Skill Acquisition with Sports Psychology Wednesday 22 June – 9.30-3.30

Evaluation and Analysis of Performance for Improvement (EAPI) - focusing on September 2021 changes to this part of the Non-examined assessment (NEA) Thursday 18 November  9.30-12.30 Outline: This event will explore the EAPI – notably the recent changes and what they mean for your delivery and student attainment.  Pete will unpick current issues and explore best practice along with a range of teaching strategies. There will be ample opportunity to raise questions – with a guarantee of straightforward, helpful and accurate answers! The sessions will include:

• identification of Sept '21 EAPI changes - and how to apply them
• common challenges – with workable solutions suggested
• discussion and Q&A
• comprehensive course materials

Timings: 9.30 - 10.45       Session 1 10.45 - 11.00      Stretch / refresh / discuss 11.00 - 12.15      Session 2 12.15 - 12.30      Chat will remain open   Pete Bignell Pete is currently Director of Sport and Physical Education at Abingdon School. He is a highly experienced teacher of OCR A-level Physical Education, and having moderated the coursework element for over 15 years, became Principal Moderator in 2016. He enjoys all sports and plays as much golf as he can!

Teaching and learning in A level PE Tuesday 23 November 1.30-4.30 Outline: This interactive session will focus on how to implement evidence informed teaching and learning strategies to enhance outcomes. With research into cognitive science being more accessible than ever, the ability to practically apply these findings into our A level PE lessons is a must for all teachers looking to maximise their students’ performance. With examples from all components, Session one will focus on strategies to promote active learning and how to hook and encode information into the long-term memory. Session two’s focus will be on ‘how to remember anything forever’ - using spaced repetition. Spaced repetition flash card apps to combat the forgetting curve (Ebbinghaus 1885) will be explored and shared. This outstanding use of technology has the potential to really transform learning! Focus:

• Strategies to maximise active learning and engagement across all three components:
  • Interactive note taking - brilliant for flipped learning tasks!
  • Innovative memorisation strategies - to make tricky topics, sticky!
  • Take away retrieval practice activities - to promote spacing and interleaving
  • Co-operative learning strategies - to create a buzz in your classroom

• Spaced repetition – the game changer!
  • Once information has been ‘learned’, how do we keep it there…. forever?
  • How do we stop forgetting?
  • Interrupting the forgetting curve using a spaced repetition flash card app

• Access to video tutorials and ready-made flash card decks for all three theory componentsTeaching and learning in A level PE Tuesday 23 November 1.30-4.30

Timings: 1.30 - 2.45    Session One 2.45 - 3.00    Stretch break /refresh / discussion 3.00 - 4.15    Session Two 4.15 - 4.30    Chat will remain open

• Wes Davis is Teaching and Learning Coordinator and Head of Sport at Worcester Sixth Form College. He is a highly experienced A level PE examiner with >15 years’ experience teaching all areas of the specification. He has a particular passion for the psychological component, revision strategies and the study of memory. In 2019, 22 of Wes’ 40 students achieved A*. He was recently shortlisted for the TES teacher of the year award.