ABOUT THIS COURSE

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Take away teaching ideas and approaches that challenge and develop A and A* students
• Explore exemplar materials to identify characteristics of outstanding work
• Explore thinking deeply, synoptic links and AO3 Analysis
• Take away strategies and approaches to maximise students’ marks in the examination
• Scrutinise and discuss exemplar A/A* grade answers
• Insights into what success looks like in examinations
• Find out more about to give the most effective feedback to A/A* calibre students
• Take away methods to best prepare students for exam success

PROGRAMME

Thinking Deeply, Synoptic Links and AO3 Analysis to Access A/A*

• • Strategies to embed thinking in TLA – examiners reward evidence of thinking
  • Teaching methods to encourage deep thinking and reflection among students – moving away from regurgitation of information

• Strategies to develop students’ synoptic links, including signposting these to examiners
• Make students work stronger (and easier!) through making comparisons to similar or dif-ferent legal topics

Morning Break

Maximising exam performance: review where top marks are lost and how to avoid them

• Ensuring your A/A* students know exactly what examiners are looking for, how to structure answers and the skills needed
• Embed Assessment Objectives in TLA – Stay focused on the end-goal
• The short answer questions on Papers 1, 2 and 3
• Excellent starters and plenaries
• How to best approach and structure extended prose exam questions to achieve top band
• Teaching strategies to maximise marks in the exams’

Exemplar A and A* Grade Answers

• Grade descriptors, activities, practical teaching strategies
• Model answers for Paper 1, 2 & 3: The nature of law and the English legal system, Criminal Law (P1), Tort (P2), Law of Contract
• Candidate style answers and commentaries – what examiners look for
• Peer marking and its role in improving skills – teaching students how an examiner recognises a top band answer

Lunch

Effective Feedback for A/A* Students – Comments, not Marks

• Feedback strategies to stretch able students to maximise their potential – asking questions as feedback, no mark just feedback, amending answers using mark schemes
• Feedback suggestions…
• Exploring ways to use feedback to support able students in improving their marks
• What an examiner looks for in a top band essay using exemplars
• Going beyond a template, getting students to understand what a top-grade essay looks like.
• Effective feedback strategies, to encourage better evaluation and conclusion writing skills.

Afternoon Break

Preparing for Exam Success

• Effective teaching strategies to support your high ability students in preparing for examinations
• 3 steps to revision success
• How to get high ability students to take ownership of their revision
• Balancing exam technique and specification requirements whilst encouraging student engagement with Law in the wider world and signposting to HE