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Revision Techniques for A level students

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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Revision Techniques for A level students

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  1. Revision Techniques for A level students

  2. It’s all about SPECS

  3. SPECS • See it • Personalise it • Exaggerate it • Connect it • Share it

  4. Connect it • How do you do this without just setting loads of past paper questions? • I use some of Susan Wall’s techniques.

  5. 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

  6. Filling in the gaps, or Cloze procedure is also valuable for building up structured answers for students .

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. Share it • Group discussion • Raising problems • Identifying tricky bits and sorting them out • Asking questions

  10. Get them Thinking!!!! Make challenging statements that require justification, or force them to find a counter-example.

  11. 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

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

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