Poor AS results

[bettina46]

I need your advice. My daughter got U at Maths and Biology AS, C at Sociology and A at French. I didn't know what to say. She had all AA at GCSE except for Bs at English Language and English Literature. English is our second language. We've lived in UK for 5 years and DD started her education here from Year 8 with a basic knowledge of English. She is very good at languages, she's learning Japanese at home and thinks about. studying it at SOAS. Last year she did excepionally well at sciences - A at Triple Sciences so taking Biology for A level was an easy choice. She also wanted to take Chemistry but it was in the same block as French so she had to take Sociology instead.
Her school wants her to continue French and choose other subjects. DD is depressed and doesn't know what to do now. I have always thought she's the academic type so I'm really suprised with her poor results.

I 'd think it is probably the best way to develop independent learning. It is great that there are teachers like you

X posted. He is autistic, has ADHD, a sensory and a language disorder. So in class for a combination of reasons his learning might be hit and miss. He might misunderstand something. At home it is often unclear where the blank spots are and i have no visibility of what goes on in class. Doing it in reverse order would focus his attention on higher order skills. Basically it would allow him to absorb more. He is doing A/A in a grammar school in sciences, but through very hard work at home and to increase the 'productivity' for exam revision we have to change something and the flipped learning might be the thing - learn it right the first time* IYSWIM

That's exactly why we're doing it! (And because it frees classroom time up for really cool practicals and projects!)

Yes, higher order skills, and addressing all of the difficulties you mention to differing extents in different children - we're early days really, but it is appearing to be a truly personalised approach to teaching (which is manageable when you've got 32 in a class).

Thanks for your input, it's really helpful.

If he's gcse level, there's a brilliant bloke on www.my-gcsescience.com making videos specifically for AQA sciences.

thx :)