Teaching Pearson/Edexcel GCSE History For The First Time

Course Code: T0045 £289.00

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
GCSE - Code: T0045

Teaching Pearson/Edexcel GCSE History For The First Time

COURSE LEADER

Malcolm Chandler was Chief Examiner for GCSE History for twenty years and has been leading courses for teachers and students since 1998, throughout England and Wales, but also in Europe and Dubai. He aims to simplify the demands of GCSE History for both teachers and students by avoiding ‘jargon’ and using straightforward terminology.

He believes that the best way of teaching history and improving results is to set clear, manageable targets for students and to enable them to feel ‘part of the process’. Many schools that have adopted the approaches and techniques that he recommends have seen significant improvements in examination grades in relatively short spaces of time.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • All teachers teaching Pearson/Edexcel History for the first time
  • Newly qualified or probationary teachers of Pearson/Edexcel GCSE History

THIS COURSE INCLUDES

  • A specially prepared folder of detailed notes, practical advice and guidance
  • Notes prepared by the educational experts leading the course
  • Expert produced PowerPoint presentations
  • CPD Certificate of attendance
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