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Outline: This webinar is suitable for all teachers of the physiological component. Throughout, Karen will offer great teaching ideas, spotlight exam requirements and recap crucial ‘game changing’ exam technique including key tips for synoptic success. Course materials will be emailed before the event. Anatomy & Physiology Muscular system

• joints movement and muscles- tips and tricks to aid learning
• muscle contraction during exercise: Muscle fibre types and how to maximise marks

Cardio-Vascular System- with a focus on the CV system during exercise:

• effect of exercise on heart rate, stroke volume and cardiac output
• regulation of heart rate

Exercise Physiology Training methods, methods of evaluating fitness and physiological adaptations with a focus on aerobic training

• methods of evaluating aerobic capacity, training to develop aerobic capacity, physiological adaptations from aerobic training
• clarity on exactly what to teach

Synoptic:

• how to structure the 20 mark question
• accessing top marks

Timings: 1.00 – 2.15      Session One 2.15 – 2.30      Break 2.30 – 3.45      Session Two 3.45 – 4.00      Chat will remain open Tutor Profile - Karen Foan

• associate Principal at Saint Francis Xavier SFC, London; previously Assistant Principal and Head of Sport and PE - Woking College, Surrey
• has taught A-Level PE for >20 years and is passionate about student led learning and personalisation
• highly experienced A-level PE Senior Examiner
• highly experienced teacher of all components of OCR A-Level PE
• a keen (and slowly improving) golfer!

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: 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 for memorising and evaluating challenging topic areas and explore the concept of interleaving and cognitive load to develop strong AO3 skills. It is suitable for teachers at all levels of experience. Course materials will be emailed before the event. Focus: Responding to the 2023 exam series • key takeaways from paper 2 • tips for outstanding exam technique Using innovative frameworks to compare topics: • Stages of learning • Practice types • Social facilitation and social inhibitation Creative approaches to explaining and evaluating: • Learning theories • Personality theories • Aggression theories • Craik and Lockhart's Levels of Processing Model • Reducing cognitive load with streamlined explanations Effective study strategies • Encouraging students to work independently Timings: 9.30 – 10.45      Session One 10.45 – 11.00      Stretch break /refresh / discussion 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 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.

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! Course materials will be emailed before the event. Focus: Cracking biomechanics

• building student confidence though the teaching of Newton’s Laws, calculations for linear motion and factors affecting air resistance/friction
• applying centre of mass
• making biomechanics accessible and fun!

Teaching

• angular motion
• projectile motion

Preparing students for the exam

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

Timings: 1.00 – 2.15       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 – Emma Stephens

• director of Teaching and Quality at The 6th Form College Farnborough (an Ofsted outstanding college)
• an expert in her field whose students consistently attain excellent examination results
• having taught all components of the OCR course for many years she has a wealth of knowledge and ideas to share
• highly experienced A-Level PE Senior Examiner (theory) and Practical Moderator (coursework), as well as a practised INSET tutor
• author of the PEfocus (OCR endorsed) ‘Sports Psychology’ Teacher Resource File
• a keen netballer and traveller