Accelerated Learning Cycle

Stage 6 - Review

Key Features:

• Use the debrief to discuss whether learning outcomes have been achieved
• Use the review to teach pupils how to talk about about how they learn (metacognition)
• Review can be oral (discussion), written (learning logs/review sheets) or pictorial
• Pupils need regular review experiences, and lengthier reviews at the end of a unit/module etc

REVIEW - this is one of the most important stages of the cycle and is often the least well done in lessons. Michael Hughes in "Closing the Learning Gap" suggests that without review information is lost almost immediately. At the very least in this section the teacher will return to the learning outcomes and re-emphasise the main learning points of the lesson. At a higher level the students themselves will active in their own review. This may be an established classroom ritual where the students automatically list the three most important things they think they have learned and write down two questions they still want to ask (the teacher would pick these up next time). Part of this section may also preview the next lesson thus reinforcing the connections between lessons. At a different level again the teacher may use this part of the lesson to debrief (Thinking Skills) the learning, carefully unpacking the learning outcomes through skilful open-ended questioning techniques. In a true thinking lesson (creating a culture of thinking in the classroom) there would be an opportunity to focus not only on what has been learned but also on how learning has taken place - metacognition.

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