Case study
Institution: The Weald School
The Weald is a co-educational and mixed comprehensive school in
West Sussex for students aged 11 to 18.
The students featured in the lesson are a top set Year 10 GCSE
group. They started Spanish in Year 8 with only three lessons a
fortnight and went on studying it in Year 9 for four lessons a
fortnight. Now in Year 10 they have five lessons a fortnight ,
rising to six lessons a fortnight in Year 11.
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Associated video clips
GCSE Spanish
Lesson
Teacher: Brigitte
Holt
The video clip below shows Brigitte working with a
Year 10 GCSE Spanish course familiarising them for the first time
with the assessment criteria for the oral examination.
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The interviews
In these interviews, the teachers explain how the students are
prepared for the GCSE examination and how ICT can be used as a tool
for differentiation in GCSE.
How do you make use of ICT in your
teaching of GCSE and how does this help to
differentiate?
Listen to the teachers explain how the students
prepared for the lesson and how ICT is used (e-mail and the VLE) to
motivate GCSE students and provide differentiated materials.
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What strategies do you use to
maximise the potential of each individual
pupil?
Listen to the teachers explaining how they help
individual pupils to achieve their full potential in GCSE and how
data can be used to motivate the students to aim at their target
grade.
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