Learning To Learn – Year 10

Emotional Learning – Session 2

Learning Outcomes• ALL MUST: Understand the

relationship between how you feel and learning, and understand about the importance of organisation.

• MOST SHOULD: Be able to analyse their own learning and organisation skills and think about how to make learning a positive experience.

• SOME COULD: Evaluate their learning experiences and control and adapt their feelings in order to make their learning more effective, based on good organisation.

GROUND RULES

What were the ground rules established last lesson?

Are there any more ground rules that you would like to add?

Learning Is Linked to Emotions – Remember -

• Emotion is attached to everything we do and therefore, to everything that we learn.

See?

Learning Log

• Re-visit your learning logs from last lesson.

• Discuss how and why learning is valuable if it is reflective.

IN a Circle:-

You are now going to reflect on your own response to learning and revision. You are going to be thinking about how to plan your time effectively.

Deadlines

• Imagine that you have some important exams next week. How well would you plan your time?

• What would you do in the following scenarios?

• Discuss with a partner and feedback to the rest of the group.

1. You have just bought the new Call of Duty game.

2. Three of your friends (who are not doing the same exams as you) invite you to a party.

3. You have a part time job, but your boss offers you extra hours. As these are on a Sunday, it means you will get paid double. You have an important exam the next day.

4. You have your controlled conditions course work for English after the weekend and need to work on your notes and make sure that you have understood the play that you will be studying. It is Sunday evening, about 7pm and a boy / girl that you really fancy ‘phones you up and asks if you want to go and see a film at the cinema.

5. You are half-way through a history essay that is due in the next morning and your best friend ‘phones you up to ask you how you are getting on.

Planning Your Time

With a partner, look at the following timetable that a student has created 10 weeks before they sit their GCSEs.

Decide on the positives and negatives. Put your thoughts on post-its and stick them on a thought-bubble board.

DAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

Afternoon(4:00 –

5:30)

Historyhomewor

k

Play COD for

1 hour

Watch TV

Music Practice

Do Geography

coursework

COD 6 for 1 hour

Businessstudieshomewor

k

AM: Go shopping

PM: Play COD 6 for two hours

AM: Lie-in

PM: Youth Orchestra rehearsal

Evening6:30 – 9:00

MathsHomework(due

Tuesday)

English Homework

GermanVocabulary revision

Swimming

and thenmeetfriends

Horse riding

lesson

Badmintonclub

Meet friendsand go out

Meet friends and then go out

Watch TVfor an hour

Mathshomework

DISCUSSION

• What are the positives about the timetable?

• What can be improved on?

• What issues may you face when planning your time like this? How will these issues be overcome?

Plenary

• How can lack of organisation lead to stress? How can this strangle and suffocate learning?

• Discuss as a group.

EXTENSION ACTIVITY:

In pairs, design your own revision timetable.