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Raising performance and achievement in GCSE English: a focus for post-16 students

The aims of the course:
  • to provide support to tutors who are helping students improve their grade in GCSE English
  • to focus on the learning skills post-16 students need to achieve in GCSE English
  • to identify appropriate learning resources
Programme
-- Maximum Group Size : 30 --
9:30 Registration and coffee

10:00 Planning the Course

  • Planning for progression
  • Making work relevant
  • Planning for a mixed ability classroom

10:30 Coffee

10:45 Managing Coursework

  • Improving students' organisational skills
  • Building confidence and motivation
  • Creating self-study units

11:30 Active Learning

  • Active approaches to English
  • Making the most of ICT
  • Active approaches to discipline
13:00 Lunch

14:00 Assessment and Targeting

  • Improving self-assessment
  • Focused marking
  • Setting targets

14:45 Preparing for Exams

  • Approaches to paper 1
  • Tackling paper 2
  • Supporting students in their revision

15:30 Next steps, summary and close

15:45 Tea and depart

 
Reasons to attend.
Many students who come to college need to re-sit GCSE English while taking other programmes. This course is designed to help English teachers focus on the essentials of GCSE English that students find difficult so as to maximise their grade.
   
Cost and Reservation

This course is offered on an in-house basis
 
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