Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This webinar will demonstrate how to guide your more able students to achieve top grades in future examinations. We will explore the characteristics of high performing students, and you will leave with a vast range of resources and practical strategies that will enable you to meet the needs of your most able students and ultimately increase A/ A* grade attainment at A Level and GCSE grades 8/9.

PROGRAMME

4.00pm: Challenging our most able students 

• Who are our most able students?
• Why do we have to challenge our most able students?
• How are A/A* Grades achieved at A Level and levels 8/9 at GCSE?

4.15pm: Focus on assessment demands for A/A* students. 

• The demands of all components, the use of assessment objectives as a framework.
• Feedback and grading analysis from the most recent exam.
• What is the examiner looking for to achieve these top grades?

 4.30pm:  High impact strategies to stretch and challenge our most able students

• Questioning techniques to push and challenge our more able students.
• Tier 3 Language and reading beyond the specification.
• Differentiation strategies
• Modelling strong A-Level and GCSE responses.

5.00pm: Planning for progress!

• The shorter questions: what are the potential pitfalls?
• Focus on the extended questions and essays: How to focus on quality responses not quantity?
• Revision ideas to help students produce high grade essays.
• Results analysis and action planning.

5.30pm: Webinar Ends