Socio-cultural studies with Contemporary sporting issues With Wes Davis – Thursday 25th January – 9.30am – 12.30pm

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.