Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course is specifically targeted and designed for all teachers new to teaching A-Level Spanish. The sessions are designed to ensure their students have the best opportunity to maximise their potential grades and improve teachers’ understanding of A-Level teaching.

Teachers will receive new teaching approaches and techniques, ideas, as well as key guidance in how to develop with advice on the standards of A-Level and best ways to prepare students with the exam as the endgame. Practical strategies will be demonstrated for teaching across a broad range of student A-Level abilities.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Gain top teaching tips and realistic practical advice from an experienced practitioner
• Take away effective strategies on how to teach the course to maximise student potential
• Find out about the core concepts, key challenges, levels of the specification and ways to structure your course for successful end result outcomes
• Examine lots of ideas to stimulate classroom delivery and performance
• Discuss examples of student work and how to prepare students to get the maximise possible marks

PROGRAMME

Subject Content of the Specification: The Iceberg Model

10.00am

• Understanding the AQA A-Level syllabus
• The assessment success criteria for all AQA exam components and how to structure the course to tackle these
• Finding out about the core concepts and key challenges
• Anchoring in challenge and fostering independence

Break

10.40am

Paper 1: Teaching Approaches to Listening, Reading and Writing

10.50pm

• Practical strategies to layer the learning of subject content linking to assessment of grammar and translation skills
• What makes great teaching?: A text-based approach to teaching A-Level step-by-step
• Exploiting a text: Reading and Listening for learning; Teaching the exam micro-skills
• Strategies to maximise exam skills in all ability students

Lunch

12.10pm

Teaching Approaches to Literature and Film for Paper 2

1.10pm

• Adopting a holistic approach to Literature and Film before adopting a linear analysis
• Practical strategies to develop writing skills and moving from description to analysis
• How to maximise vocabulary acquisition in every lesson
• What makes an excellent essay? Analysing texts from past papers

Break

2.00pm

Paper 3: Effective Teaching Approaches for the Speaking Paper

2.10pm

• Tackling the demands of the Oral exam: practical strategies to embed oracy in all lessons
• Monitoring oral work and the Independent Research project
• Working with your Spanish Assistant

Innovative Uses of IT at A-Level to Maximise Exam Performance

3.10pm

• Using a variety of digital tools to support A-Level teaching throughout the course
• Using digital tools to motivate and cater for different abilities

Depart

3.45pm