“A desirable difficulty (first coined by Robert A. Bjork in 1994) is a learning task that requires a considerable but desirable amount of effort, thereby improving long-term performance. As the name suggests, desirable difficulties should be both desirable and difficult.” “When planning lessons, we should not worry about students getting stuck, we should worry about them not getting stuck.” Sherwood (2018) “Making learning too easy leads to thinking that learning has occurred when participants quickly forget and cannot actually apply. Deeper processing is critical”. Shank (2017) These desirable difficulties have been thoughtfully designed in order to challenge your students to go beyond a superficial understanding of the concepts involved in the cardiovascular system. Challenge your students and ask them to explain why certain statements are true and to elaborate on other statements. This will be difficult and will require them to think hard and construct deeper understanding of the concepts. This is good, because “when learning is easy it is often superficial and soon forgotten. However when the learning is difficult it makes the learning stronger and better remembered.” Brown (2014) What’s in this resource? 25 desirable difficulties concerning the cardiovascular system on MS PowerPoint Random generator on MS PowerPoint, enabling you and your students to select any of the desirable difficulties at random - perfect for starter and review activities and for spaced and retrieval practice Printable PDF of the 25 desirable difficulties to display in class and use as extension tasks Printable worksheet of the 25 desirable difficulties for students to work on individually

“A desirable difficulty (first coined by Robert A. Bjork in 1994) is a learning task that requires a considerable but desirable amount of effort, thereby improving long-term performance. As the name suggests, desirable difficulties should be both desirable and difficult.” “When planning lessons, we should not worry about students getting stuck, we should worry about them not getting stuck.” Sherwood (2018) “Making learning too easy leads to thinking that learning has occurred when participants quickly forget and cannot actually apply. Deeper processing is critical”. Shank (2017) These desirable difficulties have been thoughtfully designed in order to challenge your students to go beyond a superficial understanding of the concepts involved in skill classification. Challenge your students and ask them to explain why certain statements are true and to elaborate on other statements. This will be difficult and will require them to think hard and construct deeper understanding of the concepts. This is good, because “when learning is easy it is often superficial and soon forgotten. However when the learning is difficult it makes the learning stronger and better remembered.” Brown (2014) What’s in this resource? 20 desirable difficulties concerning skill classification on MS PowerPoint Random generator on MS PowerPoint, enabling you and your students to select any of the desirable difficulties at random - perfect for starter and review activities and for spaced and retrieval practice Printable PDF of the 20 desirable difficulties to display in class and use as extension tasks Printable worksheet of the 20 desirable difficulties for students to work on individually

Take control of your professional learning and development! Learn and develop in your own time, at your own pace, in your own space! Amazing value!! + £20 pounds worth of additional FREE resources when you leave a review! This self paced CPD focuses on developing your teaching of classification of skills. Centred around the OCR A Level Physical Education specification, this CPD will be beneficial to all PE teachers teaching A Level classification of skills with other exam boards and those teaching BTEC Sport and GCSE PE as well. This CPD, packed with 38 resources, including powerpoint, word and PDF documents and 19 video tutorials, looks at all the subject knowledge and content you’ll need in order to teach this topic with total confidence. It includes: the very best of digital learning making the best use of model answers authentic student responses to exam questions and mark schemes in order to enhance your teaching and your students’ outcomes. This CPD resource is packed with a plethora of video tutorials and ready to use resources. Classification of Skills - Subject Knowledge Classification of Skills - Learning Outcomes Classification of Skills powerpoint Classification of Skills - Teaching and Learning Ideas 6 Essential Steps to Teach Classification of Skill Successfully Socrative What is Socrative? Socrative 1 - Skill Classification Socrative 2 - Skill Classification Socrative Quiz - Classification of Skills Quizlet Creating Flashcards in Quizlet Using Flashcards and Test in Quizlet Glossaries and Printing in Quizlet Analysis of Model Answers Model Answer 1 - Organisation Continuum Model Answer 2 - Pacing Continuum Assessing students’ responses to exam style questions Student Responses 1 Student Responses 2 Student Responses 3 Mark Schemes Open and Closed Skills Open Skills - Justification Open Skill - Give TWO characteristics Pacing Continuum Pacing Question - Using Practical Examples Continuity Continuum Continuity Continuum 2 High and Low Organisation Skills Exam Questions and Mark Schemes FREE You’ll also receive these additional resources FREE when you leave a review and your email address.

With the ever increasing growth of digital learning in schools, colleges and universities this e-book has been created to assist you, the teacher and educator to get the very best out of Microsoft Forms. "Effective Use of Microsoft Forms For Education" The aim is to enable you to become so familiar with what MS Forms has to offer that it transforms your teaching, develops your students’ learning, and assists with student assessment. All with the overall aim of supporting your students to achieve their absolute best. Here’s what you’ll learn: How to create, edit, copy & distribute quizzes to students & colleagues How to create many different kinds of questions, including Maths, Ranking & Likert Scale questions How to copy, delete, shuffle & move questions How to give an extra dimension to your questions by adding images & videos How to use the amazing Immersive Reader How to use branching to support student learning How to create & view File Upload questions How to manage settings, give feedback & print quizzes How to manually mark quizzes & access summaries of students’ responses How to promote meta-cognition, retrieval practice & spaced learning Written to accompany the online course Mastering Microsoft Forms for Teaching, Learning and Assessment you can still make excellent use of this e-book without accessing the online course, although you may decide that you would like to see and hear the explanations of how using MS Forms can transform your teaching as well. This e-book is very succinct and focuses specifically on how to carry out activities in an easy to follow bullet point format. I elaborate in the online video and audio tutorials about educational context and pedagogy and how certain functions of MS Forms lend themselves very well to supporting teaching, learning and assessment, while the content in this e-book gets straight to the point of how to do things. "There is plenty of extremely useful information beyond the basics in this e-book." Unlike other books or guides which look mainly at the functionality of MS Forms this e-book takes a deep dive, approaching the use of MS Forms through the eyes of the educator which allows you to understand the students’ perspective, as well as what quizzes look like ‘behind the scenes’, how to mark and grade quizzes and how to provide feedback to your students before posting them their results. I hope you find this e-book helpful in assisting you on your journey towards Mastering Microsoft Forms for Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

Provide personalised feedback to individual students in your class at the same time. Have you ever wondered how to provide feedback to all of your students at the same time? Now you can, by using this interactive retrieval practice worksheet and resource on the skeletal system. This retrieval practice resource, with 32 questions, is a quick and easy way for your students to review their learning and to succinctly answer exam style questions. It is ideal for independent learning and it gives students the feedback they need immediately, without having to wait for you to confirm they have answered the question correctly or explain why they have got it wrong. How can my students use this resource? Students answer the question in the first column of the worksheet without referring to any notes or having any assistance. They need to think hard to remember what the answer might be - this is retrieval practice. When they have completed the question they scan the QR code using their device and a short YouTube video provides them with the model answer. The students check their responses and the space in the third column provides the opportunity for them to improve their answer if this is necessary. In what other ways can I use this resource? This resource comes in a variety of formats. As well as the Word and PDF documents of the worksheet you will also receive a PowerPoint of the 32 questions which can be displayed on your whiteboard as starter or plenary activity or as an interleaving activity when you are studying another topic and of course for revision. The resource can also be printed as smaller slides which can then be displayed on your classroom walls and in and around the PE department and in the changing rooms. In this way the students can answer the questions and scan the QR code to receive immediate feedback without teachers having to be present. “This is a massive time saver and while other students are working through the worksheet it frees me up in lessons to provide tailored support to the students that need it most.”

A dynamic presentation made on PowerPoint on the influences of the 19th century public schools on the emergence and evolution of modern sport. Whilst providing the key terminology, structure and content, this resource allows you to elaborate and develop the influences of the 19th century public schools with your students as you go. Using iPads or tablets you can distribute this to your students digitally via OneNote, Showbie and upload it on Explain Everything (both apps available on the App Store and Google Play). Contents include: the promotion and organisation of sports and games the promotion of ethics through sports and games the ‘cult’ of athleticism – meaning, nature and impact the spread and export of games and the games ethic