Revision Techniques for A level students

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Revision Techniques for A level students
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Its all about SPECS
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SPECS

• See it
• Personalise it
• Exaggerate it
• Connect it
• Share it

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Connect it

• How do you do this without just setting loads of
  past paper questions?
• I use some of Susan Walls techniques.

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Other approaches

• Matching games
• Dominoes
• Making giant posters, in pairs or groups, to show
  working and annotation with key points
• All of these work well in pairs and groups

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Filling in the gaps, or Cloze procedure is also
valuable for building up structured answers for
students .
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Find the values of x such that fg(x) gf(x)
gf(x) _______ Do f first fg(x) gf(x)
when (3x1)2 ___________ Expand brackets 9x2
____ ___ _________ Simplify 6x2 ______
0 Factorise _________________ x ___ or x
_____ Solve
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Consider using colour.

• Make notes on coloured pens and paper.
• Use different colours for different topics.
• Put formulae and key facts on coloured card on
  the classroom walls.
• Encourage students to use coloured post-it notes
  in their files to mark questions to ask.

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Share it

• Group discussion
• Raising problems
• Identifying tricky bits and sorting them out
• Asking questions

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Get them Thinking!!!!

• Make challenging statements that require
  justification, or force them to find a
  counter-example.

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Classroom culture

• Create an expectation in the students that
  nothing should be accepted or learnt without
  understanding
• Demand that they can always explain and justify
  their own solutions
• Encourage argument

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Encourage them to interrupt and to challenge
you.Stroppy and demanding students learn more
than passive ones