Description
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This brand-new course offers the opportunity for high-quality professional development within a smaller group setting. The course is designed to be fully interactive: key ideas are introduced in the Keynote Sessions, and then worked through via discussion-based workshops, allowing you to think about how the learning from the day can be applied within your own context.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
A great opportunity to reflect on your current practice and find innovative ways to upskill and refine your approaches. The interactive and discussion-based nature of the day also creates an ideal way to meet with people from other schools, network and share best practice.
PROGRAMME
Keynote Session 1: Preparing for UCAS Applications
10.00am
- Timeline: when does effective preparation take place
- Personal statements: how to guide pupils effectively
- References: what is needed from subject teachers and when
Break
11.00am
Workshop 1: Practical Interventions to Raise UCAS Outcomes
11.20am
- Pupil timeline: Internal deadlines, monitoring and feedback
- Practical ways to help a pupil improve their own personal statement
- Strategies for getting high-quality content for UCAS references
Lunch
12.30pm
Keynote Session 2: Preparing for University
1.00pm
- Developing independence and self-motivation
- Making choices, staying organised, working out priorities
- Upskilling academically: are students ready for reading lists, lectures and essays?
Break
2.00pm
Workshop 2: Practical Interventions in the Classroom to Facilitate KS5 as a Transition Phase
2.20pm
- Intrinsic v. Extrinsic motivations
- What choices do students make
- Training for a level and looking beyond
Conclusions
3.30pm
Depart
3.40pm