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Amelia Kyriakides

Keeping it simple but meaningful during school closures

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020Oxford Science Team
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Head of Biology Amelia Kyriakides discusses the ways in which her department has adapted to home learning and how the strategies they’ve developed will continue to benefit her GCSE cohorts on their return to school. For many of us, adapting for home learning meant rapidly rethinking lesson planning. Quick decisions needed to be made based […]

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Using retrieval to support long-term learning in science

October 15, 2019March 26, 2020Oxford Science Team

Learning science involves the acquisition and retention of a large body of knowledge. To be useful, both in assessments and in everyday life, this knowledge needs to be stored durably in memory. Knowledge also needs to be accessible when attempts are made to retrieve it. Aware that students felt overwhelmed by the quantity of content […]

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