How to teach A-level History: CPD Resource Pack
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21st August 2020
Price: £180
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Digital (On physical carrier) / ISBN-13: 9781398317611
Become a confident and highly effective A-level History teacher.
This affordable self-study CPD pack is bursting with advice and ideas for NQTs, early career teachers and those on teacher training courses, as well as experienced teachers who are delivering A-level for the first time.
It contains step-by-step PowerPoints with audio commentary and ready-made resources for both teachers and students.
Work through the pack at your own pace and come back to it whenever you need support or an opportunity for reflective practice using the ‘notebook activities’ that are provided.
The content is broken down into 4 components:
1. Taking the first steps
> Dispelling the myths
> Planning to teach A-level History for the first time
> What does an effective A-level lesson look like?
2. Lesson ideas for provenance
> What does provenance and tone mean and why do we do it?
> Common pitfalls in student answers
> What teaching strategies are effective?
3. Differentiation
> Debates around the term ‘differentiation’
> Strategies to ‘teach to the top’
> Strategies for scaffolding
4. Excellent essays
> What are most exam boards wanting?
> Common pitfalls in student answers
> What teaching strategies are effective?
This CPD resource pack is suitable for all A-level History specifications (AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, WJEC). It has been created by Melanie Vance, who is a senior examiner, trainer and author. Melanie is a former Head of Sixth Form with 16 years’ experience teaching A-level History.
This affordable self-study CPD pack is bursting with advice and ideas for NQTs, early career teachers and those on teacher training courses, as well as experienced teachers who are delivering A-level for the first time.
It contains step-by-step PowerPoints with audio commentary and ready-made resources for both teachers and students.
Work through the pack at your own pace and come back to it whenever you need support or an opportunity for reflective practice using the ‘notebook activities’ that are provided.
The content is broken down into 4 components:
1. Taking the first steps
> Dispelling the myths
> Planning to teach A-level History for the first time
> What does an effective A-level lesson look like?
2. Lesson ideas for provenance
> What does provenance and tone mean and why do we do it?
> Common pitfalls in student answers
> What teaching strategies are effective?
3. Differentiation
> Debates around the term ‘differentiation’
> Strategies to ‘teach to the top’
> Strategies for scaffolding
4. Excellent essays
> What are most exam boards wanting?
> Common pitfalls in student answers
> What teaching strategies are effective?
This CPD resource pack is suitable for all A-level History specifications (AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, WJEC). It has been created by Melanie Vance, who is a senior examiner, trainer and author. Melanie is a former Head of Sixth Form with 16 years’ experience teaching A-level History.
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Reviews
Great resource, especially as an NQT due to teach History A-level in September. Enjoyed the dispelling myths section, which calmed my nerves about teaching A-level as well as helping to review planning. Lots of opportunities and activities to review my own planning using thoughts and the specification for my topic. Very useful advice to review past examiner notes - very insightful and beneficial to my understanding.
Review of Component 1: Taking the First Steps
Really useful training resource that builds on skills in the previous resource packs. Quelled some anxiety around teaching A-level for the first time this year. Great references to research on differentiation and links to resources available on the Hodder Education website. I really appreciate CPD with real world application and practical strategies that can be used in the classroom.
Review of Component 3: Differentiation
This resource pack was so entirely useful! This aspect of teaching A-level - the essay skills component - was probably one of the things I was most worried about when teaching this for the first time. As in the other CPD packs, Melanie outlines links to the exam specification and practical strategies. I have found this resource especially useful in reviewing my scheme of work and individual lesson planning. It gave me really interesting things to consider - A-level is definitely a marathon and not a sprint - so it is useful to take the time to break down question types, approaches to consider, as well as ways to scaffold pupil approaches. After all, they were only Year 11 six weeks ago!
Review of Component 4: Excellent essays