Description
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This NEW course has been specially designed and created for teachers in their first years of teaching Pearson/Edexcel GCSE History and focuses on the key points, structure, lessons, challenges, standards and demands of teaching GCSE History in the classroom.
The course will analyse and explain the structure of the Pearson/Edexcel GCSE History specification in detail. Emphasis will be given to the demands of the questions, and question types. Materials will be provided for all teachers with strategies and approaches on how to tackle the content in innovative and student-friendly ways, with clear guidance for securing good grades. The mark scheme will also be explained in a simple, jargon-free way.
Teachers will be provided with materials that can be used immediately in class
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Gain immediate insight into all aspects of Pearson/Edexcel GCSE History
- Increase your understanding of what examiners are expecting to see to award top grades
- Take away strategies for approaching all aspects of the specification
- Demands of the questions will be dissected with special focus on source and interpretation questions
- New approaches will be explored to tackle the thematic study
PROGRAMME
Pearson/Edexcel GCSE History: An Overview
10.00am
- Structure of the specification
- Preparation at Key Stage 3
- Concepts: First and Second Order in the classroom
- Question styles: What do they mean?
- Mark schemes: How do they operate?
- Demands of Grades 2, 4, 5, 8 and 9
Break
11.15am
Extended Writing
11.35am
- Levels 1-4: What is expected?
- Detailed analysis of the questions
- Analysis of content for levels in the mark scheme
- Dealing with the depth of content
- Special focus on the ‘account’ question
- Ideas for lessons to tackle areas of controversy
- Activities for use in class
Lunch
12.30pm
Tackling Source and Interpretation Questions
1.30pm
- Levels 1-4: What is expected?
- Detailed analysis of the questions
- Innovative approaches to source questions
- Tackling interpretations
- Ideas for lessons to tackle areas of controversy
- Activities for use in class
Break
2.10pm
Teaching the Thematic Study
2.25pm
- Innovative ways of teaching the unit
- Detailed analysis of the questions
- Analysis of content for levels in the mark scheme
- Dealing with the depth of content
- Ideas for lessons to tackle areas of controversy
- Activities for use in class
Depart
3.15pm