Brilliant GCSE Spanish Teaching (New Specification)

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This new, practical course focuses on strategies and approaches in teaching and learning, to embed a culture of high expectations, high challenge and high achievement and engagement in the New GCSE Spanish (2024).   The course will cover teaching methods and approaches that maximise high achievement and including memorisation, retrieval, interleaving, tutorials, effective study strategies, audio commentaries, apps and more. This course, aimed for all teachers of Languages regardless of exam board or subject, absolutely guarantees creative approaches and take away strategies to enhance teaching and learning in GCSE Spanish which will reinvigorate your GCSE lessons.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Use key findings from the latest exam series to address national areas of weakness
• Explore practical classroom activities to bring lessons to life
• Develop creative strategies to accelerate learning and raise standards
• Take away numerous learning strategies to ensure optimised deliberate practice
• Take away innovative strategies to improve performance of students of all ability levels
• Gain insights on how to stretch and challenge high ability students
• Develop proven revision strategies based around learning Spanish for the new GCSE

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PROGRAMME

10.00am: The Assessment Demands for Top Grade Outcomes in GCSE Spanish

• What are the barriers to attaining high grades?
• What is required to achieve a top band mark and how do we get there
• The importance of planning – How does GCSE differ from KS3 and from the old specification?
• What does brilliant teaching look like in GCSE Spanish? – applying Rosenshine’s principles in MFL

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10.30am: Fresh and Innovative Ways to Improve Speaking and Writing Skills

• Exploring common misconceptions via diagnostic questions and DIRT
• Exploring the use of recorded tutorials as a guide for students who need more teacher input
• Practising speaking – How to set speaking homework tasks after years of neglecting the skill
• Activating students to peer assess effectively in the classroom
• Providing audio commentary to mock exams to improve pupil performance

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11.30am: Break

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11.45am: Motivating and Engaging Low Ability Students

• Encouraging resilience amongst weaker students
• Engaging low effort/low performance students through stimulating engaging, collaborative learning strategies
• Enabling high effort/low performance students to improve performance by modelling the use of high impact study strategies which provide a platform for effective revision
• Providing unique memorisation strategies to help low ability students retain information

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12.30pm: Lunch

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1.30pm: Strategies to Promote Excellent Listening and Reading Skills

•  Learning vocabulary – Lesson starter and plenary ideas that maximise retrieval
• Using recorded tutorials to increase pupil confidence in reading
• Evaluating how we conduct listening activities – Are we setting students up to fail?
• Critiquing the Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI) approach to listening

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2.15pm: How to Maximise the Impact of Teacher Led Feedback

•  Exploring when feedback can be ineffective and ensuring we don’t fall into bad habits
• How written feedback has changed over the years –What can we take from it to improve our current feedback processes
• Exploring formative teacher led assessment strategies to accurately assess student understanding
• Considering research-based benefits of verbal feedback to move learning forward

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3.15pm: Depart