Spaced Practice, in Practice

Here is a post from another blog on the use of 'spaced practice' whereby topics/concepts are revisited over time along with low stakes testing to help the learning to be retained.
The original post describing the practice is here: https://goo.gl/8tt41d 

This newer post (https://goo.gl/55K9jQ) desribes how the teacher has achieved this in 'real life' rather than just in theory.

It begins:
"Firstly, we introduced ten-minute recall sessions at the beginning of every lesson. This meant that we could test students’ knowledge effectively without creating extra workload. However, using some of the principles of interleaving, these sessions would not necessarily be based on the text being studied in the lesson; they would be based on knowledge taught in the lesson, week, month, term, or even several terms before. So, the beginning of a lesson might involve a recall task focused on Macbeth, then the main body of the lesson would be focused on Jekyll and Hyde. With these ten-minute recall sessions in every lesson, we could have mini revision sessions for every unit, almost every week."

The 10-minute recall sessions took the form of:
1) Multiple choice tests
2) Filling in the blanks (from Knowledge Organisers) 
3) Filling in the blanks (quotations)
4) Quickfire quotations
5) Interleaving homework

Do read the full blog for more detail! https://goo.gl/55K9jQ