1. Making it
‘Stick’
A level
#PedagooLondon 2014
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2. Stickability
The content we want students to leave
our lessons understanding
The content we need students to
understand and recall/memorise for
external examinations
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3. What is needed to make lesson
content STICK?
• Desire to learn
• Understanding &
Memorisation
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(from you)

4. Desire to learn
@Doug_Lemov Teach Like a Champion
What we have been doing?
What we are doing today &
ongoing?
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Hook – Stories, Facts,
Confessions, cultural
relevance
Scheme
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5. Desire to learn
...Understand &
memorise?
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6. To learn we need to
move information
from short term
memory to longterm:
distraction
overload/demand
on mental ‘notepad’
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Understanding & Memorisation

7. Understanding & Memorisation
Move information accurately out of
Short Term memory
‘Stickability’
to promote necessary conditions for
Long Term memorisation
ie. make sure they ‘get’ it to make it
possible to learn it
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8. Understanding & Memorisation 1
Visual information to
begin or to assimilate
Forces analysis
& thought
Chunks
Classifies &
categorises
Resonates
Learning happens
when you have to
think hard about
something –
@ProfCoe
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@joe_kirby Pragmatic Education

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10. Kate McCabe @mediaradarguru (subject) @evenbetterif (Teaching)
A Level content
‘chunked’ visually
in Word Wheel

11. Understanding & Memorisation 2
Modelling
Pre-Modelling
Requires
• Knowledge
• Key words
• Planning
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@atharby
reflectingenglish.wordpress.com

12. @atharby
“I have two key modelling
strategies:
1) the use of multiple
completed exemplars
2) the use of ‘live’, or
shared writing, where
students and teacher
co-construct a text or
part of a text”
Kate McCabe @mediaradarguru (subject) @evenbetterif (Teaching)

13. Process:
Model Answers
James Yang Illustration Planet Yang
A and C grade
Exemplars
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@evenbetterif (Teaching)

14. How does a
student arrive at
this ‘mastery’ of
knowledge?
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15. A and C grade
Exemplars
Process:
Model Answers
James Yang Illustration Planet Yang
Success
Criteria
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@evenbetterif (Teaching)

16. Success
Criteria
Process: Model
Answers
Reference to the question
key word terminology
Details as
evidence/example
Application of
Media Theory
Evaluative Comments
Readability & Structure
Kate McCabe @mediaradarguru (subject) @evenbetterif (Teaching)

17. A and C grade
Exemplars
Process:
Model Answers
Success
Criteria
Teacher
Model
“live
writing”
Kate McCabe @mediaradarguru (subject) @evenbetterif (Teaching)
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Pair Think
Based on
Success
criteria.
Shared

18. Success
Criteria
Process: Model
Answers
Reference to the question
key word terminology
Details as
evidence/example
Application of
Media Theory
Evaluative Comments
Readability & Structure
Kate McCabe @mediaradarguru (subject) @evenbetterif (Teaching)

19. Sentence
Frame
Process: Model
Answers
The most significant use of Mise-en-scene
in the text is the domestic setting.
effective
Media language
Icons
Sound
At first glance....
Evaluative comment,
considering text as
whole and making
judgement
Kate McCabe @mediaradarguru (subject) @evenbetterif (Teaching)
Doug Lemov

20. A and C grade
Exemplars
Success
Criteria
Process:
Model Answers
Pair Think
Pair Write
Individual
Write
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James Yang Illustration Planet Yang
Teacher
Model

21. Exam Mentor Mats
Adapted from @GoldfishBowlMM – Mark Miller
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22. Understanding & Memorisation 3
Present
“ I don’t want to look
“I listen more and
learn more when its
someone I don’t
usually listen to”
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stupid in front of
people”

23. 90% of interactions are
made by the same
small group of students
33% would like to
participate more
Student’s Participation
in the Classroom
Rocca (2010)
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50% of students may
not participate at all

24. Understanding & Memorisation 4
Moving
Understanding to Memorisation
Interleaving
Kate McCabe @mediaradarguru (subject) @evenbetterif (Teaching)
Counter-intuitive process of
‘learning’ and memorising
many things at once

25. Understanding & Memorisation 4
Moving
Understanding to Memorisation
Testing
Test, Grade, Spec, Re-test, Grade
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26. Good Practice Shared
Desire to Learn –
Hooks
Visual Content
Modelling
Presenting
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