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Getting Good Exam Results: Strategies That Work
This Microcourse equips teachers and school leaders with practical strategies to maximize student exam success. Drawing on classroom experience and evidence-based practice, it covers everything from planning a course and creating high-quality teaching notes, to designing tests, supporting revision, and guiding students through formal exams.
Participants will explore how to foster motivation, build confidence, and ensure consistent progress for all learners, including those who struggle. The course also highlights effective interventions, structured revision techniques, metacognition, and the role of parents and school support systems, providing a comprehensive toolkit for improving outcomes across GCSEs, A-levels, and equivalent qualifications.
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Participants will explore how to foster motivation, build confidence, and ensure consistent progress for all learners, including those who struggle. The course also highlights effective interventions, structured revision techniques, metacognition, and the role of parents and school support systems, providing a comprehensive toolkit for improving outcomes across GCSEs, A-levels, and equivalent qualifications.
Meet the Course Presenter
About the Creator
Barnaby Lenon is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Buckingham and a former head teacher with extensive experience in school leadership. He served for six years on the board of Ofqual, where he was directly involved in implementing major GCSE and A level reforms introduced from 2011 onwards. With a career spanning classroom teaching, senior leadership, and national regulation, Barnaby brings a combination of practical and system-level insight into how examinations, standards, and accountability operate in English schools.