PEfest2022

Outline:  In this webinar Wes will explore the most recent contemporary issues in elite level sport. He will focus on exam requirements, offer great teaching ideas, and include crucial ‘game changing’ memorisation and exam technique throughout Focus: Responding to the 2023 exam series:

• key takeaways from paper 3
• tips for outstanding exam technique

Emergence and evolution of modern sport

• focus on post 1850 industrial Britain and public schools
• revisiting and applying social and cultural factors across the time periods

Ethics and deviance

• exploring gambling and performance enhancing drugs/doping

Commercialisation and media

• applying a framework for the impacts of media on sport, performers and spectators

Routes to sporting excellence in the UK – Memorisation ideas, classroom activities to embed learning and efficient/effective exam technique linked to:

• the role of UK Sport and National Institutes in developing sporting excellent/high performance sport
• strategies to address drop out at elite level

Timings: 9.30 – 10.45      Session One 10.45 – 11.00      Break 11.00 – 12.15      Session Two 12.15 – 12.30      Chat will remain open Tutor Profile – Wes Davis

• teaching and Learning Coordinator and Head of Sport at Worcester Sixth Form College
• >16 years’ experience teaching all components of OCR A-Level PE
• highly experienced A-level PE Examiner and Team Leader for a major awarding body
• recently shortlisted for the TES and Worcestershire Education Awards teacher of the year award
• experienced CPD provider.

Outline: This webinar 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 and evaluating challenging topic areas and explore the concept of interleaving and cognitive load to develop strong AO3 skills. It is suitable for teachers at all levels of experience. Course materials will be emailed before the event. Focus: Responding to the 2023 exam series • key takeaways from paper 2 • tips for outstanding exam technique Using innovative frameworks to compare topics: • Stages of learning • Practice types • Social facilitation and social inhibitation Creative approaches to explaining and evaluating: • Learning theories • Personality theories • Aggression theories • Craik and Lockhart's Levels of Processing Model • Reducing cognitive load with streamlined explanations Effective study strategies • Encouraging students to work independently Timings: 9.30 – 10.45      Session One 10.45 – 11.00      Stretch break /refresh / discussion 11.00 – 12.15      Session Two 12.15 – 12.30      Chat will remain open Tutor Profile – Wes Davis • teaching and Learning Coordinator and Head of Sport at Worcester Sixth Form College • >16 years’ experience teaching all components of OCR A-Level PE • highly experienced A-level PE Examiner and Team Leader for a major awarding body • recently shortlisted for the TES and Worcestershire Education Awards teacher of the year award • experienced CPD provider