Description
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This NEW course is for all teachers of AQA GCSE History wanting to help their lower ability students reach grades 4-5, offering new and innovative ways of tackling content and answering questions. The course will take account of grade boundaries in 2023 and 2024 and will focus on strategies aimed at helping students achieve grades 4-5. Teachers will take-away materials that can be used in class immediately.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- The course aims to provide as many ideas for teaching history as possible
- The course will focus on ways of improving the teaching of GCSE History in the classroom
- Course materials will be directly relevant to the needs of teachers and students
- The course pack will be usable immediately in the classroom.
Grades 4 and 5: What Do They Involve?
10.00am
- Structure of AQA GCSE History and what this means for students
- Feedback and grading from recent exams and what this tells us about the standard students are expected to meet
- Key attributes of Grades 4-5 students in the classroom
- Grades 3-5: What are the differences between these?
- Analysis of the mark schemes – What were the examiners looking for
- How to encourage students to ‘move up’ further and become independent learners
- Getting students to produce the right amount in exam conditions in extended writing
- Approaches to using sources with lower ability GCSE students
Break
11.15am
Extended Writing for Grades 4-5
11.35am
- Detailed analysis of the AQA questions: What are examiners looking for?
- Dealing with terminology
- Special focus on the ‘account’ question and how to ensure successful answers to it
- Analysis of content for levels in the mark scheme: What makes a good answer?
- Dealing with the depth of content
- Activities for use in class and for teaching key topics to lower ability students
- Reviewing and marking specimen scripts
- Revision that works
Lunch
12.30pm
Source and Interpretations Questions
1.30pm
- Detailed analysis of the questions and what the AQA examiners were looking for
- Special focus on the ‘interpretation’ question: How to produce excellent answers
- Analysis of content for levels in the mark scheme
- Dealing with the depth of content in your teaching
- Ideas for lessons to tackle areas of controversy
- Activities for use in class to meet the needs of the less able
- Working to the standard: Reviewing and marking specimen scripts
- Revision
Break
2.10pm
Strategies for Tackling the Thematic Study
2.20pm
- Approaches to tackling the Thematic Study with the less able
- Detailed analysis of the exam questions
- Analysis of content for levels in the mark scheme
- Activities for use in class to meet the needs of the less able
- Revision tips to ensure students succeed in the exams
- Reviewing and marking specimen scripts to see the necessary standard
Depart
3.00pm