PEfest 2021

Outline: This webinar is suitable for both new and experienced teachers of the Physiological component. It will explore a variety of (both face to face and on-line) teaching and learning strategies as well as essential revision and examination techniques. It will equip teachers with a variety of tools to enable students to engage with and apply their knowledge to some of the more challenging topic areas.

Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

Anatomy & Physiology:

Strategies for blended learning will be offered throughout

Respiratory system:

• Gas exchange at the alveoli and at the muscles.

Exploration of:

• Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) –
  • ATP as ‘energy currency’
  • breakdown and resynthesis
  • the glycolytic system – key features
• the energy continuum
• the recovery process

Exercise Physiology:

Training methods

• Training methods and fitness components
  • strategies for clarifying and remembering the crucial specifics
  • exemplified through strength training
• Knowing and understanding physiological adaptations for different types of training
  • exemplified through aerobic training
• Synoptic: including exploration of a variety of Exercise Physiology topic areas
  • strategies for introducing and developing synoptic skills
  • improving performance in the 20-mark synoptic question
  • approaches for accessing the higher mark scheme levels
  • discussion and reflection on a Level Four answer

Timings:

9.30-10.45    Anatomy and Physiology

10.45-11.00    Stretch break / refresh / discussion

11.00-12.15  Exercise Physiology

12.15-12.30    Chat will remain open

Karen Foan

• Associate Principal at Saint Francis Xavier SFC – London, previously Assistant Principal and Head of Woking College’s Sport and PE Department
• passionate about student led learning and personalisation, has taught A-Level PE for >20 years
• experience teaching the entire specification, with special expertise in and passion for the physiological component
• highly experienced A-level PE Senior Examiner
• keen golfer who thinks she’s slowly improving!

Tim Richardson

• head of academic PE & Sports Science, and assistant Deputy Head: Co-Curriculum, Lord Wandsworth College, Hampshire
• highly experienced A-Level PE senior examiner with >20 years’ experience teaching A-Level PE
• subject expert and trainer for a leading exam board
• waited 30 years to watch Liverpool lift the Premier League trophy – in an empty stadium!

Outline: This webinar will offer powerful tips, tools, techniques and ideas to bring biomechanics to life – whether teaching face to face or on-line.

Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

• Cracking biomechanics
  • building confidence – for students and teachers
  • making biomechanics accessible and fun!
• Teaching
  • interactive and engaging ideas
  • angular motion
  • projectile motion
• Preparing students for the exam
  • revision strategies
  • hints and tips for top performance on the day

Timings:

9.30 – 10.45 Part One

10.45 -11.00 Stretch break / refresh / discussion

11.00 -12.15 Part Two

12.15 – 12.30 Chat will remain open

Emma Stephens

• Emma is Director of Teaching and Quality at The 6th Form College Farnborough (an Ofsted   outstanding college)
• an expert in her field whose students consistently attain excellent examination results
• having taught all components of the OCR course for many years she has a wealth of knowledge and ideas to share
• highly experienced A-Level PE Examiner and Team Leader (theory) and Practical Moderator (coursework), as well as a practised INSET tutor
• author of the PEfocus (OCR endorsed) ‘Sports Psychology’ Teacher Resource File
• a keen netballer and traveller – Emma’s scratch map is coming along nicely!

The webinar will include:

• practical and EAPI
• common challenges faced with solutions suggested
• discussion and Q&A
• comprehensive course materials (emailed before the event)

Timings:

1.30 – 2.45     Session 1

2.45 – 3.00      Stretch / refresh / discuss

3.00 – 3.15      Session 2

3.15 – 3.30      Chat will remain open

Pete Bignall

• is Director of Sport and Physical Education at Abingdon School
• a highly experienced teacher of OCR A-level Physical Education
• a professional, experienced Senior Moderator – with a clear understanding of the marking criteria
• Pete oversees the annual Standardisation weekend for coursework moderators (practical and EAPI)
• enjoys golf, a good coffee, a good book and regular running

Outline: This confidence building webinar is suitable for all teachers of AL PE, and will focus on exam readiness – ensuring all students produce and achieve their best ‘on the day’. It will incorporate all theory components.

Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

• Raising grades
  • do-able strategies for higher achievement for every student
• Knowing exactly what examiners are looking for
  • clear guidance for students
• Keeping the exam at the forefront of teaching
  • schemes of work
  • student feedback
  • revision strategies
•  Synoptic:
  • knowing what’s needed
  • and how to ‘get there’
  • exemplar answers – discussion
  • exploring the marking criteria

Timings:

9.30 – 10.45 Part One

10.45 -11.00 Stretch break / refresh / discussion

11.00 -12.15 Part Two

12.15 – 12.30 Chat will remain open

Emma Stephens

• Director of Teaching and Quality at The 6th Form College Farnborough (an Ofsted   outstanding college)
• an expert in her field whose students consistently attain excellent examination results
• having taught all components of the OCR course for many years she has a wealth of knowledge and ideas to share
• highly experienced A-Level PE Senior Examiner (theory) and Practical Moderator (coursework), as well as a practised INSET tutor
• author of the PEfocus (OCR endorsed) ‘Sports Psychology’ Teacher Resource File
• a keen netballer and traveller – Emma’s scratch map is coming along nicely!

Outline: This session is suitable for all teachers of AL PE and will use examples from all theory components.  It will focus on how to implement a teaching and learning methodology which maximises long term memory. Part One will focus on strategies to maximise active learning and how to hook and encode information into the long-term memory. Part Two will be on how to remember key facts forever!

Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

• Strategies to maximise active learning and encoding of information into the long- term memory
  • flipped learning
  • innovative retrieval strategies to promote interleaving
  • unique memory methods to hook information
  • use of concrete examples
• Spaced repetition – the game changer!
  • once information has been ‘learned’, how do we keep it there, forever?
  • how do we eliminate forgetting?
  • interrupting the ‘forgetting curve’ using a spaced repetition flash card app
• Sample flash card decks to take away for all three exam papers

Timings:

9.30 – 10.45 Part One

10.45 – 11.00   Stretch break / refresh / discussion

11.00 – 12.15 Part Two

12.15 – 12.30 Chat will remain open

Wes Davis

• teaching and Learning Coordinator and Head of Sport at Worcester Sixth Form College (ALPS 2 for A level PE)
• fourteen years’ experience teaching all components of  the OCR A-Level specification, with a particular passion for the Psychological Factors component
• excellent student examination results – 22 out of 40 students achieved A* in 2019
• passionate about memorisation and revision strategies
• experienced A-level PE Paper 2 examiner
• shortlisted for recent TES Teacher of The Year award
• a keen but often sad Manchester United fan (from Worcester…obviously!)

Outline: This webinar is suitable for teachers of all levels of experience, and will explore a variety of teaching and learning strategies as well as essential examination technique. With a focus on Skill Acquisition and Sports Psychology, it will offer innovative strategies for memorising challenging topic areas and explore the concept of interleaving to develop high level evaluation skills.

Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

• Making tricky topic areas accessible to all learners, including:
  • Learning Theories
  • optimising Positive Transfer
  • Craik and Lockhart’s Levels of Processing Model
• Interleaving topic areas to ensure high level responses:
  • Practice Types, Feedback and Guidance
  • Social Facilitation and Zone of Optimal Functioning
• Personality Theories: tactics to improve examination performance
  • from ‘describe’ to ‘evaluate’ in one simple step
  • Assessment Objectives – required knowledge and understanding

Timings:

1.30 – 2.45    Part One

2.45 – 3.00      Stretch break / refresh / discussion

3.00 – 4.15    Part Two

4.15 – 4.30     Chat will remain open

Wes Davis

• teaching and Learning Coordinator and Head of Sport at Worcester Sixth Form College (ALPS 2 for A level PE)
• fourteen years’ experience teaching all components of OCR A-Level specification, with a particular passion for the Psychological Factors component
• excellent student examination results – 22 out of 40 students achieved A* in 2019
• passionate about memorisation and revision strategies
• experienced A-level PE Paper 2 examiner
• shortlisted for recent TES Teacher of The Year award
• a keen but often sad Manchester United fan (from Worcester…obviously!)

Outline

In this webinar, teaching and learning strategies to promote engaging and effective face to face and on-line learning will be explored. It will include examination of specification content, and is suitable for both new and experienced teachers of the Socio-cultural component.

Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

Sport and Society – 20^th and 21^st Century sport

• how social factors shaped the characteristics of and participation in sport
• specification requirements – clarification/discussion
• revision resources shared – sporting case studies included
• globalisation of sport in the 21st Century

Contemporary sporting issues

• routes to Sporting Excellence – bringing this topic area to life!
• modern technology
  • independent learning ideas
  • from specification to exam question – generating optimum performance
• synoptic
  • requirements, timings and focus
    • exploration of recent synoptic questions
  • ideas for developing synoptic skills
  • strategies for higher attainment in the levels mark scheme
  • making Level Three achievable

Timings:

1.30 – 2.45    Sport & Society

2.45 – 3.00      Stretch break /refresh / discussion

3.00 – 4.15    Contemporary sporing issues

4.15 – 4.30     Chat will remain open

Stephen Brockley

• PE teacher and Director of External Relations at Winstanley College, Wigan
  • PE department consistently achieves outstanding results
  • Schools, Students and Teachers (SSAT) ‘Lead Practitioner’ and College PGCE mentor – developing cross-college teaching and learning
• passionate about Socio-cultural, Stephen has taught all components of OCR A-Level PE for >16 years,
• highly experienced A-Level PE Senior Examiner and Coursework moderator
• enjoys Association Football, Rugby League and chasing his son!