Link takes you to all the Learning Scientists videos Link takes you to all the Learning Scientists videos. Use the first one – ‘Six Habits of Highly Successful Students’. This is 8 minutes long and there is a worksheet to go with it. You may want to pause after each strategy to give students a chance to think about the answers and compare in pairs. All the strategies are evidence based – using the latest understanding of how our memory works.

Talk them through the next six slides on retrieval practice Talk them through the next six slides on retrieval practice. There is then a video to recap and students can practice using their KOs or GCSE books.

Name three strategies for retrieval practice. Now watch the video on the next slide. The video is by The Learning Scientists. Write down the answers to the three questions below as you watch: Why is it important to put your notes away when doing retrieval practice? Name three strategies for retrieval practice. Apart from key terms and definitions, what else should you learn? This time show them the video on retrieval practice (scroll down to find it). The example is one from A level Psychology – it is a great example – but don’t worry if it goes over their heads! There is a sheet for them to write down their answers in the booklet.

This time show them the video on retrieval practice (scroll down to find it). The example is one from A level Psychology – it is a great example – but don’t worry if it goes over their heads!

Why is it important to put your notes away when doing retrieval practice? To make your brain work. Name three strategies for retrieval practice. Tests, questioning with a friend, flash cards. Apart from key terms and definitions, what else should you learn? The main idea of the lesson and how to apply it. How things are related or different from one another. Remind them that flash cards should be used to test – not just to look at the answers!

Spend 5 minutes reading over the work in silence. Over to you Choose a page in your Knowledge Organiser, text book or exercise book on a topic that you learnt last week. Spend 5 minutes reading over the work in silence. Put your notes away and in silence write down what you can remember on a blank piece of paper or in your LCWC books. This could be key terms, definitions, key ideas, applications, diagrams. This is individual work – best done in silence

Discuss with your partner. What sort of work did you remember? Over to you Open up your notes and check what you missed. In purple pen add in what you have missed. Discuss with your partner. What sort of work did you remember? What did you forget? Why it is easy to remember some ideas and not others? How will you make sure you remember this information in the future? For pair work could write down answers on mini white boards or in rough.

‘Perfect practice makes permanent’ Over to you Remember: To learn effectively it is important that you space out your practice and revisit it often. ‘Perfect practice makes permanent’ Doug Lemov ‘Teach like a Champion’ This leads onto the next lesson on spaced practice. Lots of follow up possible here. Students could test each other, they could make revision cards etc. One Tutor Time per week could be used for this.

http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/6/23-1 http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/4/1-1 These blogs are really good – especially the one on flashcards. Great teaching ideas. http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/2/20-1