A 40 page document that goes trough every theme and sub-topic of the new spec GCSE. Each table has between 15 and 35 questions which test the student on their understanding of the topic.
How I have been using them is...
Step 1: Provide the student with the knowledge check table in ADVANCE of teaching any content in order to ascertain what they already know. They write their answers in the grid in black/blue ink.
Step 2: Ask students to swap to the colour pen you use for marking in your school and go through answers. They MUST NOT add any answers, simply just tick those they got correct/correct any that were partially there. OR...use three different highlighters. Green for secure answer, yellow for partially there, red for not understood/attempted.
STEP 3: students see from the blank answers/highlighted answers, where they need to revise. They update their score on the progress tracker for that particular topic and then identify the questions which need most revision.
STEP 4: I provided my students with photocopies of all of the vocab in the Studio textbook which they have at home. Homework is then set to revise from this vocab sheet, learning any answers that were red from 1st attempt.
STEP 5: The SAME knowledge check is done the following week but this time students use a different colour pen for their answers and once again, answers are gone through.
STEP 6: Students record their second attempt mark on the progress tracker. I have issued consequences for lack of progress and written letters home to indicate that intervention is needed after school and have used the knowledge checks as evidence.
Of course, they do not have to be used as above and could simply be given at the end of the teaching of a topic to show how much knowledge students have secured.
Hope they're useful! The idea is obviously to help students secure knowledge but also to engage them in their learning/revision. I put a song on whilst they complete the grid and find that making it a timed exercise promotes a bit of competition!
NOTE: the vocab/structures were all taken from the HIGHER textbook and where I have some weaker students in my class who cannot cope with some of the vocab, I crossed that question out or made it slightly more simple.
How I have been using them is...
Step 1: Provide the student with the knowledge check table in ADVANCE of teaching any content in order to ascertain what they already know. They write their answers in the grid in black/blue ink.
Step 2: Ask students to swap to the colour pen you use for marking in your school and go through answers. They MUST NOT add any answers, simply just tick those they got correct/correct any that were partially there. OR...use three different highlighters. Green for secure answer, yellow for partially there, red for not understood/attempted.
STEP 3: students see from the blank answers/highlighted answers, where they need to revise. They update their score on the progress tracker for that particular topic and then identify the questions which need most revision.
STEP 4: I provided my students with photocopies of all of the vocab in the Studio textbook which they have at home. Homework is then set to revise from this vocab sheet, learning any answers that were red from 1st attempt.
STEP 5: The SAME knowledge check is done the following week but this time students use a different colour pen for their answers and once again, answers are gone through.
STEP 6: Students record their second attempt mark on the progress tracker. I have issued consequences for lack of progress and written letters home to indicate that intervention is needed after school and have used the knowledge checks as evidence.
Of course, they do not have to be used as above and could simply be given at the end of the teaching of a topic to show how much knowledge students have secured.
Hope they're useful! The idea is obviously to help students secure knowledge but also to engage them in their learning/revision. I put a song on whilst they complete the grid and find that making it a timed exercise promotes a bit of competition!
NOTE: the vocab/structures were all taken from the HIGHER textbook and where I have some weaker students in my class who cannot cope with some of the vocab, I crossed that question out or made it slightly more simple.
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