This week some of our E24 / Year 11 GCSE Spanish students taught a mini revision session, covering topics they first encountered in Year 9, to their peers. Their creation of suitable resources to teach material such as musical genres (Frida and Aran), expressing positive and negative opinions of film types (Louie and George), and The Cognate Game and colours (Thomas and Ruby) was set as Extended Study last week and taught by the students themselves this week.
What our Spanish students discovered when they were reminded of being leaders of their own learning is that teaching is actually really difficult! However, a wide range of empirical academic studies conclude that learning by teaching is one of the most effective ways of developing retention and recall of key knowledge….and the students contributed to a bank of resources that they can all access when preparing for their GCSE examinations.
Tom and Ruby’s Cognate Game, followed by their revision of colours proved very popular…..
…..and we applied this knowledge to describe a photo (a GCSE writing task) towards the end.
…..whilst Louie and George chose to focus on building a wider range of adjectives to justify positive and negative opinions of film types.