Socio-cultural Issues Sport and Society with Contemporary Sporting Issues Friday 6th June 9.30am – 3.30 pm

• a quality assured, power-packed day with a supremely experienced and knowledgeable presenter
  • increased knowledge and confidence – whether starting out or upskilling
  • stacks of powerful tips, tools, techniques and ideas to equip, motivate and inspire
  • links to exam questions and essential exam technique throughout

Session 1: 9.30-10.45 – Sport and Society:

• post 1850 industrial Britain
  o how to critically analyse the social and cultural changes using an innovative sentence development framework.
  o a focus on the very toughest exam questions!
• influence of the public schools – the use of images and a step-by-step approach to understanding the spread and export of sport
• 20th century Britain – spaced retrieval from pre-industrial and post 1850 industrial Britain to optimise cognitive load

10:45-11.00 – Break

Session 2: 11.00-12.15 – Contemporary Sporting Issues:

• cracking commercialism and elite sport
  o developing a flexible knowledge framework that can allow access to multiple areas of the contemporary issues specification
  o tackling the toughest commercialism questions
• media
  o understanding changes in coverage since the 1980’s
  o a streamlined approach to evaluating the impact of media on individual sports and performers

12.15-1.00 – Lunch:

Session 3: 1.00-1.45 – Contemporary Sporting Issues

• Routes to excellence – making it memorable and accessible!
• Ethics and Deviance in sport: from drugs, violence, gambling

o model answers, modern examples and innovative memorisation strategies

1:45-1.50 – Stretch / Screen Break

Session 4: 1.50-2.35 – Sport and society

• The Modern Olympic Games

o political exploitation – elaborative interrogation to ensure accurate descriptions

• Hosting global sporting events – essential exam technique for positive and negative impacts

2.35-2:40 – Stretch / Screen Break

Session 5: 2:40-3.15 – Exam focus and the Synoptic Question

• Preparing students for the exam
• Common socio-cultural errors and how to avoid them
• Understanding the synoptic question and how to teach it

3.15-3.30 – chat will remain open

Tutor Profile – Wes Davis

• teaching and Learning Coordinator and Head of Sport at Worcester Sixth FormCollege (ALPS 2 for A level PE)
• > 17 years’ experience teaching all components of the OCR A-Level
• consistently excellent student examination results
• passionate about applying evidence informed teaching and learning into A level PE
• highly experienced A-level PE Examiner and team leader for a major awarding body
• Finalist for recent TES Teacher of The Year award