Teaching the new 2024 BTEC Level 1/2 Tech Award: Dance Approach

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course will cover the new BTEC Dance Level 1 / 2 Tech Award in Performing Arts with a Dance Approach, which is for first teaching 2024 and first certification 2024 with the discount code LB1. You will explore each component gathering ideas for course delivery, insight into the application of the new numerical assessment criteria and discover what a Pearson set assignment briefs is. This course will give you the confidence to plan your course, an understanding of how to engage students with examples of learner work to aid understanding.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Develop a clear insight into all three components of the NEW 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

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PROGRAMME

Getting to know the NEW BTEC Tech Award in Performing Arts with a Dance Approach

10.00am

• The new structure: Celebrating this purely dance course
• Exploring the key similarities to the legacy BTEC Tech Award
• Discovering what has changed and how will this might affect our planning?
• Planning the overview and discovering assessment opportunities

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Break

11.15am

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Unpicking the knowledge component: Comp 1: Exploring the Performing Arts

11.30am

• 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

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Lunch

12.30pm

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Exploring the skills component: Comp 2: Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts

1.15pm

• 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

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Break

2.15pm

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Unravelling the externally assessed component: Comp 3: Responding to a Brief

2.30pm

• 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

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Successfully managing your BTEC Tech Award

3.15 – 3.45pm

• 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

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Depart

3.45pm