Mastery Learning

The lessons below are rated outstanding by the school. The lessons are highly differentiated and learning is directed via AFL. Lesson 0 - entry test and Admin for module Lesson 1 - forces basics Lesson 2 - contact and not contact forces Lesson 3 - redraft for success AFL lesson Lesson 4 - testing friction Lesson 5 - DIRT on friction and previous learning Lesson 6 - Short answer AFL test Lesson 7 - Mass and weight Lesson 8 - magnetism Lesson 9 - magnetic fields

The lesson is highly differentiated and focuses on allowing the student a degree of choice as to which tasks to complete. The lessons starts with a DO it Now activity which has two options for the students to choose, an easy and a harder, this demonstrates stretch and challenge. The central activity to the lesson get the students up and reviewing different forces and coming up with examples. Knowledge is shown via a Blooms pyramid activity. The lesson finishes in an exit ticket.

This Outstanding format is a great way to engage student is self assessment rather than the meaningless and superficial marking that arbitrarily occurs 3-4 times per semester. Make formative assessment count! The lesson start by a think - pair - share activity to engage student in what it mean to be successful. The lesson then explains what a 6 mark question is in the new Exam. There is then a hinge question which assesses prior understanding and differentiated the question for the next task.

The lesson is aimed at early Grade 5,6,7 as a foundation to later progress. The Do it Now task is a review and identification of forces that should have been learned in previous lessons. The experiment is then demonstrated for the students before the students get the chance to perform and record their own results in a differentiated results table (one just has to have numbers recorded the other as place to work out averages for more mathematically able students. The students are then required t