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KS4 Parent Forum – Supporting your child’s learning at GCSE

Learn about GCSE course info, effective learning strategies, memory retrieval, spacing, interleaving, and parental support tips. Includes quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, diagrams, and more.

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KS4 Parent Forum – Supporting your child’s learning at GCSE

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  1. KS4 Parent Forum – Supporting your child’s learning at GCSE • Introduction and important information – Mr Finlay • GCSE course information – Mrs Pearce • Effective learning strategies – Dr Rowley and Mrs Pearce • Consultation

  2. Effective Learning Strategies

  3. What is Learning? Learning occurs when information is transferred into the long-term memory, which can be retrieved in the future.

  4. Strategy 1 - Retrieval Practice • This is any activity that means you have to retrieve information from your long-term memory. • From memory! No notes! • Test yourself – quizzes, flash cards, knowledge organisers, mind maps, summaries, diagrams, graphic organisers. • Then add in and correct

  5. Quizzes • Write/use lots of questions and try to answer them • Re-cover the areas you did not recall well • Include a range of questions – multiple choice, knowledge, understanding.

  6. Flash cards

  7. Knowledge organisers • A knowledge organiser specifies in detail, the facts and knowledge that you will need to know and remember about a particular topic. • Use to self-quiz – write down as much as you can from memory

  8. Mind maps

  9. Diagrams

  10. Graphic organisers

  11. GGSE Pod - Pods and Quizzes

  12. Strategy 2 - Spacing • Revisiting a topic sometime after first learning it. • Go over topics multiple times, with a gap in between • Revisit/review topics that you covered last week, last month and all the way back to the start of the course

  13. Strategy 3 - Interleaving • It is more effective to mix subjects/topics up than go over them in blocks • Questions that ask you about lots of different topics

  14. Can’t I just read my notes?

  15. Can’t I just revise?

  16. What can parents do to help? • Encourage your child to do reviews regularly and early! • Discuss these techniques with your child • Test your child • Review timetable and planning • Revision guides • Exam papers • Study area • Screens and phones • Wellbeing– sleep, food, activities to de-stress **Courses lists ** Information from departments

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