Reporting & Assessment Explained 16 October 2019 Target grades
September July
Code Relates to Description
B Behaviour Increased focus required in lessons and avoid distractions of any kind.
H Homework Hand in on time and with the required amount of effort.
P Participation More active involvement in lessons.
R Resilience Work through challenges and problems without giving up too easily.
W Work-rate Increase amount of work produced in the time available.
S Skills Continued work and development needed on mastering the subject skills.
Teaching & Learning at The Carlton Academy 16 October 2019 Sharing graded/banded learning outcomes
• Use a Carlton Academy slide • Creates teacher clarity • Challenge and high expectations Starters that recap prior learning
• Activate prior learning Working memory Environment (awareness and • Free up space in the thinking) working memory • Retrieval practice • Pre-frontal lobe developing slowly Long term memory (factual and • Interleaving procedural knowledge) Feedback with DIRT
• Effective feedback has a substantial impact on progress • Regular review of learning • Departmental strategies
Dig the DIRT Low stakes quizzing
• Schemata • Matthew principle • Regular review of learning • Culture of success • Retrieval practice Key skills
1. Reading • Accelerated Reader • DEAR time 2. Extended writing • Whole school development priority 3. Oracy • Tutor time programme • Quality talk 4. Memory and retrieval • Homework
Memory and retrieval Hermann Ebbinghaus
• The more times you revisit something the more you will remember (less you will forget) Memory and retrieval Robert Bjork • Once you learn something you never actually forget it • But, it becomes harder to access • Forgetting is an important component of learning because it makes space for new information Memory and retrieval
The Testing Effect
Actual performance Actual Predicted performance Predicted
Repeated Reading Repeated Reading reading & reading & retrieval retrieval Homework • 30 minute tasks • Fact retrieval and flipped learning • Big homework tasks • Half-termly booklet • Prep books • Show My Homework • Learning checked through low stakes quizzing in lessons Homework - advantages • Memory and retrieval practice • Frees up lesson time • Meaningful tasks • No loose sheets • Predictable and consistent Thank you Thank you very much for attending. We are looking forward to working with you in the future.
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