ABOUT THIS COURSE
This is a brand new course which has been designed to help maximise the performance of your students in the new Politics A level exams. It will give feedback on the latest exams and how the new exam has changed from the legacy A level, and will help with the best approaches to the specification content, while exploring the key elements of the new exam.
The course will discuss and demonstrate practical strategies for teaching to support all levels of student ability as well as marking activities to confirm that your students are on track to achieve as well as possible. Examples may be drawn from the Edexcel/Pearson specification but the course itself, the practical approaches, methods, guidance and so on is designed to be of benefit for teachers of all exam boards.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
- An opportunity to review your teaching of the new specification
- Excellent teaching ideas to make links and extend thinking skills which help students achieve higher grades
- Focus on the assessment objectives and level based marking to help your students gain top marks
- Update your teaching activities and scheme of work for improved teaching
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| COURSE CODE | 7287 |
| IN-SCHOOL | You can also book this as an In-School Course |
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10.00-10.40am
The new exam – reflections and approaches
- Discussion of the challenges experienced by all delegates on this first year of the exam
- How to engage students in the content of the course, and how to maximise their focus on what brings the most reward in examinations
10.40 – 11.00am
Morning Break
11.00-12.30pm
Teaching the Core Ideas
- Liberalism
- Conservatism
- Socialism
- Political Ideologies – the key points and topics in the new specification and challenges for teachers including:
- The core principles of the above
- The divisions within each core political idea
- How they relate to the 4 themes of Human Nature, the State, Society and the Economy
- The key thinkers which the specification lists for each of the political ideas
- Scheme of Work and teaching review – how to meet the demands of the new specification to ensure student progress
- Tricky areas: how to integrate Political Ideologies into the teaching of the other components, to enhance student understanding and improve answers to synoptic questions
12.30 – 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30 – 2.00pm
Books and other Resources
Review of useful books and other resources to use as teaching aids
- Teaching techniques which stretch and challenge the most able
- Encouraging independent learning on Political Ideas – methods to extend all students and increase their confidence in A-level Politics
2.00 – 2.45pm
Planning the teaching of the Non-Core Ideas
Non-core Ideologies – the key points and challenges for teachers including:
- The core principles of the above
- The divisions within each core political idea
- How they relate to the 4 themes of Human Nature, the State, Society and the Economy
- The key thinkers which the specification lists for each of the political ideas
Review of useful books and other resources to use as teaching aids
- Teaching techniques which stretch and challenge the most able
- Encouraging independent learning on Political Ideas – methods to extend all students and increase their confidence in A-level Politics
2.45 – 3.30pm
Assessment Objectives & Level-based marking
Assessment Objectives and level-based marking – why these matter and how to ensure students stay on track
- Marking exercises to demonstrate the standard and for use with students
- Review of assessment criteria and how to teach exam technique to students for high marks
3.30 – 4.00pm
Tactics to approach the questions for the highest grades possible
- Questions, question types
- The 30-mark questions and essays: what does a grade A/A* candidate need to do?
- Varying commentary practice to stretch all students
- Different approaches to questions
- How to deal with the different question stem
4.00pm Depart
Kathy Schindler
Kathy Schindler has taught at and led an A Level Politics department at a top state school for nearly 20 years. She is an experienced A Level Politics examiner and Team Leader for a major awarding group. She was involved in writing the new A Level Politics linear specification and has co-written two A Level Politics textbooks, published by Pearson. She runs many training sessions to help teachers prepare for the new Politics A Level. She also runs sessions in schools to support teachers as well as students.
