Socio-cultural studies with Contemporary sporting issues Tuesday 1 March 9.30-12.30

Outline

In this webinar, teaching and learning strategies to promote engaging lesson delivery and long-term learning will be explored. It will include teaching, learning and assessment of specification content, and is suitable for socio-cultural teachers at all levels of experience.  Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

Sport and Society – Pre-industrial to the 21^st Century

• social-cultural factors that shaped the characteristics of and participation in sport

• tracking the socio-cultural factors through time
• using sporting case studies to bring the past alive

• 21st Century – globalisation of sport

• media coverage, freedom of movement and greater exposure

• Exam questions

• techniques for student success

Contemporary Sporting Issues

• Media and Commercialisation

• bringing this topic area to life – practical application
• memory retrieval and retention – workable and effective strategies

• Routes to Sporting Excellence

• using command words to understand the content
• developing skills in qualitative analysis

• The 10-mark synoptic question

• understanding – requirements, timings, focus
• achievable strategies for higher attainment for all of our students
• exploration of recent questions

Timings:

9.30 – 10.45          Session One

10.45 – 11.00          Stretch / refresh / discuss

11.00 – 12.15         Session Two

12.15 – 12.30          Chat will remain open

Tutor Profile – Alan Reed

Having taught all components of the OCR course for nearly 20 years, Alan is an extremely effective, successful and approachable teacher of A level PE. As Head of PE/Sport at Esher Sixth Form College, he is known for his active, engaging approach to teaching and learning which includes regular retrieval and recall opportunities. Alan has considerable examining experience.