“The Beast”

A year in the life of an esports teacher (Part 6)

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts by lecturer, consultant, and teacher of esports, Nik Turner.

My last blog offering, ‘The Wow Factor’, slightly went off topic in terms of the physical delivery of the BTEC and peaked beyond the boundaries of a specification in order to highlight the opportunities available to schools and colleges outside of the classroom. As it turned out the responses and reaction to that took me pleasantly by surprise as it clearly helped educators to start to think about the bigger picture and the potential of the esports offer to any curriculum. But this article sees a return to the teaching and ‘The Beast’ that is Unit 2!

Sitting at 120 credits the mandatory ‘Esports Skills, Strategies and Analysis’ is most definitely a unit that needs some thinking about! At the BETT 2022 show in March this year I had the privilege of being given the opportunity by Pearson to speak on the esports stage about the delivery of the BTEC and one thing I said grabbed the interest of Pearson BTEC who quoted it on Twitter and LinkedIn which concerned ‘busting some myths about the BTEC’.