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On-demand CPD: Teaching GCSE Citizenship Studies for the first time

Join us for this pre-recorded session focusing on the fundamentals of excellent GCSE Citizenship Studies Teaching.

About this event

As term begins, join us for this pre-recorded workshop focusing on the fundamentals of excellent GCSE Citizenship Studies Teaching. We will explore pedagogy knowledge and skills in a friendly and supportive session, ensuring you leave feeling confident to support your students in the coming year.

Kelly Allchin, experienced Citizenship teacher and Assistant Principal for Personal Development in a large inner city school, leads this session with Zoe Baker,  ACT’s Head of Education and Professional Development. Both Kelly and Zoe have extensive experience of teaching GCSE Citizenship students and will be able to answer your questions and offer practical advice that can be used in the classroom the next day.

This workshop is not matched to any specific examination body, so no matter which specification your school follows you will find this workshop useful. In this 90 min session, you will look at question papers, explore the importance of both Citizenship knowledge and Citizenship concepts in your teaching, and learn what good pedagogy looks like in a GCSE Citizenship classroom.

Who is it for?

This workshop is designed for any teacher who is new to teaching GCSE Citizenship studies. Whether you are still in your early years of teaching or training, or if you have recently begun teaching Citizenship as an additional subject, you will find this workshop useful.

Why register?

By the end of this workshop you will: 

  • Have a greater understanding of the expectations of the GCSE 
  • Understand the importance of knowledge and concepts in your teaching 
  • Leave with examples of pedagogy you can use in your lessons from the next day

How do I access the session?

After registering, the video and supporting materials will be available to access in the Booked Events area in your Membership Dashboard from 9 September 2024.

Useful information

This workshop will support the ITTECF Standard 3 by developing participants knowledge regarding: 

  • A school’s curriculum, enabling it to set out its vision for the knowledge, skills and values that its pupils will learn
  • Encompassing the national curriculum within a coherent wider vision for successful learning
  • Securing subject knowledge which helps teachers to motivate pupils and teach effectively, ensuring pupils master foundational concepts and knowledge before moving on is likely to build pupils’ confidence and help them succeed
  • Pupils’ oral language skills, which can be supported by teaching new words and how to use and understand words within sentences or longer texts. This can help to address speech and language difficulties, especially for children in their early school years.

Learn how to:

  • deliver a carefully sequenced and coherent curriculum
  • support pupils to build increasingly complex mental models.

This workshop will support the ITTECF Standard 4 by learning that:

  • Effective teaching can transform pupils’ knowledge, capabilities and beliefs about learning. New material should be delivered in steps, explicitly linking new ideas to what has been previously studied and learned
  • Modelling helps pupils understand new processes and ideas; good models make abstract ideas concrete and accessible
  • Guides, scaffolds and worked examples can help pupils apply new ideas, but should be gradually removed as pupil expertise increases.

Learn how to:

  • Plan effective lessons
  • Make good use of expositions
  • Model effectively
  • Stimulate pupil thinking and check for understanding.

Event team

Meet the team who will be running this event

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Kelly Allchin

Assistant Principal, Leeds City Academy

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Zoe Baker

Head of Education and Professional Development (ACT)

FAQs

These are some of the questions we are most often asked about our training sessions. If you have other questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and we will be happy to help.