AQA GCSE French: Aiming for Grades 8-9
Course Code: T0130
£249.00
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This course is specifically aimed on ensuring your GCSE French students achieve the highest marks on the new specification exams. It will focus on exploring the characteristics of work produced by students at the highest levels and delve into a range of teaching materials and strategies, designed to ensure that students achieve the top grades of 8 and 9.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Take away teaching ideas and approaches that challenge and develop grade 8 and 9 students
- Explore exemplar GCSE French materials to identify characteristics of outstanding work
- Develop creative strategies to accelerate learning and raise standards
- Take away strategies and approaches to maximise students’ marks in the examination
- Scrutinise and discuss exemplar grade 8 and 9 answers
- Insights into what success looks like in examinations
- Find out more about giving the most effective feedback to 8/9 calibre students
- Gain insights on how to stretch and challenge high ability students
PROGRAMME
10.00am: The Assessment Demands for Top Grade Outcomes in GCSE French
- What are the barriers to attaining high grades?
- What is required to achieve a top band mark and how do we get there
- Review characteristics of Grade 8-9 GCSE French students in the GCSE Lessons learnt from the latest examination series
- What students need to do to ensure that they achieve the highest grades
10.45am: Break
11.00am: Stretching and Challenging Your More Able Students
- Analysing Grade 8/9 responses to increase opportunities for high grades in GCSE French
- Strategies to ‘read around’ unfamiliar words and phrases
- Strategies to promote ‘high order thinking skills’ not ‘more of the same’
- Encourage students to create effective study materials
11.30am: Maximising Exam Performance: Review Where Top Marks Are Lost and How to Avoid Them
- Ensuring your grade 8/9 students know exactly what examiners are looking for, how to structure answers, and the skills needed embed assessment objectives in GCSE French
- Staying focused on the end-goal
- Excellent starters and plenaries
- How to best approach and structure high mark exam questions to achieve top band
- Teaching strategies which maximise marks in the exams
12.15pm: Lunch
1.15pm: Exemplar Grade 8 and 9 Answers
- Grade descriptors, activities, practical teaching strategies
- Model answers for Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, and Paper 4
- 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
2.00pm: Effective Feedback for Grade 8/9 Students – Comments, not Marks
- Feedback strategies to stretch able GCSE French students to maximise their potential – asking questions as feedback, no mark – just feedback, amending answers using mark schemes
- Feedback suggestions that challenge and move forward high grade students
- 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
2.45pm: Break
2.50pm: Preparing For Exam Success
- Effective teaching strategies to support your high ability GCSE French students in preparing for examinations 3 steps to revision success
- How to get high ability students to take ownership of their GCSE French revision
- Balancing exam technique and specification requirements whilst encouraging student engagement with French in the wider world and signposting to A-Level
3.45pm: Depart
GCSE - Code: T0130
AQA GCSE French: Aiming for Grades 8-9
COURSE LEADER
Katherine Golding is a former Head of Department and current teacher of MFL of longstanding experience. She has successfully prepared students for GCSE (AQA), A-Level (Edexcel) and Pre-U examinations in French in current and previous iterations of the respective specifications and holds the SSAT Diploma for Innovative Teaching.
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