The document discusses 4 types of meaningful homework and effective study skills: 1. Pre-learning - determining what a student already knows and can do, and identifying ways to prepare for new content. 2. Checking for understanding - activities like explaining concepts back, creating mnemonics, and identifying examples vs. non-examples. 3. Practice and application - completing quality learning tasks and engaging in "strength training" with easier to more difficult problems. 4. Processing and reflection - summarizing content, asking questions from answers, and reviewing material in multiple ways like reading, listening, drawing, and teaching others.

1. Meaningful Homework &
Effective Study Skills
For Every Subject
Date

3. What do you know?
✤ There are ten questions about Australian history on your table
✤ Scan through them: Put a tick next to the ones you know for certain, a
circle next to the ones you know something about, a question mark
next to the ones you don’t really know anything about

4. Four Types of Homework / Study
Skills
✤ Pre-learning
✤ Checking for understanding
✤ Practice & Application
✤ Processing / Reflection

5. Four Types of Homework / Study
Skills
✤ What category did the first task belong to?

6. Pre-learning
✤ What does the student already know?
✤ What can the student already do?
✤ What can the student do to prepare for what they need to know and
do?

7. Pre-Learning
✤ Skill / Content Continuums

8. Pre-Learning
First we’re And by the end
Then about Then about
going to learn you need to
this... this...
about this know this...
And by the
First we’re
Then how to Then how to end you need
going to learn
do this... do this... to be able to do
how to do this
this...

9. Pre-Learning
✤ Students who learn effectively independently have specific goals
about what they want to be able to know and do
✤ If we want students to have specific goals, we need to articulate
specific stages of learning to them

11. Checking For Understanding
✤ Explain back
✤ Mnemonics
✤ Vocabulary activities
✤ Example / Non-Example

12. Checking For Understanding
✤ Explain back:
✤ As a podcast / vodcast demonstrating the process / discussing the
content
✤ Without using any of these key words
✤ In a way that Year 7s will understanding
✤ In a different format - as an annotated picture / flow chart / graph,
comic
✤ By using an extended simile or metaphor

13. Checking For Understanding
✤ Mnemonics:
✤ R = Remember
✤ A = Affect
✤ V = Verb
✤ E = Effect
✤ N = Noun

14. Checking For Understanding
Related Related Related
term term term
Related Key Related
term word term
Related Related Related
term term term

15. Checking For Understanding
✤ Example & Non Example:
✤ What is an example of legislation? What could be mistaken for an
example of legislation, but isn’t legislation?

17. Practice & Application
✤ Quality Learning Tasks
✤ Strength Training

18. Practice & Application
✤ Quality Learning Tasks
✤ In this upcoming SAC in English you need to write a text response
essay. As practice tasks we will do the following things:
✤ Just practicing: procedures for understanding the essay topic,
procedures for planning, writing introductions, writing topic
sentences, writing body paragraphs focusing on using evidence,
writing body paragraphs using certain types of evidence, writing
body paragraphs focusing on analysis, using meta language in our
body paragraphs.

19. Practice & Application
✤ Strength Training:
Easy Moderate
Very
Difficult
Difficult

21. Processing & Reflection
✤ Concept charting
✤ Summarising
✤ What questions go with these answers

22. Processing & Reflection
✤ Concept Charting:
✤ Establish a list of ten key words on a topic
✤ What is the most important word?
✤ What is the word you link most with this first word?
✤ What is the word you link most with the second word?
✤ Repeat process, then explain links between words

23. Processing & Reflection
✤ Summarise Content:
✤ As a picture
✤ As a flow chart
✤ By highlighting key words and changing them

24. Processing & Reflection
✤ Working back from answers:
✤ Here is an answer / an example / a piece of evidence
✤ What are three / as many / questions that can be asked to arrive at
this answer
✤ Divide the questions into 2-3 different groups and explain the basis
for each group

25. Processing & Reflection
✤ 20% of what we read (read and summarise)
✤ 30% of what we hear (listen to podcasts)
✤ 40% of what we see (draw pictures, graphs, concept charts)
✤ 50% of what we say (create own podcasts)
✤ 60% of what we do (quality learning tasks)
✤ 90% of what we read, hear, see, say and do

26. Processing & Reflection
✤ When will you do this homework?
✤ Where will you do this homework?
✤ How will you do this homework?

27. Thank you...