Mr Broomhall

Been a while since I have been on here, but with the A-Level exams fast approaching I wanted to share a cheat I've put together for my Year 13's. All of the information here is sourced from the past paper 1's, and examiner reports. Hopefully it will help focus their revision!

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@doc_kristy I thought this. Couldn’t get my head around it.

@SteveChiger @paul_bambrick I will have a read and let you know!

@MrBScienceDT I hope so! I’m happy for thoughts and feedback either way, and excited to get these ideas and resources in teachers’ and coaches’ hands — where they can hopefully do good! (And, yes, working with @paul_bambrick was awesome!)

If it's as good as the others I've read, this will be a treat!

With the fall approaching, let’s do a GIVEAWAY! Love & Literacy is full of replicable techniques to supercharge secondary reading comp., discourse, culture & more! Includes videos and printables too! Like & follow & repost to enter! (& thanks for supporting!)

@legophysicsguy Had a very happy cohort of students on Edexcel. Sadly think that will inflate boundaries. Pleased not to be with AQA by sounds of it

How did your students find A Level Physics Paper 3?

@RetirementTales Agree, though expertise is what is would be valued; experience can bring bad habits. I would prefer an expert to teach me how to drive with a high pass rate. An experienced driver would share their bad habits, reducing chances of passing first time.

The teacher retention problem? Experienced teachers should be an asset. But somewhere along the way, the semantics changed. Experienced teachers instead became commonly referred to as "UPS" teachers. The focus shifted from the value of experience to the cost of experience.

I just completed the free CPD course: Literacy in Science for Teachers by @AJTF71 on @SenecaLearn! bit.ly/35m1u2Y #senecacpd

@LiteracyEngine This is what I'm looking into at the moment. Lots of reading to do but hoping to build it into a literacy plan for science. Seeing what some of the words are just helps me make it concrete!

@MrBScienceDT Before you start coming up with a list, come up with an engagement plan around that list. If you don't plan how students engage with it they won't and you'll be left with... well... a list of words. What impact will they have? How will you know?

Is anyone aware of a comprehensive list of tier 2 and 3 words for science? I've been trying for a while to get my head around it and still feel at square one!

@BibiChemistry @fabdisalvo Great shout. @fabdisalvo did some great work on root words too which I have used a lot over the years. Thanks!

@MrBScienceDT Check out @fabdisalvo im sure he has done some amazing work on tier 2 and 3 terms

@MissRimmer78 That's a good idea 💡 do you have a stick to point at them as that is the first thing that can to mind!

@MrBScienceDT I have wall display of commonly mis spelt tier 3 words but it’s not all the words They are typed up on word, printed, trimmed and laminated

@Jo_Moore_Sci Thank you - it has made me feel less overwhelmed with knowing what they are! Maybe overwhelmed with the amount of them ha ha

@MrBScienceDT The aqa student checklists for ks3 are probably a good starting point, but sadly that still involves opening up a ton of pages and copying info across. It only has tier 3 on there. If you are doing tier 2 as well good luck! Perhaps the index/ glossary of a textbook?

@MottiePhys Absolutely - to see concrete examples would be a move in the right direction and start to help us share common language

@Jo_Moore_Sci If our keywords were to be our tier 3 vocab, it would be so much easier to call it that! But a huge list indeed. Good idea to use chatGPT though. Thank you

@MrBScienceDT It would be a really long list! Science teaches more vocab words than a foreign language (so the anecdote goes) I've got key words embedded into SoWs, knowledge organiser's, lesson resources, but I've never come across one great big list of all the key words. One for chat gpt??

@STEMyBanda Thank you - would be a massive help just to see what another scientist thinks!

@MsGHist @AhmedKhattabUK Tutor time reading may get students to read, but not necessarily improve literacy. If Ss aren't able to access their book, or can't comprehend what it's about, it will likely increase behaviour issues. Speak with your librarian about more accessible and see what they recommend

@AhmedKhattabUK We have this. But how to engage them when they are in the session?

Whole School Reading/Literacy How can we engage students who are reluctant readers? (Not struggling readers)

Love Sam's work - worth a free entry!