Professional Development Programme
A range of courses to support your teaching journey with us
WHY ATTEND A COURSE?
Build confidence
"I feel very confident on both ensuring marking/moderating accurately and also using this to teach students effectively."
Gain a greater understanding
"The best aspect of this event was being able to get to grips with the marking criteria and understanding the language of it."
Considering switching or new to Cambridge OCR?
Choosing OCR
Considering switching to us? Your support journey starts here. In these recordings, you'll find everything you need to know about our qualifications, including an overview of the specification and the support and guidance you'll receive from us.
Starting to teach
Why attend? Made the decision to start teaching with us? Familiarise yourself with our specification and assessment. You'll also find out about the range of resources and support available.
Already teaching with Cambridge OCR
Exploring the exam
Why attend? As the paid-for, follow up course to our free 'Exam Review' events, these sessions offer you a platform to deepen your understanding of assessment expectations, marking criteria, candidate work and outcomes, learning from past-series’ examinations. You'll also explore ideas to enhance teaching and learning for future preparation and delivery.
Exploring the NEA
Why attend? These events focus on practice and application: providing you with opportunities to work through past-series’ materials, including candidate exemplars. They're designed to support you in understanding how and why a range of exemplars secured the marks they did, empowering you to apply this knowledge to your own teaching and delivery.
Exam review
Why attend? Our free review events are designed to support with understanding exam outcomes and performance, whilst also preparing you for future series. These events will help you to reflect upon and review your centre’s performance in order to better inform and plan for improvements.
Enhancing your teaching
Why attend? These events focus on a range of subject and assessment-specific themes, all designed to build your knowledge and generate new ideas. Sessions could cover anything from Assessment Objectives and securing top band marks, to skills and knowledge enhancement.
Ask the Subject Advisor
Why attend? These sessions provide a platform for you to ask our internal experts the questions that matter most to you. They complement our subject-specific networking events, which are intended to provide a space for you to build your subject communities.
Ask the Moderator
Why attend? These sessions provide a platform for you to ask our moderation experts the questions that matter most to you. They provide an additional space for you to build confidence in successfully delivering internally assessed NEA components.
Online courses
Why attend? Direct your own time with our on-demand, online learning modules designed to fit around you. Courses are designed to build knowledge and confidence on internally and externally assessed components. Each module is interactive, providing feedback on activities that allow you to get to grips with mark schemes and their application.
Support for new qualifications - Cambridge Advanced Nationals
Preparing for the Exam
Why attend? These courses equip you with the knowledge and understanding to optimise your delivery of exam units. You'll explore ways to prepare students to break down and respond to questions, and our expert trainers will support you in navigating the marking criteria, enabling you to better support your students.
Preparing for the NEA
Why attend? These courses equip you with the knowledge and understanding to optimise NEA delivery, supporting you to get the most out of your students’ performance. Building on the content in our online training courses, this event will explore how you can support students to develop the skills required for successful NEA work; offer guidance on how to establish effective internal marking and moderation processes and discuss what other resources are available to you as you prepare for your first NEA series.
Baseline Assessments from Cambridge Insight
Upcoming events from Cambridge Insight
Cambridge Insight offers baseline assessments which enable you to quickly identify and address any strengths and weaknesses. You’ll also be able to use the assessment to monitor students’ progress, create personalised learning programmes and identify your more able students.
Upcoming events include:
Baseline assessments – want to find out more about Cambridge Insight's assessments and how they can support your school to unlock student potential? Join their free upcoming webinars and hear from fellow teachers and Cambridge Insight experts.
The Cambridge Wellbeing check – a new student-led assessment developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. An online assessment that takes around 20 minutes, the check is designed to promote positive student wellbeing and provide schools with a clear understanding of how your students feel, and where they need support. Interested? Register for Cambridge Insight's free webinar and find out more.
In-house training from Cambridge OCR
In-house training
Our in-house training allows you and your colleagues to have one of our courses delivered at a time that suits you, such as inset days or after-school, either online or at your school or college.
You can find full details and prices, as well as sending us an enquiry, on Teach Cambridge. If you can't find what you're looking for, get in touch with our professional development team.
Free events with your Subject Advisor Team
Teacher Networks
Join us for a Teacher Network this term. These provide you with a fantastic opportunity to discuss your subject with our subject advisors and colleagues in your local area or online.
You'll also be able to discuss teaching and assessment, share ideas and best practice and build supportive networks.
Subject Briefings
Want to make sure you’re up to date with everything you need to know for the new academic year?
Join our free online subject briefing sessions in the autumn term, where we’ll highlight new and updated resources and make you aware of any new regulations or guidance for the qualifications you teach. There’ll also be the opportunity to ask our subject advisors your questions and share ideas with other teachers of your subject.
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