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Revision Techniques for A level students. It’s all about SPECS. SPECS. See it Personalise it Exaggerate it Connect it Share it. Connect it . How do you do this without just setting loads of past paper questions? I use some of Susan Wall’s techniques. Other approaches. Matching games
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SPECS • See it • Personalise it • Exaggerate it • Connect it • Share it
Connect it • How do you do this without just setting loads of past paper questions? • I use some of Susan Wall’s techniques.
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
Filling in the gaps, or Cloze procedure is also valuable for building up structured answers for students .
Find the values of x such that fg(x) = gf(x) gf(x) = _______ Do f first fg(x)= gf(x) when (3x+1)2 = ___________ Expand brackets 9x2 + ____ + ___ = _________ Simplify 6x2 + ______= 0 Factorise _________________ x = ___ or x = _____ Solve
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.
Share it • Group discussion • Raising problems • Identifying tricky bits and sorting them out • Asking questions
Get them Thinking!!!! Make challenging statements that require justification, or force them to find a counter-example.
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
Encourage them to interrupt and to challenge you.Stroppy and demanding students learn more than passive ones