ABOUT THIS COURSE
This revised course is intended for all teachers who wish to ensure the high achievement of students in GCSE PE. The course focuses on excellent teaching approaches, methods, resources, and techniques to help teachers raise attainments in students of all abilities by improving student confidence, knowledge and a stronger understanding of what examiners are looking for.
The course is generic, suitable for teachers of all examination boards, though examples of the NEA will be taken from the AQA board.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Develop a range of approaches to tackling the key areas of GCSE PE
- Understand how to set an engaging and motivating classroom
- Understand effective differentiation to challenge and extend all students specific to their potential.
- Take away AFL techniques, feedback and marking strategies to raise attainment
- Increase awareness of exam readiness that can be infiltrated into all lessons to maximise exam technique
| DATES & LOCATION | London | Thursday 19 November 2021
London | Monday 14 January 2022 |
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| COURSE CODE | 7571 |
| IN-SCHOOL | You can also book this as an In-School Course |
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10.00 – 11.00 am: What is ‘brilliant’ PE teaching?
- What do we mean by brilliant teaching in GCSE PE? What do our students expect, want and need?
- Meeting the challenges of GCSE PE with high impact teaching and learning
- What makes outstanding theory teaching in PE and why?
- Exploring the theory behind an ‘active’ classroom environment
- Brilliance in skill based teaching – innovative approaches for bringing the command words alive
11.00 – 11.20am: Break
11.20 – 12.20 pm: Readiness for GCSE PE
- Increasing engagement in the challenging topics such as Cardio-respiratory system, levers, planes and axes
- Helping students to answer the short and extended questions: techniques that escalate the assessment objectives.
- Being in the position of the learner to make sure learning is penetrating
- Set up a motivating and engaging classroom and develop AO3 skills; how will this support the 6 mark questions.
- AO2 and 3 strategies to challenge high attaining learners yet allow accessibility for weaker students
12.20 – 1.00 pm: Brilliant coursework teaching for AQA NEA
- Where do students struggle according to the exam boards and what can we do about it?
- How to encourage PE students to produce excellent written work
- Methods for teaching the best coursework technique
- Requirements of the assessment grids: encouraging great work with our students
1.00 – 2.00pm: Lunch
2.00 – 3.00 pm Effective differentiation to challenge and extend.
- Making complicated and timely concepts easy – maintaining pace, motivation and enjoyment
- Questioning techniques for all abilities
- Analysis of resources that create an independent and innovative classroom
- Challenge the learners to adopt a synoptic approach to 9 markers
3.00 – 3.10: afternoon break
3.10 – 3.45 pm: AFL techniques in PE
- Learning to learn – how our students can really benefit from this technique
- How to use an array of Assessment for Learning (AFL) techniques to develop quick recall and retrieval for AO1
- Games and activities to promote effective revision and exam preparation
3.45 / 4.00pm: Depart
Jackie Brookes
Jackie is an experienced teacher of 16 years, with 5 years working as an AST and as a lead practitioner focussing on whole school teaching and learning. Her results at all levels are consistently above National average. She specialises in active teaching and learning approaches. Jackie has taught all aspects of A Level and BTEC and specialises in physiology whereby these engaging ideas allow students to grasp difficult concepts. She is fully involved in the examination process at GCSE, BTEC and A Level with both AQA and Pearson and has been an integral part of virtual resource building for the developing PE resource mypeexam.org
