NEW: New to Teaching the BTEC Level 1/2 Tech Award: Dance Approach

Course Code: T0366 £289.00

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This brand-new essential course is a must-attend for teachers new to delivering the BTEC Dance Level 1/2 Tech Award in Performing Arts with a Dance Approach. You’ll gain vital insight into each component, ensuring your course delivery is structured, engaging, and aligned with the new numerical assessment criteria. You’ll also demystify Pearson set assignment briefs and explore real examples of learner work, so you leave feeling fully prepared and confident in delivering this qualification.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

  • Develop a clear insight into all three components of the BTEC Performing Arts Tech Award with a Dance Approach
  • Know what is expected of learners for both internal and external assessment
  • Uncover how the specification can really work in practice
  • Have the confidence to plan your course with insight into the set assignments and new numerical assessment criteria
  • Discover how you can deliver this new specification with insight from a dance specialist

PROGRAMME

10.00am: Getting to know the BTEC Tech Award in Performing Arts with a Dance Approach
  • The structure: Celebrating this purely dance course
  • Exploring the key similarities to the legacy BTEC Tech Award
  • Discovering what is new and how this will affect our planning?
  • Planning the overview and discovering assessment opportunities
11.15am: Break  
11.0am: Unpicking the Knowledge Component: Comp 1: Exploring the Performing Arts
  • Unpicking the terminology used and how this can aid our understanding of what is required and support a scheme of work that is both relevant and inspiring
  • Discovering what a set assignment is for an internal component with examples
  • Understanding how the numerical assessment criteria works in practice and what the terminology actually demands of learners in terms of evidence
  • Assessing examples of learner work to further our comprehension of this comp
12.30pm: Lunch  
1.15pm: Exploring the Skills Component: Comp 2: Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts
  • Unpicking the terminology used and how this can aid our understanding of what is required and support a scheme of work that is both relevant and inspiring
  • Discovering what a set assignment is for an internal component with examples
  • Understanding how the numerical assessment criteria works in practice and what the terminology actually demands of learners in terms of evidence
  • Assessing examples of learner work to further our comprehension of this comp also discussing the appropriate ways to feedback to learners
2.15pm: Break  
2.30pm: Unravelling the Externally Assessed Component: Comp 3: Responding to a Brief
  • An overview of the tasks and investigating the expectations of teachers to plan ahead
  • Diving deeper into each of the four tasks, breaking down the assessment criteria and what is being asked of the learner
  • Approaches to the external brief, effective planning and rehearsal tips
  • Overview of how external assessments contribute to overall achievement
3.15: Successfully Managing your BTEC Tech Award
  • It’s all in the planning: Assessment planning in your centre, what resources are available, what Ideas can we share, where to look for support
  • It’s a numbers game: Working out the overall grade calculations making sense again of the numbers
3.45pm: Depart    
BTEC - Code: T0366

NEW: New to Teaching the BTEC Level 1/2 Tech Award: Dance Approach

COURSE LEADER

Justine Reeve has been a standards verifier for Edexcel’s/ Pearson’s BTEC Level 2 and 3 and was an A Level Dance examiner/moderator. She is presently an external expert for OFQUAL. She has written published dance resources for South East Dance, Pavilion Dance South West and Pearson Education and her book ‘Dance Improvisations’ is published by Human Kinetics. She has been involved in the writing of many syllabus units for BTEC Level 2 and 3 as well as educational resources for Dance companies.

In 2015 she was the Developer/Writer for London Curriculum Dance Module for Sadler’s Wells. She has been devising and delivering continued professional development courses for Keynote Educational since 2005 and was an animateur with Rambert Dance Company for ten years. Justine is well known to dance practitioners as the creator of ‘The Dance Teachers agony aunt’ facebook group providing online support for more than 1500 dance teachers in the UK.

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