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Assistant Head, ELE, History Teacher, ITT/ECT Lead & School Improvement team. Nottingham lad, adopted Scouser & exhausted dad (of 2 girls) #YWNA

Aug 1, 2024, 14 tweets

I’m working on a programme for our Y10 & 11 called the 1% Club

Based off Atomic Habits (& The Bear) it’s all about continuous improvement & empowering them to be independent, motivated & self regulated learners.

This ties in with our work on metacognition & learning behaviours

The programme with include assemblies, parental information evenings & tutor (ASPIRE) sessions

Tutor sessions will be based around booklets like these - this is Year 1 for Y10

Sessions involve theory, examples, practice, retrieval & goal setting

Session 1 will centre around the Science of Learning

Session 2 is all about Forgetting

Session 3 goes over Retrieval Practice with the introduction of Brain Dumps & some practice

Session 4 goes over the power of Flashcards.

We’ll be encouraging subjects to use these and brain dumps as their revision strategies in lessons during these 2 terms, allowing contextualisation in lessons

Session 5 looks at the power of deliberate practice, introducing the @SandResearch memory clock

Session 6 circles back to our original assembly & launch when we talk about the power of habits in the run up to their first set of mocks exams

Our final session of the year, which is post mock exams, looks at being Self Reflective Learners

Mock Exam Wrapper central feature of this session

I need to create a special version for Y11 who will only experience a year of it.

Big thanks to @KatieEHolmes_ whose work finally encouraged me to get something sorted.

Usual thanks to those who’s work inspired @Inner_Drive @teacherhead @AlexJQuigley @EducEndowFoundn

@KatieEHolmes_ @Inner_Drive @teacherhead @AlexJQuigley @EducEndowFoundn @Miss_G_Geog 👀👀👀

@KatieEHolmes_ @Inner_Drive @teacherhead @AlexJQuigley @EducEndowFoundn @Miss_G_Geog Some of the updated hits for the Y11 version - it’s not Year 2, just a combo of the two years

Little page on goals to follow our systems & goals sessions - we did this last year and it was really powerful.

Also a checklist for the final stage of revision

@KatieEHolmes_ @Inner_Drive @teacherhead @AlexJQuigley @EducEndowFoundn @Miss_G_Geog Another section on Wellbeing & Stress

@KatieEHolmes_ @Inner_Drive @teacherhead @AlexJQuigley @EducEndowFoundn @Miss_G_Geog And a final one on building a revision timetable (systems!) by harnessing spacing and interleaving

That’s me done for summer, onto delivery 💪

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