GCSE German: Aiming For Grades 8-9 (New Specification)

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course is specifically aimed on ensuring your GCSE German students achieve the highest marks in the new GCSE course. It will focus on exploring the characteristics of work produced by students at the highest levels and delve into a range of teaching materials and strategies, designed to ensure that students achieve the top grades of 8 and 9.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Take away teaching ideas and approaches that challenge and develop grade 8 and 9 students
• An in-depth look at the requirements of the new GCSE and how to achieve the best grades for your students
• Develop creative strategies to accelerate learning and raise standards
• Take away strategies and approaches to maximise students’ marks in the examination
• Scrutinise and discuss exemplar grade 8 and 9 answers
• Find out more about giving the most effective feedback to 8/9 calibre students
• Gain insights on how to stretch and challenge high ability students
• Come away with strategies for adapting your existing resources to the new GCSE specifications

PROGRAMME

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

• What are the barriers to attaining high grades?
• What is required to achieve a top band mark and how do we get there

10.45am: Break

11.00am: Stretching and Challenging your More Able Students

• Analysing Grade 8/9 responses to increase opportunities for high grades in GCSE German
• Strategies to ‘read around’ unfamiliar words and phrases
• Strategies to promote ‘high order thinking skills’ not ‘more of the same’
• Encourage students to create effective study materials

11.30am: Maximising Exam Performance: Review Where Top Marks Are Lost and How To Avoid Them

• Ensuring your grade 8/9 students know exactly what examiners are looking for, how to structure answers, and the skills needed
• Embed Assessment Objectives in GCSE German – Staying focused on the end-goal
• Excellent starters and plenaries
• How to best approach and structure high mark exam questions to achieve top band
• Teaching strategies which maximise marks in the exams’

 12.15pm: Lunch

1.15pm: Exemplar Grade 8+9 Answers

• Grade descriptors, activities, practical teaching strategies
• Potential model answers for Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, and Paper 4
• Candidate style answers and commentaries – What examiners look for
• Peer marking and its role in improving skills – Teaching students how an examiner recognises a top band answer

2.00pm: Effective Feedback for 8/9 Students – Comments, not Marks

• Feedback strategies to stretch able German students to maximise their potential – Asking questions as feedback, no mark – just feedback, amending answers using mark schemes
• Feedback suggestions that challenge and move forward high grade students
• What an examiner looks for in a top band essay using exemplars
• Going beyond a template, getting students to understand what a top-grade essay looks like.

 2.45pm: Break

2.45pm: Designing A Rich Curriculum With High Expectations: Accelerated Fluency Practice Techniques

• Effective teaching strategies to support your high ability GCSE German students in preparing for examinations
• 3 steps to revision success
• How to get high ability students to take ownership of their GCSE German revision
• Balancing exam technique and specification requirements whilst encouraging student engagement with German in the wider world and signposting to A-Level

 3.45pm: Depart