Learning to Learn The aim of the Year 11 Focus Fortnight is to equip the students with the skills to revise effectively. The two weeks will begin with a DEP session which will focus on 5 learning tools that can be transferred into all areas of the curriculum. The students will be taught how to use the learning tool and how to apply it to their own revision style. The learning tools will then be reinforced during curriculum lessons across all subject areas for the two week focus. Each curriculum area will have posters to promote hints and tips for revision and specific skills. There will be an opportunity for Year 11 to attend two drop- in sessions in the ELC on each Wednesday of the two weeks for further guidance.
12
Embed
Learning to Learn The aim of the Year 11 Focus Fortnight is to equip the students with the skills to revise effectively. The two weeks will begin with.
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Learning to Learn
The aim of the Year 11 Focus Fortnight is to equip the students with the skills to revise effectively.
The two weeks will begin with a DEP session which will focus on 5 learning tools that can be transferred into all areas of the curriculum.
The students will be taught how to use the learning tool and how to apply it to their own revision style.
The learning tools will then be reinforced during curriculum lessons across all subject areas for the two week focus.
Each curriculum area will have posters to promote hints and tips for revision and specific skills.
There will be an opportunity for Year 11 to attend two drop-in sessions in the ELC on each Wednesday of the two weeks for further guidance.
Scanning This is a quick search for something important like a name, diagram or key word etc. Students who are good at this are much more likely to find just what they want quickly - avoid reading in detail other parts of the text!
Skimming You have not set out to find a particular fact or key word, but want to see what's there - try looking at the Contents page for example. Skimming allows you to get an overall feel for the text being read.
Table of Difference: A table of difference is a table where one column is one argument and the other column is the opposite argument. This can be for or against, agree or disagree or pros and cons
Practice papers, group planning of questions and lots of peer marking for revision. We use mind maps and visual ways of remembering.
History
• Brainstorming a topic and discussion• Presentations of old topics• Work with mark schemes• Cutting and pasting exercises• Past paper examination questions• Quiz questions• Making up questions and mark schemes• Answering on sugar paper and allowing other groups to add to answers
Music
• Key words to topics are necessary to help to remember content for areas of study in the listening test and to aid the identification of FEATURES.
• Eg• Indian Music,Salsa, Bhangra, Minimalism, Waltz, Disco, Galliard
• Key word glossaries/crosswords• Practice exam questions• Mind maps• Concept maps• Looking at exemplar answers• Revision ‘games’ such as card loops, circle of truth
Learning Support
• Post –it notes around the bedroom, on the fridge etc• Notes written on cards – heading type format.• Reading text books and writing own notes• Getting others to test them• Sharing revision with a friend• Using GCSE Bitesize
• Revision booklets that are available for the subject (Lonsdale Revision Guide)
Drama
• Rehearsal Techniques – Blocking through scenes, Marking out the transitions, Hot seating to get into character.
• Research of Role – Independent research and understanding of the role portrayed• Learning Lines by tape recording or repetition/music• Mind Maps and Thought Showers to generate group ideas• Plan an outline of scenes (running order)• Key words displayed on the walls in the studio to encourage subject specific vocabulary