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Bell Work: Discuss…
How is pushing a sprout up Mount Snowdon with your nose like linear assessment?
“Making it Stick”
• Session outcomes: • Identify the challenges and
opportunities associated with linear assessment.
• Share evidence based strategies that support achievement in a linear curriculum
• Generate new ideas to promote student achievement in a linear curriculum.
Task One: Diamond Ranking
• Study the ten ideas listed on the cards.
• Rank them according to their possible impact on student achievement.
• Note: you must discard one card entirely.
• Feedback: Which idea is most applicable to your subject area?
*Strategy #1: Retrieval Practice
• Retrieval practice means self testing• Retrieving knowledge AND skill from memory• *Synoptic/interleaved testing* ( mix up the content)• Why?• Use these tests to identify areas of weak mastery• Arrests forgetting• Avoids the “illusion of knowing”*• End to cramming for the tests and revising huge chunks
of content • Every time you work hard to recall a memory you
strengthen it.
What might the quick quiz/test look like?
• Q1:Material from the previous lesson • Q2: Previous lesson • Q3: Previous lesson • Q4:Material from two weeks before • Q5:Two weeks before • Q6:Material from five weeks before • Q7:Five weeks before • Q8:Material from the previous half term • Q9:Previous half term • Q10: Make a connection with what they are currently looking at with
something previously studied ( link to starter activity?)
• Low stakes: Make it difficult but NO league tables, no ranking, not an end of unit test or assessment.
• Shadow Testing:• Get Year 11 to answer Year
10 questions as starter activities and bell work.
Discussion
Strategy #2: Spaced retrieval practice
• Studying knowledge and skill more than once but leave time between the practice
• 3-4 weeks and then return to the • *Synoptic/interleaved testing* ( mix up the
content)• Re-loading from long term memory to
strengthen it • Better than “massed practice”
TASK: Generate some strategies that would work with “Spaced Retrieval”
Strategy #3:Elaboration
• Elaboration is the process of finding additional layers of meaning in new material.
• Concepts • Structures • Interrelationships • How does it relate to life outside of school
and the ‘real world’.
• With the study of heat transfer you may understand conduction better if you imagine warming your hands around a hot cup of tea
Bell Work: Make links between the images to show how they caused
prosperity in America.(this should make one paragraph in an
essay)
Bell Work: How is a medieval Knight like a premier league
footballer? Write your answer on your post-it-note
Bell Work…. What have these three men got in common? Write your answer on your post-it-note
Only Connect
What would this look like in your subject?
Strategy #4: Mnemonic Devices
• BRAT • DAMITT • PEEC • TAP • AFOREST
Share any mnemonic devices you use in your subject?
Strategy #5:Deliberate Practice
• Through repeated deliberate practice of exams students become skilled in the automatic state that comes with habit forming.
• The Barcelona way, initiated by a great player, and believer in deliberate practice, Johan Cruyff, relies on the simplest of training drills – the ‘rondo’.
How can Barcelona’s ‘Rondo’ inform our teaching in a linear curriculum?
Strategy #5:Deliberate Practice • We cannot make the cognitive leap of imaginative originality unless we have a solid
grounding in the core knowledge of the basics.
• *Stop seeing repetition as being the enemy of creativity or higher order thinking. With exam revision repetition is our friend.
• It is a simplification of the real game like focusing in on exam technique.
• Crafting and drafting the perfect exam answer singularly, rather than sitting full papers endlessly.
• Mastery, and the related pleasure, that comes from drilling and deliberate practice
• Source: http://martinrobborobinson.wordpress.com/• Source: http://www.huntingenglish.com/• Source: The Science of Successful Learning
Review: Actions
Consider the ideas we have discussed. What will you do as a result?
Write a short pledge that includes three action points.