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The Beauty of One-pagers & RETRIEVAL PRACTICE

 Thanks to Betsy Potash, the author of the marvellous space nowsparkcreativity.com,  I have discovered and come to love one pagers- the response one pager, for example TedTalk one pagers like these:

or hexagonal thinking templates, such as this one:
 

Both types are a wonderful way to afford student autonomy and creativity at the same time providing a framework to harness and channel those time and content-wise. They are much loved, universal yet personal tools that can be used to process and produce  language and content for numerous activities- listening and reading comprehension, class presentations and vocabulary work. (If you want to find out more, check out my presentation on one-pagers that I delivered during the recent IATEFL Poland conference- here)


 Still, it is retrieval practice one-pagers that I find most useful these days. You may ask what these are- they are simple grids or tables where students put eg. vocabulary they manage to recall from last lesson, last week further back (see a sample vocab grid I created here). Such one-pagers are effective low- or no-stakes activities that promote true learning, and when done together with spacing, interleaving and feedback-driven metacognition that are the foundations of powerful teaching and learning, they are key to our students succeeding- retrieval practice will definitely be the topic of my next blog entry- stay tuned!
Meanwhile, have a look at this wakelet collection and view the recording on my webinar on one-pagers here:)

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