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When planning out a curriculum (long term plans), it is best practice to apply spaced practice.
When planning out a curriculum (long term plans), it is best practice to apply spaced practice.
This means that when you are looking at say the units, skills or topics that need to be covered in a year, it is good practice to not teach these units, skills or topics discretely that are only covered once. Instead, you should be thinking about when and how you can revisit units, skills and topics throughout the year. This could be done as starter tasks or homework tasks (for example, whilst teaching 'Adaptations' in Term 2, make your starter tasks or your homework tasks based on 'Cells' that was taught in Term 1).
This means that when you are looking at say the units, skills or topics that need to be covered in a year, it is good practice to not teach these units, skills or topics discretely that are only covered once. Instead, you should be thinking about when and how you can revisit units, skills and topics throughout the year. This could be done as starter tasks or homework tasks (for example, whilst teaching 'Adaptations' in Term 2, make your starter tasks or your homework tasks based on 'Cells' that was taught in Term 1).
Examples
Examples
Anecdote from Sam
Anecdote from Sam
'Whilst reading about spaced practice, I was approaching the final full term with my Year 11 class. So, I decided to put it into practise with the time I had remaining with them to revise for their Language and Literature exams. Instead of doing what I had previously done (spending longer chunks of time on each aspect of each exam) I decided to space the topics out so that the material and learning was revisited several times before the exam. My example is opposite.'
Anecdote from Bridget
Anecdote from Bridget
'In Maths we often get frustrated when it comes to the end of year test and learners cannot remember what they did in term 1. Because of this, we changed topic tests throughout the year to include work that had been covered in all previous terms. When they have just covered Shape and Space we will include some questions on Percentages or Simplifying Algebra covered in previous terms. Once learners begin to expect this they find it a useful way of revising material continuously and consistently. '
Anecdote from Sam
Anecdote from Sam
This year (Aug 2019) I am trialling a longer term spaced practice approach. I have redesigned the Edexcel IG curriculum so that the skills, texts and different components of the exam are spaced throughout the year. I will let you know how it goes and share some feedback from pupil voice, once we are a bit further in!
The colour coding links to clusters - I have taken this approach so that learners see texts from both the Lang and Lit syllabus at the same time (interleaving!). When I first introduce a poem from the Lit anthology I will be introducing approaches to poetry. Then, a month or so down the line, in the next cluster, I will be returning to some poetry from the Lit anthology and will use retrieval strategies to first of all see what my pupils can remember about approaches to poetry before revisiting this.
For the set text (OMAM) I have spaced it so that we will first study it in Term 3 of Year 10 and then revisit it in term 1.2 of Year 11 and then again in Term 2. This is similar to the approach that was successful with my CIE spaced practice (above).
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