Hegarty & Quizzing Presentation

Improving Independent Study Skills

ASPIRE

BELIEVE

ACHIEVE

Today’s agenda • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

How we used to do it.

When will homework be set?

When will it need to be completed?

What will the homework be?

What will be the content of the homework?

How can my son access help?

What if my daughter has completed all their homework – and wants to do extra?

How should the blue independent study books be used?

What are these quizzes and why low-stakes?

When do the quizzes take place and what do they cover?

How should my daughter prepare for formal assessments?

What are re-tests?

What is ‘Memri’ function and how does it work?

How will I know if my son if working hard?

How can I use my daughter’s exercise book to help her with homework?

Why all the changes?

What does excellence look like?

How we used to do it • Alternate written and on-line (Mymaths) homeworks.

When will homework be set?

FRIDAY

When will homework need to be completed?

FRIDAY

What will the homework be?

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Hegarty Maths tasks (21 weeks) Mathswatch revision assignments (9 weeks) Re-tests (4 weeks) Memri/teacher discretion (4 weeks)

What will the content of the homework be?

• Hegarty - 3 week/6 week review • Mathswatch – revision • Memri – revision

How can my son access help?

Video where Mr. Hegarty teaches your child everything they need to know about that topic & goes through all the examples that will be in the quiz.

Quiz that will allow your child to practice all the examples in the video for themselves and know whether they understood what was in the video.

How can my son access help?

• We can see student scores • We can see what time of day they began it • We can see whether/how many times they watched the video • We can see how many times they attempted the task • We can answer questions and provide feedback via the ‘bell’ function on the site.

How can my son access help?

How can my son access help?

How can my son access help?

Homework Club 1:20 – 1:50pm daily M6 Maths teachers/Y10 experts

What if my daughter has completed all her homework and wants to do extra?

How should the blue independent study books be used?

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Students should complete a minimum of two questions per quiz in their independent study book.

Where this is not feasible, notes can be taken from the video clip.

Students to record Hegarty Clip Number and title – percentage achieved and date Bring into school every Friday – you may get rewards!

J. Bloggs Independent Study Book Mr Hosker 9RHO

What are these quizzes and why low stakes?

Example

When do the quizzes take place and what do they cover?

FRIDAY

When do the quizzes take place and what do they cover?

6 Problem Solving Quizzes • To help with problem solving skills • Teacher’s will mark • Out of 15/25 • Students will be given 15/25 minutes • Questions may not have an answer!

• Rewards will be available.

How should my daughter prepare for formal assessments?

Homework Club

What are re-tests?

Formal assessment

Re-test

What is ‘Memri’ and how does it work?

How will I know if my son is working hard?

How can I use my daughter’s exercise book to help her with her homework?

Index Date

Topic

Hegarty Clips

NUMBERS AND THE NUMBER SYSTEM Prime numbers, highest common factor, lowest common multiple, prime factorisation

28, 29, 32, 35

Standard form

122, 123, 127, 125, 126

CALCULATING Add, subtract, multiply and divide with integers, decimals and fractions

18, 19, 144, 22, 47, 48, 50, 65, 66, 68, 70

BIDMAS

24, 44

Powers and roots

101

Error intervals, truncation, rounding

56, 130, 774, 134, 131

Why all the changes?

Why all the changes? •

Old Model

New Model

What does excellence look like?

Find an example from last year

What does excellence look like?

Find an example from last year

What does excellence look like?

Find an example from last year

What does excellence look like?

Find an example from last year

What does excellence look like?

Questions?

Improving Independent Study Skills “INDEPENDENT STUDY + REGULAR LOWSTAKES TESTING = SUCCESS”