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Title AQA Active Teaching Ideas for Year 1 (AS) Psychology with Deb Gajic Do you want to teach active and engaging Year 1 Psychology lessons?
Date September 13th at 5:00pm - 6:00pm September 13th at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Content This webinar will focus on AS -Components 1 and 2 (Year 1) of the AQA
NEW specification.The focus will beon teaching. You will begiven
innovativeand activeideas for deliveringthese components to students
effectively. Strategies for making the content accessibleto lower ability
students and stretch and challengefor the more ablewill bediscussed.
We will also look briefly atthe new assessmentrequirements and how
to ensure students can access top grades. Upgrade your lessons from
‘good’ to ‘outstanding’!
There will be an opportunity for sharinggood practiceand discussion.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to provide you with innovative
ideas for deliveringactiveand engaging Year 1 Psychology lessons.You
will beprovided with strategies to make the content accessible for lower
ability students, as well as stretch and challenge strategies to help your
students access top grades. Finally,there will bean opportunity for
discussion and questions & answers.
AQA Component 3 – The Compulsory Topic: – Issues and Debates in
Psychology with Deb Gajic
Do you know how to embed issues and debates into your everyday
Psychology lessons?
September 15th at 5:00pm - 6:00pm September 15th at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
This webinar will focus on issues and debates in psychology.Specifically:
Gender and culture: Alpha and beta bias, ethnocentrism and
cultural relativism
Free will & determinism
Nature-nurture
Reductionism& Holism
Idiographic and nomothetic approaches
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to provide you with strategies
to embed the issues and debates into your everyday Psychology lessons.
Amongst the issues and debates we’ll consider are:
- free will & determinism
- idiographic and nomothetic approaches
- ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
2. Ethics and Socially sensitiveresearch
The focus will be on teaching.You will begiven innovativeand active
ideas for deliveringthese components to students effectively. We will
discusshowto make the learning‘stick’and enable students to make
synoptic links to other topics.Strategies for makingthe content
accessibleto lower ability students and stretch and challengefor the
more ablewill also bediscussed.Wewill also look atthe assessment
requirements of this topic and how to ensure students can access top
grades. Upgrade your lessons from‘good’ to ‘outstanding’!
There will be an opportunity for sharinggood practiceand discussion.
- reductionism & holism
In addition,we will also examinethe assessment requirements for issues
and debates and provide an opportunity for discussion and questions &
answers.
AQA: Feedback from the AS exams with Cara Flanagan What can we learn from the AS Psychology (AQA) Year 1 exams?
September 21stat 4:30pm - 5:30pm September 21stat 4:30pm - 5:30pm
We finally havesome real information aboutthe new AS standards.This
coursewill look atthe markingfrom the summer exams and consider
the ‘lessons to be learned’ with reference to issues raised in the Report
on the Exam. Implicationsfor Alevel will bediscussed.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to examine the marking of the
Year 1 AS summer exams and consider what lessons can be learned,
with reference to the issues raised in the Examiner’s Report. In addition,
implications for the Year 2 A-Level will also be discussed, with an
opportunity for questions & answers.
AQA Component 3 – Options:- Relationships with Deb Gajic How to make your students fall in lovewith relationships(the AQA Paper
3 topic,that is...)
September 22nd at 5:00pm - 6:00pm September 22nd at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
This webinar will focus on the topic of relationships. Specifically:
Evolutionary explanationsfor partner preferences: sexual selection
and human reproductivebehaviour
Attraction: self-disclosure,physical attractiveness (matching
hypothesis),filter theory, social demography,similarities in attitude
and complementarity
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to provide you with a selection
of ideas for deliveringactiveand engaging Year 2 Relationships lessons.
You will beprovided with lesson ideas/strategies to bringthis topic alive,
as well as differentiated content to make the content accessible for
lower ability students, as well as stretch and challenge strategies to help
your students access the top grades. Finally,there will bean opportunity
3. Theories of romantic relationships:Social exchangetheory, equity
theory, Rusbult’s investment model of commitment, satisfaction,
comparison with alternatives and investment. Duck’s phase model
of relationship breakdown:intra-psychic,dyadic,social and grave
dressing.
Virtual relationshipsin social media;self-disclosureand absenceof
gating
Parasocial relationships:levels of parasocial relationships,
absorption addiction model and attachment theory
The focus will be on teaching.You will begiven innovativeand active
ideas for deliveringthis topic to students effectively. We will discuss
how to make the learning‘stick’and strategies for making the content
accessibleto lower ability students and stretch and challengefor the
more ablewill also bediscussed.Wewill also look atthe assessment
requirements of this topic and how to ensure students can access top
grades. Upgrade your lessons from‘good’ to ‘outstanding’!
There will be an opportunity for sharinggood practiceand discussion.
for discussion and questions & answers.
Teaching Edexcel Psychology for the firsttime with Ali Abbas Are you new to A- Level Psychology (Edexcel) this September?
September 26th at 4.30-5.30pm September 26th at 4.30-5.30pm
This webinar is aimed towards those teachingEdexcel for the firsttime
from September 2016. It will addresslessonslearned fromthe firstyear
of the new specification and go through key issues to ensure a
successful delivery of the AS / A level.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to provide an overview of the
new A-Level Edexcel specification,for thoseteaching this specification
from September 2016. We will examine what lessons can be learned
from the first year of the new specification and go through key issues
encountered to ensure you areready for this year. There will also bean
opportunity for discussion and questions & answers.
Teaching Edexcel Paper 2 Clinical Psychology and theApplications with
Ali Abbas
Do you know how this year’s Edexcel Paper 2 has changed & how itwill
affect your teaching
4. September 27th at 4:30pm - 5:30pm September 27th at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
This webinar is aimed towards those teachingthe compulsory Clinical
Psychology section and the three options (Child Criminological and
Health). It will address themain changes and understandingthe
structure of Year 2 for the new specification alongwith bestapproaches
to teach the content in paper 2.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to examine the compulsory
Clinical Psychology section and the three optional topics (child,
criminology and health). We will also examinethe main changes in terms
of the Year 2 structure and provide some practical ideas for teaching&
learningin year 2. There will also bean opportunity for discussion and
questions & answers.
AQA: An overview of Year 2 with Cara Flanagan What do you really need to know when planningYear 2 Psychology &
have you REALLY chosen the best Paper 3 options
September 28th at 4:30pm - 5:30pm September 28th at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
A review of the compulsory topics for A level (issues and debates,
research methods and biopsychology) and a review of the options
topics.We will consider howmuch you actually need to cover to help
make the content more manageable. Other topics will includethe
revision,the A level standard and the implications of the fact that this is
no longer an essay-focused exam.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to review the compulsory A-
Level topics, including issues & debates, research methods and
biopsychology, to ensure that you have fully covered the specification.In
addition,you will be provided with hints & tips on which optional topics
to selectto make the content more manageable. Furthermore, you will
consider the implicationsof the new A-Level exam and the removal of 24-
mark essays!Finally,therewill be an opportunity for questions &
answers.
Feedback on the firstset of Edexcel AS exams 2016 with Ali Abba What can we learn from the AS Psychology (Edexcel) Year 1 exams?
October 3rd at 4:30pm - 5:30pm October 3rd at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
This webinar will address lessonslearned fromthe firstyear of the new
specification and go through the key themes highlighted in the
examiners reports and mark schemes to ensure a successful delivery of
the AS / A level.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to examine the marking of the
Year 1 AS summer exams and consider whatlessons can be learned,with
reference to the issues raised in the Examiner’s Report. In addition,
implications for the Year 2 A-Level will also bediscussed,with an
opportunity for questions & answers.
5. Running a Successful Psychology Department with Deb Gajic Do you want to run an ‘outstanding’ Psychology department?
October 4th at5:00pm - 6:00pm October 4th at5:00pm - 6:00pm
This webinar is for current subjectleaders who wish to improve
standards or aspiringleaders.The focus will beon improvingteaching
and learningwithin a psychology department in order to achieve
outstandingprogress and results.We will look atself-evaluation and
how to use data effectively. We will discuss howto tackleissues and
problems and us performance management as an effective tool. We will
also briefly look atthe new OFSTED requirements.
There will be an opportunity for sharinggood practiceand discussion.
Are you a Subject Leader or Head of Department, with the ambition of
runningan outstandingPsychology department? Then this webinar is for
you. This FREE 45-minute webinar will focus on improvingteaching &
learningwithin a Psychology department to help you achieve
outstanding progress and results. Duringthis webinar we will consider
assessmentfor learningand how to use data effectively, whilealso
consideringtools for self-evaluation.Finally,we will examine the new
OFSTED requirements, whileprovidingan opportunity for questions and
answers.
AQA Component 3 – Options:– Schizophrenia with Deb Gajic Are you teaching schizophrenia (AQAPaper 3) for the firsttime?
October 6th at5-6pm October 6th at5-6pm
This webinar will focus on the topic of schizophrenia.Specifically: –
1. Classification of schizophrenia:positiveand negativesymptoms,
reliability and validity in diagnosis,co-morbidity,cultureand gender
bias and symptom overlap
2. Biological explanationsfor schizophrenia;genetics,dopamine
hypothesis and neural correlates
3. Psychological explanations:family dysfunction and cognitive
explanations
4. Drug therapy: typical and atypical antipsychotics
5. CBT and family therapy, token economies
6. Interactionistapproach:diathesis-stressmodel
The focus will be on teaching.You will begiven innovativeand active
ideas for deliveringthis topic to students effectively. We will discuss
how to make the learning‘stick’and strategies for making the content
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to provide you with a selection
of ideas for deliveringactiveand engaging Year 2 Schizophrenia lessons.
You will beprovided with lessons ideas/strategies to bringthis topic alive,
as well as differentiated content to make the content accessible for
lower ability students, as well as stretch and challenge strategies to help
your students access the top grades. Finally,there will bean opportunity
for discussion and questions & answers.
6. accessibleto lower ability students and stretch and challengefor the
more ablewill also bediscussed.Wewill also look atthe assessment
requirements of this topic and how to ensure students can access top
grades. Upgrade your lessons from‘good’ to ‘outstanding’!
There will be an opportunity for sharinggood practiceand discussion.
The New Maths Requirements in Psychology with Deb Gajic Do you know to make your Maths teaching‘add up’ in Psychology?
October 11th at 5:00pm - 6:00pm October 11th at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Within the new 2015 A level Psychology specifications10%of the marks
availablewill befor assessmentof mathematics (in the context of
psychology) ata Level 2 standard or higher. Lower level mathematics
may still beassessed,butwill notcount towards the 10%. This new
requirement is a concern for many teachers; either because they are
worried about how to supportlower level students or not confident
about their own subject knowledge in this area.This workshop aims to
demystify maths, change negative mindsets and providepractical and
fun ways to teach this in the context of Psychology.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to provide you with
strategies/ideas for embedding Maths teaching into your everyday
psychology lessons.In the new A-Level Psychology specification
approximately 10%of the marks are available for assessment of
mathematics skills,which is a concern for many teachers and students.
The purpose of this webinar is to make you feel more confident in your
delivery of the Maths content and ensure your students don’t loseeasy
marks in their real exams.
AQA Component 3 – Options:– Forensic Psychology with Deb Gajic Creating ‘lawand order’ in your psychology classroom:practical ideasfor
teaching forensic
October 13th at 5-6pm October 13th at 5-6pm
This webinar will focus on the topic of forensic psychology.Specifically:
Problems in definingcrime: Ways of measuringcrime, official
statistics,victimsurveys and offender surveys
Offender profiling:top-down, bottom-up, investigativepsychology
and geographical profiling
Biological explanations:atavisticform,genetics and neural
explanations
Psychological explanations:Eysenck’s theory of the criminal
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to provide you with a selection
of ideas for deliveringactiveand engaging Year 2 Forensic lessons.You
will beprovided with lessons ideas/strategies to bringthis topic alive, as
well as differentiated content to make the content accessible for lower
ability students, as well as stretch and challenge strategies to help your
students access the top grades. Finally,therewill be an opportunity for
discussion and questions & answers.
7. personality,cognitiveexplanations(moral reasoning,attribution),
differential association and psychodynamic explanations
Dealingwith offender behaviour:Aims of custodial sentencingand
its effects. Recidivism.Behaviour modification,anger management
and restorative justiceprogrammes
The focus will be on teaching.You will begiven innovativeand active
ideas for deliveringthis topic to students effectively. We will discuss
how to make the learning‘stick’and strategies for making the content
accessibleto lower ability students and stretch and challengefor the
more ablewill also bediscussed.Wewill also look atthe assessment
requirements of this topic and how to ensure students can access top
grades. Upgrade your lessons from‘good’ to ‘outstanding’!
There will be an opportunity for sharinggood practiceand discussion
AQA Psychology:Understanding AQA markingwith Cara Flanagan Do you understand how to examine usingAQA’s ‘holistic’marking?
November 2nd at 4:30pm - 5:30pm November 2nd at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
The session focuses on markingAS and A level essays as well as marking
research methods and application questions,usingexamquestions
from the summer exam. This session is aimed atthose who are new to
AQA marking.
The aimof this FREE 45-minute webinar is to examine holistic markingof
AS and A-Level essays, as well as the marking of research methods and
application questions, using samplequestions and exam questions from
this year’s summer exam. The session is aimed at all those who are new
to AQA marking and will providean opportunity for discussion and
questions and answers.