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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
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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
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Session 1 will centre around the Science of Learning
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Session 2 is all about Forgetting
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Session 3 goes over Retrieval Practice with the introduction of Brain Dumps & some practice
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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
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Session 5 looks at the power of deliberate practice, introducing the @SandResearch memory clock
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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
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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

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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
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@KatieEHolmes_ @Inner_Drive @teacherhead @AlexJQuigley @EducEndowFoundn @Miss_G_Geog Another section on Wellbeing & Stress
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@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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Sep 7, 2023
This week @MeolsCopHS is launching a new homework policy, something that’s been almost a year on a making.

A thread 🧵 on implementation
Firstly, as with effective implementation, we began to identify the ‘why’

This involves creating up a T&L Inquiry group - totally voluntary, made up of a range of staff who were keen to be involved


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As an aside from this, we sought to hear from as many voices as possible - therefore we used our @TeacherTapp school surveys to gather views from parents and staff, alongside collecting pupil voice

It allowed us to identify some barriers & opportunities
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Jan 26, 2023
At @MeolsCopHS today we launched the first of our new Instructional Rounds cycle:

This is a classroom teacher led professional development opportunity for staff to see & share good practice within our school. Flipping traditional observation & learning walks on their head. ImageImage
In essence, 12 staff working in triads are taken off timetable for the morning.

They observe 24 lessons between them, looking for the excellent practice & ‘bright spots’ within the classroom. This time as a general overview of the school.

This is part of the IR Cycle 👇 Image
During the introduction, I talked about our ‘teacher improvement is school improvement’ principle which site at the heart of this

I included this excellent @MrNickHart slide when talking about our culture at Meols Cop - this summarises who we are, and why we do what we do. Image
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Sep 7, 2022
Our whole school T&L focus this year is a return to Metacognition and Self Regulated Learning.

I’ve been lucky to draw on the expertise of the @meolsresearch team & training to develop our CPD plan, built around the excellent @EducEndowFoundn PD programme. ImageImageImage
Our first session led with the important ‘why’, some reading from the EEF Guidance Report & a summary based on @FunkyPedagogy’s book. ImageImageImageImage
Yesterdays session delved deeper into theory & the models of metacognition, building on Recommendation 2

A concrete example of how cooking a Christmas dinner exemplified metacognition regulation, alongside a task around our strengths and weaknesses around teaching the 6 aspects ImageImageImageImage
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Feb 26, 2020
Booklets - a thread on my current process in designing them and using them.

I’ve just finished my most recent one, so time to reflect

I’ll probably blog this up eventually, initially I’d planned to talk at @TMHistoryIcons but I’m useless at sorting my life out 🤷‍♂️

/n
Rationale -

I’ve a new Y9 cohort who are LPA, so I wanted to both make the course accessible but challenging and apply #cogsci principles

Also, something @MrSamPullan tweeted last year, “use the notes, don’t do the notes” struck with mea reduce time on heavy note making
All in one place

These booklets contain everything:
- Content
- Activities
- Assessment
- Feedback
- Retrieval Practice
- Homework

This means no printing or flapping about for sheets, resources etc and contents pages are SUPER useful and can be RAG’d for revision
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