: giving regular and meaningful feedback
- Exemplar group choreography, with a focus on understanding the grading and learning from the examiner’s report.
- Characteristics of the most successful candidates in the choreography component
Break
2.15pm
Exam Techniques and Tactics
2.30pm
- Fun and motivating ways to prepare your students in the final days and weeks before the practical and written exams.
- Predicting the paper: familiarise your students with the characteristics of previous exam questions and knowing how to answer them.
- Strategies to prepare your students for the assessments and examination.
- Understand the highest demands of outstanding use of dance vocabulary – what examiners expect to see from A and A* students
Depart
3.15pm