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Afternoon INSET Focus: “Planning for memory and revision” Wednesday 26 th November 2014

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Afternoon INSET

Focus: “Planning for memory and revision”

Wednesday 26th November 2014

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Using the post-it notes …

Starter: Write down the name of a teacher that taught you from the past that sticks in your mind for any given reason …

Include a brief reason for choosing this teacher …

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Did you know …?

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How do we tackle improving the memory in MFL?

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Example memory techniques …

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Examples of practice …

Vocabulary testing

Memory maps

Recommence

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Recommence

• Aujourd’hui j’habite

à Portsmouth

en Angleterre

aux États-Unis

...mais autrefois j’habitais...

en France

à l’Espagne

à Londres.

• La ville où j’habite est...

très industrielle

assez grande

trop bruyante

• mais la ville où j’habitais était...

plus belle.

moins vivant.

un peu ennuyeuse.

• Il y avait des avantages et des

inconvénients dans mon ancienne

ville. Par exemple, il y avait...

trop de pollution,

des musées,

des commerces,

• mais il n’y avait pas...

de club de jeunes.

d’espaces verts

assez de bus

• J’aimais la ville où j’habitais parce

que...

mes amis vivaient là.

il y avait beaucoup de

choses a faire.

c’était près de la mer.

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• relaxation to music• creative visualisation, affirmations, seeding and music• pre-lesson prep. (recall and rehearsal)• teacher cues (body language/voice for emphasis)• looking for links (recall and rehearsal)• asking questions (rehearsal)• post-lesson review (sooner the better) (rehearsal)• filtering out main points/filling in gaps (rehearsal)• self testing (recall)• short and frequent study periods• black pen/red pen revision (recall)

LTG Focus Group

Suggested strategies to trial …

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Using available resources to good effect …

VLE

Making explanations stick – David Fawcett

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Final thoughts …

Humans can only concentrate for their chronological age plus 1 minute …

Re-visit previous work

Give students the chance to make connections

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Make learning memorable!

Teachers from the past …