TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT : SHARING IDEAS AND BEST PRACTICE
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Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Sharing ideas and best practice TRURO AND PENWITH COLLEGE
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Teacher Research: evidence based approach to improving teaching and learning students need to re-use information 6 times before they remember it. Each re encounter can however be very brief (this rule might be used as the basis of a poster display in classrooms to inform students). Methods of teaching that provide opportunities for this repetition, such as those discussed in the next section looking at examples of frameworks, The keynote speaker at the Conference held at the college on the 7th March was Mike Bell. Mike referred to research findings published by John Hattie as to what works best for learning and to the work of Geoff Petty (more information can be found on Hattie’s Visible Learning website: http://visible-learning.org and at: http://geoffpetty.com/). We all are aware that students need to revisit ideas a number of times to develop their understanding and recall but one of the many useful findings is that
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evidence based Teaching and Learning Improvement a range of frameworks to assist learning improving the effectiveness of demonstrations through video promoting diversity opportunity examples of new ILT software
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should be built into schemes of work and/or lesson plans. Hattie’s research found that students acting on feedback has the highest impact on learning. Peer assessment is one model of feedback that is particularly effective, in circumstances where students are less confident this