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Thursday 30 October 2014

#10minwin - A Level Assessed Questions

Keeping my lower sixth pupils focused has been a challenge at time, so I introduced the expectation of an assessed question at the end of every lesson. Rather ad-hoc at first, I've now created them as worksheets which randomly select a question leading from the exercise that has been covered in the lesson...


Which can then be self-assessed before the bell, giving pupils instant feedback on whether they have achieved the learning objective for that lesson.


Spreadsheet of questions can be found here.


Friday 17 October 2014

#10minwin - True or False Board

Probably one of the most heatedly discussed boards in my classroom: True or False?


Tackling misconceptions and insufficient explanations, pupils vote on whether they think the statement is true or false. At the end of the week the correct answer is revealed with an explanation.

My favourite moment had to be a gaggle of 1st years running to change their vote on the statement above, following a test on order of operations, as they realised they'd forgotten to divide before subtracting!

The statement bank can be found here - any more ideas greatly appreciated!