Behind the screens: Live online training explained - video transcript
AQA CPD Live
Kate Bush - AQA Trainer
Ian Wheeler – AQA Trainer
Kate Bush: Welcome
to the online world. Our live online
training offers the benefits and interactivity of the classroom plus a little
bit more.
You still enjoy
real-time access to our trainers. People like me and Ian here, we’re teachers
and examiners ourselves, so we know the practicalities as well as the theory and
you still learn with other teachers, so you can share ideas with them.
And you can still
get teaching and learning materials which you can download and share.
And better still,
live online training is convenient. No more travelling to training venue and
the great thing is, you don’t need any special equipment. All you need is a
computer with speakers or a headset and access to the internet. So you can
learn wherever suits you, in your school, or in the comfort of your own home.
And we’ve
designed the online space so it’s simple and easy to use. Let’s give it a go in
practice.
Just like a face
to face course, the trainer delivers the training live at the scheduled time and
participants log in from wherever they are in the UK or from overseas.
Today we’ve got Adam in Chester, Steven from
Newcastle and Mary who joined from Hampshire plus quite a few other
participants.
There, you can
see their names in the attendee list, and you can see everyone’s details here
in the Introductions section.
Ian Wheeler: Good
afternoon, and welcome to today’s online training which will be for AQA English
Language specification B. Key questions we’re going to be looking at today are..
Kate Bush: So the delivery is a little different but the
content is just the same.
Ian Wheeler: Creating text coursework… So a question to start you off, how do you as
teachers of this subject try to get your students to be more familiar with the
process of working with un-seen data?
Kate Bush: The great benefit is that all participants
can contribute and share a wealth of ideas with each other just by typing in
their responses.
Ian Wheeler: I can see lots of excellent suggestions
there. Please do keep typing and sharing those ideas as I read through. Yes,
keeping language scrap books, that’s a very good idea. Analysing the speech of
the world around them, that’s very good as well.
Kate Bush: And the system even lets the trainer run quick
polls about the topic.
Ian Wheeler: okay, I’ve got the results of the poll coming
in now. I asked you the question ‘Do you think this candidate addresses salient
gender concepts?’ and I can see that you all think that they do which is of
course absolutely the correct answer. The second question was ‘How well do you
think they write about those concepts?’ the majority of you think they do it well.
I actually would argue they do it very well, and I can see that Mary is in
complete agreement with me which obviously means she has exquisite taste.
Kate Bush: Online training might be slightly different,
but participants’ feedback has been really positive. Teachers tell us they are
an effective and engaging way to learn. And online training helps us to deliver
our commitment to supporting AQA qualifications with continuing professional
development.
Our website shows
the full range of courses available, everything from accounting to Spanish. So
look online today and see how you can learn more about AQA qualifications and
develop your teaching skills.
Visit aqa.org.uk/cpd for further information