SKIL Strategies Knowledge for Independent Learning individual Work

SKIL Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning individual Work SKIL cards are sets of cards aimed at helping pupils help themselves to attain higher by improving their Independent Learning skills. This set of cards is aimed at improving work completed by an individual by giving guidance and focus without the need for intervention from a teacher. The aim is for students to assimilate the strategies and eventually use and modify them in their own contexts, now and in the future.

SKIL i 1 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 1 Time: 20 to 50 mins Reviewing subject knowledge: Mind Maps 1. Choose a section of notes to review – this can be any size from a 2 page sub topic to a whole unit of work. 2. Write the title in the middle of a blank piece of paper. 3. Use pictures, lines and arrows of any kind to connect the different parts of the topic. Use your notes to help you with the information. Make sure that it fits on one piece of paper. Extension: Use a mind map to help you think through a solution to an exam question, when researching a topic or when planning a long answer. You can have as many branches to the map as you like.

SKIL i 2 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 2 Time: 20 min Reviewing marked work: 1. Choose a piece of work that has been marked. 2. Analyse the marked questions (use a mark scheme to help you). Write a few bullet point about why you have achieved marks and why marks were not awarded, correct work as you go. 3. Look at your bullet points and sum up in one sentence what you will improve upon next time. Keep this information and use it to improve. Extension: Before starting the task then revise that part of the subject and complete the task without reference to notes.

SKIL i 3 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 3 Time: 50 min + Applying knowledge – questioning 1. Choose a topic which you would like to work on. 2. Collect 3 or 4 exam papers together and identify questions from each paper that correspond to your chosen topic. 3. Read through the questions you have identified and choose one part from each question to answer (use your notes to answer the questions). 4. Mark your work using the mark schemes. Extension: Answer all the question and identify where questions repeat themselves.

SKIL i 4 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 4 Time: 20 to 50 mins Reviewing subject knowledge: Spider diagram 1. Choose a section of notes to review – this can be any size from a 2 page sub topic to a whole unit of work. 2. Write the title in the middle of a blank piece of paper. 3. Draw lines (or arrows) out from the title and add sub topic labels at the end of each line. Use your notes to help you with the information. 4. Keep drawing lines out from each sub topic until all the information is presented in the diagram. Make sure that it fits on one piece of paper. Extension: Use a spider diagram to help you learn a topic before you answer questions on it. You can have as many branches to the map as you like.

SKIL i 5 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 5 Time: 20 to 50 mins Reviewing subject knowledge: Clock sequence 1. Choose a section of notes to review – this can be any size from a 2 page sub topic to a whole unit of work. 2. Draw a clock in the middle of the paper. 3. Sequence key ideas from your notes around the hours of the clock. Extension: This method connects key points to a mental picture that is already familiar to you. As an extension choose a different picture to use.

SKIL i 6 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 6 Time: 30 min Applying knowledge – questioning 1. Choose a long answer type question. 2. Chunk your answer so that each chunk satisfies one mark for the question. 3. Cut the answer up and then lay it out using the different parts of a room to represent different parts of the answer. Extension: This could also be used to learn different sequences in a topic.

SKIL i 7 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 7 Time: 30 min Applying knowledge – questioning 1. Look at how many marks there are for the question you have chosen to do. 2. Do the question, using your notes, timing yourself – the time you should give is the amount of marks in minutes plus 5 mins i. e. if a question is worth 10 marks then give yourself 15 minutes to do the question. 3. Mark your work using the mark scheme identifying where to improve. Extension: Give yourself the same number of minutes as there are marks e. g. 10 mark question should take 10 mins and then try to do them without your notes.

SKIL i 8 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 8 Time: 30 min Applying knowledge: Drawing connections 1. Choose a topic and draw pictures representing the different parts of the topic. Use your notes to help you. 2. Draw arrows between each drawing that is connected. 3. Write words or sentences on the arrows to describe the connections. Extension: Try doing the activity without notes.

SKIL i 9 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 9 Time: 15 to 30 mins Reviewing subject knowledge – Look Cover Write 1. Choose some information that needs to be remembered e. g. a set of definitions. 2. Look at the information trying to find patterns. Try to ‘peg’ each piece of information to a familiar thing e. g. a room in your house. 3. Remove your notes so you can not see them and write out the information on a sheet of paper. Try to recall the information e. g. by remembering the room in your house and what you have ‘pegged’ to that room. 4. Check your written sheet with your notes and correct any mistakes and write out anything that is missing. 5. Repeat until your written sheet and notes match. Extension: Start small and then make the amount you need to remember larger. Return every few weeks to the same information and try recalling it without first looking at your notes.

SKIL i 10 Strategies & Knowledge for Independent Learning Sheet: Individual work 10 Time: 20 min or more Reviewing marked work: 1. Obtain the mark scheme for the work that has been marked and go through your paper, correcting it and understanding where you could improve. 2. Do the work again e. g. redo an exam paper. 3. Mark your re-done work. Extension: Re-do the work two weeks later to reinforce what you have learned.