A-Level Dance Component 1: Achieving Success in Choreography and Performance

Course Code: T0280 £289.00

ABOUT THIS COURSE

In this new course, designed for all teachers of A Level Dance, teachers will maximise success with effective strategies for the non-examined assessment of Component 1. Delegates will engage with a full range of exemplar material across a range of levels and understand how and why marks are awarded. Led by our highly experienced expert Claire Noonan, the course will show how to organise, teach and assess student work across Performance and Choreography to ensure that all students succeed in their A level Dance practical performance and choreography. The day will be held in a studio and will include one practical session.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

  • Take away the latest key advice on how to ensure students achieve the highest grades possible for NEA
  • Getting to grips with the specification content and the requirements of the NEA component
  • Organising and timing the assessment of the Performance and Choreography
  • Preparing students for the NEA with suggested strategies for teaching and assessment
  • Administrative guidelines for the submission of NEA assessments
  • Engage with a full range of example assessments

PROGRAMME

Overview, principles and aims of the assessments

10.00am
  • Get to grips with the requirements of the NEA component 1
  • Analyse the content and structure of the assessments
  • Feedback from the last exams– the important messages to take into our 2024/25 teaching
  • Deal with initial questions and answers
  • What makes the best students stand out in their Performance and Choreography?
  • Helping students see the connections between NEA and written exam work: teaching techniques that work

Break

10.45am

Success in Component1: Performance and Choreography- Practical session

11.00am
  • Teaching to ensure successful NEA in the performance of the solo and quartet: areas where students struggle and how to approach these when teaching
  • Learn phrases inspired by Christopher Bruce’s works to explore material for the solo in the style of a practitioner
  • Exploring in detail the choreography questions to maximise creativity and complexity
  • Creating a buzz for choreography- practical tasks to encourage creativity and originality
  • Ways to encourage learners to create innovative movement material in response to a question
 

Lunch

12.30pm

Component 1- Understanding the standard and guiding your students to success

1.30pm 
  • Exemplar group choreography, with a focus on understanding the grading and learning from the examiner’s report.
  • Explore best practice for preparing students for top marks in the Performance and Choreography tasks– where do students lose and gain marks
  • Performance and Choreography – effective feedback and guidance to achieve success
  • Take part in a standardisation exercise using exemplar material from the course leader
 

Preparing for the Exam Day

2.25pm
  • Fun and motivating ways to prepare your students in the final days and weeks before the practical and written exams.
  • Rehearsing, refining and reassuring your students before the big day
  • Practical tips and strategies for planning the exam day to benefit you and your students
  • Guiding your students in writing the programme notes to maximise their marks

Break

3.00pm

Develop your Action Plan to Maximise Student Success

3.05pm
  • Develop an action plan to maximise student success
  • Flight plans, guidance and resources to enthuse and motivate your students
  • Networking- exploring the resources and support available to you and your centre

Depart

3.45pm
A-Level - Code: T0280

A-Level Dance Component 1: Achieving Success in Choreography and Performance

COURSE LEADER

Claire Noonan has been a Head of Dance in a mixed state comprehensive school and has been dedicated to dance in education for over twenty years. In addition, Claire is a Specialist Leader in Education (SLE) and has taken on consultancy roles at both primary and secondary level, within a variety of demographics.

Claire has improved the quality of dance provision within a number of schools, she has a wealth of experience in working with a range of professionals, a diverse set of students and how to work effectively within time and budgetary restraints. Claire trained as a professional dancer at London Contemporary Dance School. She believes that subject knowledge is paramount and that teachers should work closely with professional dancers to maintain momentum and knowledge.

Claire has maintained and established links with dancers and choreographers (closely affiliated with the set works at GCSE and A-Level) to ensure that her students experience an array of artists and feel inspired for dance theory and prepared for their future dance training. Results in GCSE Dance in 2019 were: 95.6% 9-4 (A*-C), % 9-7 and (A*/A) 39.13% and 2018: 100% 9-4 (A*-C), % 9-7 and (A*/A) 72.2% Claire continually receives outstanding grade 1’s on lesson observations, she is passionate about teaching and passionate about sharing her knowledge and good practice to inspire teachers who in turn, inspire their students.

 

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