Accelerated Learning Cycle Cramlington Learning Village and Preston Lodge High School Helps keep your lessons focussed and relevant Series of lessons
Connect • Might be a hook • Where does this fit into the big picture? • What questions might they already have about topic? • Why is this relevant to the learner? (not everyone wants to be a Scientist)
Share the learning intentions + success criteria • Co-operation • Skills • Content • Opportunity for everyone to make progress
Share New Information This is the teaching bit. • Video • PPt • News article • Demonstration • Piece of text Opportunity to develop learning skills here (modelling strategies etc)
Search for meaning Activity to familiarise and get to grips with. . . Opportunity to feedback • Series of questions • Card sort • Scenarios • Diagrams to label etc. • Experiment Opportunity to develop learning skills here (modelling strategies etc)
Demonstrate understanding This is the finding out of if they’ve got it bit • Quiz • Make a model • Explain it to someone else • Write an essay • Past paper questions • A test
Review and Reflect Opportunity to discuss how we’re doing • Revisit success criteria • Skills as well as content
SOLO Taxonomy
Biggest lesson I’ve learned. . . • Sometimes the most engaging activity is just a question • If it’s not going to actually move their understanding forward, DITCH IT – ask their opinions • Make as much time as possible for MEANINGFUL feedback • J. cunningham 2@mgfl. net