Challenge, deliberate practice, and interleaving are techniques that can help students learn computing skills. Challenge provides goals tailored to different ability levels. Deliberate practice involves revisiting skills in multiple ways to reinforce learning. Interleaving intersperses different topics in lessons and tests to improve long-term retention of information. These techniques will be applied at Lady Lumley's School by setting skills starters and short tests at the beginning of lessons to challenge students and strengthen their computing knowledge.

1. Chris Sharples @gr8ict
Head of Computing at Lady Lumley’s School
www.gr8computing.com
Challenge,
Deliberate Practice,
and Interleaving

2. 1. “A Rising
Tide lifts all
ships”

3. Challenge for All:
same goal, different pathways/levels
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4. Examples from shared text book
1. Deliberate practice and the
power of three…
Examples - I have made sure we have
visited key coding skills 3 times in
different ways this year / we are doing
3 NEA practice assessments / and so
on…

6. Examples from shared text book
2. Interleaving…
What we are going to do - We are going to have short
tests as starters to lessons at beginning of our KS3 theory
units next year. Should help students remember more
with fortnightly lessons.

11. Targets
Page Numbers
Re-wind HLs
Skills starters
Re-align lessons