ABOUT THIS COURSE

This new course is designed for experienced A-Level History teachers who wish to ensure all students maximise their potential in AQA A-Level History. By providing a range of proven, effective advanced teaching techniques, reinvigorated approaches, the course aims to help teachers created outstanding teaching, learning and achievement success to raise the overall attainment of their classes. Emphasis will be placed on the content students often struggle with and strategies to teach this more successfully, how to wrestle with the challenges of the synoptic nature of the courses and skills students need for successful exam performance. At the heart of this course is the need for rigorous understanding of the topics covered in order to flexibly apply this knowledge to unfamiliar examination scenarios, and how this can be improved for students from different starting points. This intensive course will demonstrate how to guide your students to achieve their maximise possible grades in future AQA A-Level History examinations. The course is designed for teachers of AQA A-Level History but would be of benefit to teachers of other exam boards.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Explore the key concepts in History that underpin topic content to develop an integrated approach to Historical study
• Develop the use of retrieval practice to promote student recall, supporting the teaching of the most challenging A-Level topics
• Strategies and scaffolding to support student’s application of knowledge to novel contexts
• New approaches for Historical writing, how to support students to write coherently using terminology correctly.
• Take away fresh ideas, approaches and methods that challenge A/A* students and support their further development
• Develop greater understanding of the precision and detail that examiners are looking for in A/A* students
• Find out more about the barriers to progress and ways to support highly able students to overcome them

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Planning for Success: Exploring the core concepts to build an integrated approach

10.00 – 11.00am

• Identifying and highlighting the core concepts to build an integrated approach to teaching A-Level History?
• Sequencing topic content to embed opportunities for retrieval practice.
• Using core concepts to teach the most challenging areas of the course
• Interleaving taught content to promote student understanding of the inter-related nature of historical study supporting the teaching of more challenging content

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Break

11.00 – 11.15am

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Strategies and Scaffolding to support students’ application of knowledge to Unfamiliar Contexts

11.15 – 12.15pm

• Anticipating misconceptions and strategies to avoid them Scaffolds to support students in developing fluency with historical terminology.
• Example frameworks that encourage students to develop rich and full responses
• Breaking down the questions, applying appropriate responses.

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Raising Performance in Exams

12.15 – 1.00pm

• Building vocabulary and developing high end skills – spotting the key command words
• How to support students to write coherently using historical terminology correctly.
• Making links – example responses and what examiners are looking for.

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Lunch

1.00 – 2.00pm

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Differentiation – Maximising the Attainment of All Students in A-Level History

2.00 – 2.45pm

• Teaching to the top: strategies for stretching/A* students and challenging complacent high achievers.
• Encouraging self-monitoring and evaluation – when and how to intervene in year 12 and 13
• Develop greater understanding of the precision and detail that examiners are looking for in A/A* students
• Where to go ‘over and above’ to maximise outcomes
• Find out more about the barriers to progress and ways to support highly able students to overcome them

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Going Beyond A-Level History

2.50 – 3.20pm

• Enrichment programmes to raise the profile of A-Level History
• Where can A-Level History take me? Ideas to boost progression in History
• What next? Preparation for university and tackling Oxbridge admissions

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