Teaching GCSE German For The First Time (New Specification)
This course is designed as an introduction for new teachers of the new (2024) GCSE German, giving first hand teaching approaches that work, as well as techniques, ideas and key guidance to develop and prepare students for the exam. Practical strategies will be demonstrated for teaching across a broad range of student GCSE abilities. The sessions are designed to ensure your students have the best opportunity to maximise their German grades and improve teachers’ understanding of GCSE teaching.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Gain top teaching tips and realistic practical advice from an experienced practitioner
- Take away effective strategies on how to teach GCSE German to maximise student potential
- Find out about the core concepts and key challenges of German at GCSE level
- Examine lots of ideas to stimulate classroom delivery and performance
PROGRAMME
10.00am: Subject Content of the Qualification
- What’s involved in the course? (Speaking/Listening/Reading/Writing)
- Where can I streamline?
- What are the standards in each component?
- Exploring the key challenge spots, and ways to structure your teaching to give time to the most demanding sections
10.40am: Break
11.00am: Tackling Listening and Reading at GCSE
- Ways to develop skills such as inference
- What might excellent teaching of vocabulary look like to develop students’ listening skills?
- Teaching lower and higher ability students to ensure success
- How to confidently assess your students, give effective feedback, and ensure they feel confident entering the exam
- Strategies to embed reading aloud in your lessons
12.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm: Teaching Speaking Successfully for Paper
- How to approach the teaching of speaking: effective, strategies, methods and techniques
- Teaching ideas with associated typical questions and resources
- Tackling photocards and role plays
- Making complicated topic areas easy
- Strategies for phonics and pronunciation
2.30pm: Break
2.45pm: Tackling Paper 4: Writing
- Why is writing challenging for many students?
- Looking at essential themes such as translation and extended writing
- Differentiated approaches to encourage learning and using higher level vocabulary and structures for writing
3.45pm: Depart
GCSE - Code: T0138
Teaching GCSE German For The First Time (New Specification)
Course Leader
Wanda Marshall is a German and French teacher of nearly 20 years’ experience. She was formerly Head of German in a large north London comprehensive. She currently teaches Edexcel A-Level German in a sixth form college and has also been an examiner for AQA A-Level German (Paper 3, oral) for the past five years so she has first hand current experience of teaching and examining the two main boards.