Write it down

Ask your students immediately after you finish an explanation to write down their version of it, so that they have to recollect immediately what they have retained. Then, ask them to pass their paper to their left/right mate, so that they can read it and give them feedback about what they missed/what they wrote in addition to their own work. Make it only by underlining with two different colours. Then, pass the paper again and do the same process a second time. Randomly ask someone to read it out loud, then ask randomly if there is anything further to add, or any mistake to correct. In this way they will already remember the whole content and you’ll know they are keeping the pace. Time consuming? You don’t have to do it in every lesson: just choose it for the more complex ones.

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