Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This new course offers exciting and practical ways to move your students through the grade boundaries towards the A and A* grades. Learn new techniques to challenge your most able students to help them reach their potential. Discover the value of group work and flipped learning tasks.

This is an interactive and practical course, which will give teachers’ support and ideas on how to best meet the needs of their higher ability Edexcel A Level Business students.

Particular emphasis will be on success with the 20 mark questions, using MOPS and ways to help students succeed in the trickier topics on the papers.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Find exciting ways to engage and raise attainment of students on the Edexcel A level Business course
• Take away a range of fresh approaches to teaching the Theme 4 content
• Discuss ways to introduce wow starters to your lessons
• Discover ways to use flipped learning to enhance learner outcomes
• Discuss some ideas on how to tackle teaching of the trickier topics on the Edexcel A Level Business syllabus
• Find out how effective plenaries and exit tickets can check understanding
• Gain some practical advice on how to guide students to improve their grade on the 20 mark questions on paper 3 e.g. effective use of MOPS

PROGRAMME

Feedback from recent Pearson/Edexcel A-Level Business exams

10.00 – 10.30am

• Explore ways to use examiner reports for teaching and learning with A/A* students
• Discuss key takeaways for A/A* learners from the most recent AQA A-Level Business exams
• Sharing best practice with use of command words for A/A* learners
• Discussion of misconceptions that might come up on the exams as identified by examiners
• Explore ways to structure lessons to challenge high ability learners

Focus on 20-mark questions

10.30 – 11.00am

• Discover ways for A/A* students to effectively use MOPS in their 20 mark essays
• 7 steps to successful 20-mark essays
• Developing the use of external PESTLE factors in A/A* essays
• Discover ways to enhance A/A* student analysis with logical chains of reason
• Practice techniques to teach students how to get effective context and application in essays
• Exciting ways to encourage students to use definitions for important knowledge marks

Morning Break

11.20 – 11.40am

Starters and Plenaries and Everything in Between

11.40 – 12.30pm

• Discover exciting starters to engage A/A* learners
• Employing effective plenaries to check understanding of high ability students
• Practice use of mini plenaries to improve lesson outcomes for A/A* students
• Explore the use of flipped learning tasks to challenge your top students to achieve their A/A* potential

Lunch

12.30 – 1.30pm

Tackling the Trickier Topics

1.30 – 2.20pm

• Discover fresh and engaging approaches and techniques to teach Ratio Analysis to improve A/A* learner outcomes
• Find practical methods to teach Supply and Demand
• Examiner pro tips on teaching Calculations
• Approaches to teaching the effective use of case study charts in exams

Afternoon Break

2.20 – 2.30pm

Examiner Hints and Key Takeaways

2.30 – 3.30pm

• Tips for success on the AQA A-Level Business exams
• Find out about revision techniques to teach in class
• Discover techniques to help A/A* students make best use of their revision time
• New approaches to encourage students to trade up terms in their essays
• Embedding digital revision techniques into lessons and research