Senior revision time

Aftert the school exams it was apparent that the L2 Chemistry students are not yet anywhere near ready for their end of year external exams.

In repsonse to this I decided to drop the final internal that was slated, Oxidation and Reduction, in favour of spending the remaining class time on revision of the content of the external standards.

In class time students are allowed to choose their own specific area of the course to concentrate their revision. To aid and focus them at the start of each lesson I circulate in the class and ask them to give me their personal topic or success criteria for the hour they have in the classroom. Making them choose one specific thing to master in the hour seems to improve their focus for their learning and help break down the seemingly impossible task into smaller bits that are possible.

Pre exam jitters

It is the L2 Chemistry exam today. I went to talk to my students before they went in. Most have been strategically picking which papers to do and focusing their efforts.
The students seem upbeat and were surprised and happy to see me, saying that I'm the only teacher who has been to see them before their exam. I encouraged them to come and see me afterwards to tell me how it went.