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.