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Outline:

This webinar will offer powerful tips, tools, techniques and ideas to bring biomechanics to life and make it accessible and enjoyable for all teachers and students! There will be a specific focus on how to achieve the most accessible marks on the paper. Course materials will be emailed before the event..

Focus:

Debunk the difficulty of biomechanics

• building student confidence though the teaching of Newton’s Laws
• applying centre of mass to the stability of a performer
• Free body diagrams
• Bernoulli and Magnus (air flow diagrams)
• Projectiles

Preparing students for the exam

• revision strategies
• hints and tips for top performance on the day

Timings:

1.00 – 1.15     Session One 2.15 – 2.30    Stretch break /refresh / discussion 2.30 – 3.45    Session Two 3.45 – 4.00   Chat will remain open

Tutor Profile – Richard McDonald

• Head of A-Level Physical Education at Aquinas 6th Form College
• Senior Tutor with a focus on academic attainment
• An expert in his field whose students consistently attain excellent examination results (ALPS grade 2 with 80% high grades in 23/34)
• Teaching all components of the OCR course
• Experienced examiner and body systems unit 1 team leader for a major awarding body Previously a practical moderator for major examination board

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 on how to explain the challenging areas of the specification. Complex topics will be broken down into small, concise steps with regular opportunities for rehearsal and checks for understanding. Optimising cognitive load, overcoming passivity of students and mass participation in questioning will feature throughout the course. It is suitable for teachers at all levels of experience. Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Focus:

Responding to the 2024 exam series: 

• key takeaways from paper 2
• tips for outstanding exam technique

Quick wins in Skill Acquisition:

• Types and uses of feedback
• Types and methods of practice
• Learning theories

Outstanding explanation techniques for theories and models of Psychological Factors A progressive chaining explanation approach to allow students to memorise as they go, check and apply:

• Interactionist theories of aggression
• Vealey’s model of sports confidence
• Craik and Lockhart’s Levels of Processing Model
• Chelladurai’s multi-dimensional model of sports leadership
• Reducing cognitive load with streamlined explanations

Effective study strategies 

• encouraging students to work independently

Timings:

9.15 - 10.30     Session One 10.30 - 10.45  Break 10.45 - 12.00   Session Two 12.00 - 12.15    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:  Alongside analysing common mistakes made on paper 1, Tim will provide detailed examples of how and why the highest performing students excelled. Teaching and learning strategies will be provided to address both exam skills and subject knowledge to maximise future success. There will be ample opportunity to raise questions – with a guarantee of straightforward, supportive and reliable answers. Focus:

• why did students drop marks?

➢kreb’s cycle and the recovery process ➢mechanics of breathing and role of additional muscles ➢magnus effect and spin created on a projectile. ➢evaluation of types of levers. ➢speed and Velocity calculations

• the synoptic question – updated requirements for 2023 and beyond.

➢stimulus identification – accuracy and focus ➢equations, workings, units and decimal places ➢making your examples specific to the question

• discussion and Q&A

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:

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 2024 exam series:

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

Emergence and evolution of modern sport

• focus on 20th and 21st century Britain
• revisiting and applying social and cultural factors across the time periods

Globalisation and global events

• freedom of movement
• exploring the background of the Olympic games
• hosting of global events

Commercialisation of female sport

• applying a framework for analysing the growth of female sport
• creating question scenarios for novel responses

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:

9.15 – 10.30     Session One 10.30 – 10.45  Break 10.45 – 12.00  Session Two 12.00 – 12.15   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 is suitable for all teachers of the physiological component. Throughout, Alice will offer great teaching ideas, spotlight exam requirements and recap crucial exam technique including key tips for explaining tricky topics in amemorable way Course materials will be emailed before the event.

Applied Anatomy & Physiology

Muscular system

• joints, movement and muscles- tips and tricks to aid learning and recall
• types of contraction - getting students’ heads around it!

Energy systems

• where to start and how to reduce information overload

EPOC

• teaching to the top on a difficult topic - extending and challenging all students

Control centres

• key similarities and differences

Exercise Physiology

Ergogenic aids with a focus on nutritional aids

• giving them the information but doing something with it - focus on application skills
• comparing ergogenic aids - how to structure exam answers

Preparation and training

• training methods - FITT principle
• methods of evaluating components of fitness

 

Timings:

9.15 – 10.30    Session One 10.30 – 10.45  Break 10.45 – 12.00  Session Two 12.00 – 12.15   Chat will remain open

Tutor Profile – Alice Allen

• PE Teacher and Advanced Practitioner in Mastery (previously Curriculum Manager for PE) at The Sixth Form College Farnborough
• 6 years' experience teaching all components of OCR A Level PE
• Experienced deliverer of staff INSET.