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Successful GCSE Citizenship Teaching

Join us in Birmingham for an in-person, immersive workshop designed to build your knowledge and skills for teaching GCSE Citizenship Studies.

Early bird offer: book by 14 February and receive 25% off!

About this event

Join us in Birmingham for an in-person, immersive workshop designed to build your knowledge and skills for teaching GCSE Citizenship Studies.

Led by Kelly Allchin and Zoe Baker—both experienced educators with extensive subject expertise and exam marking experience—this day-long event will provide:

  • Practical strategies for delivering core content across GCSE specifications.
  • A focus on the Active Citizenship project, with actionable tips for success.
  • Insights into planning a GCSE Citizenship curriculum that is engaging, relevant, and adaptable to your school’s needs.
  • Guidance on integrating key resources, such as case studies, current events, and local issues, to bring your lessons to life.

 

Kelly Allchin delivers Successful Citizenship Teaching: Level 1

The session is suitable for teachers working with all examination boards. While the core approaches will apply universally, there will be opportunities throughout the day to explore board-specific styles and requirements.
Whether you’re new to teaching GCSE Citizenship or looking to refine your practice, this workshop will equip you with tools and inspiration to create impactful lessons.

Who is it for?

This workshop is ideal for:

  • Teachers looking to enhance their delivery of GCSE Citizenship Studies.
  • Educators seeking to deepen their understanding of the Active Citizenship element of the specification.

Why attend?

By attending this session, you will:

  • Build confidence in teaching GCSE Citizenship Studies.
  • Network with fellow Citizenship educators and share best practices.
  • Gain fresh ideas and strategies to use in your classroom immediately.
  • Strengthen your pedagogical understanding of Citizenship education.
  • Leave with resources and techniques that can transform your lessons the very next day.

By attending this 1 day workshop you will be able to demonstrate the following areas of the ITTECF: 

Standard 2

Students learn that: 

  • Requiring pupils to retrieve information from memory, and spacing practice so that pupils revisit ideas after a gap are also likely to strengthen recall. 
  • Worked examples that take pupils through each step of a new process are also likely to support pupils to learn.

Students learn how: 

  • Planning regular review and practice of key ideas and concepts over time (e.g. through carefully planned use of structured talk activities)
  • Designing practice, generation and retrieval tasks that provide just enough support so that pupils experience a high success rate when attempting challenging work.
  • Increasing challenge with practice and retrieval as knowledge becomes more secure (e.g. by removing scaffolding, lengthening spacing or introducing interacting elements).

Standard 3: 

Learn that: 

  • Ensuring pupils master foundational concepts and knowledge before moving on is likely to build pupils’ confidence and help them succeed
  • In order for pupils to think critically, they must have a secure understanding of knowledge within the subject area they are being asked to think critically about.

Learn how to: 

  • Deliver a carefully sequenced and coherent curriculum, by: a) Identifying essential concepts, knowledge, skills and principles of the subject and providing opportunity for all pupils to learn and master these critical components. b) Ensuring pupils’ thinking is focused on key ideas within the subject. c) Working with experienced colleagues to accumulate and refine a collection of powerful analogies, illustrations, examples, explanations and demonstrations
  • Support pupils to build increasingly complex mental models, by: f) Discussing and analysing with expert colleagues the rationale for curriculum choices, the process for arriving at current curriculum choices and how the school’s curriculum materials inform lesson preparation. g) Balancing exposition, repetition, practice of critical skills and knowledge. h) Revisiting the big ideas of the subject over time and teaching key concepts through a range of examples.
  • Help pupils apply knowledge and skills to other contexts, by: l) Ensuring pupils have relevant domain-specific knowledge, especially when being asked to think critically within a subject. m) Interleaving concrete and abstract examples, slowly withdrawing concrete examples and drawing attention to the underlying structure of problems.

The venue

The event will take place from 10am – 5pm on Thursday 13 March 2025 in Birmingham:

Signing Tree Venue
Deaf Cultural Centre
Ladywood Road
Birmingham
B16 8SZ

Refreshments and lunch will be provided on the day. Please inform us of any allergies or dietary requirements when registering your place.

 

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Event team

Meet the team who will be running this event

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Zoe Baker

Head of Education and Professional Development

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Kelly Allchin

ACT Consultant Advisory Teacher

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.