Marginal learning gains

Amanda Salt

@amandasalt

asalt@grosvenorgrammarschool.org.uk

MARGINAL GAINSBritish Cycling’s Peformance Director

"The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together"

Marginal learning gains wheel

DIRT

Purple pens for self reflection

Self reflection boards

Plenary of learning - Plickers, self evaluation board etc

Independent revision tools eg Flipquiz

HWs/ setting own hws Here are some thoughts for homeworks. You must set yourself 3 hours of work per week, plus your normal independent study time. I will put essay titles, oral questions, etc on Edmodo.

LISTENING

• yabla.com should become your best friend • http://spanishingrosvenor.wikispaces.com/A+LEVEL+SPANISH+LISTENING • http://spanishingrosvenor.wikispaces.com/A+LIST+OF+USEFUL+WEBSITES+-+A+LEVEL The listening ones are

indicated • Listen to the news on the website newsinslowspanish.com• Subscribe to our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Spanishinggs • Do past paper practice. The soundfiles are in the Shared folder W:\MODERN LANGUAGES\SPANISH\ASAUDIO • Pointe al día textbook has a CD with it and a teacher book with the answers at the back of my room• There are listening books in the store which have CDs

READING• Set yourself vocab tests • Reading comprehensions from your booklets• Past paper practice• http://spanishingrosvenor.wikispaces.com/A+LIST+OF+USEFUL+WEBSITES+-+A+LEVEL The reading ones are

indicated • Websites such as Marca, EL gancho, El Mundo and El Pais, plus others listed

http://spanishingrosvenor.wikispaces.com/A+LIST+OF+USEFUL+WEBSITES+-+A+LEVEL Read the headlines and work out what the articles are about, look up unknown vocabulary and write it in your vocabulary books

VLE

Collaboration & sharing good practice

Books for educators

Display boards & stuck boards

IKEA frames and paint strips for vocab building

Boxes on desks with dictionaries, mark schemes etc

Active learning - Greg Horton's active learning movements, Jenga, Tarsia, Soy yo

Apps for education

10 reasons to do Spanish

Stats on board

Lavender