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- learners may have layers which they "know" already - these will be "fast tracked" by the app so the learner answers very few questions on these layers. What the learners already "know" is helpful to the teacher when planning what to teach to the class on a topic
- learners may have a few layers within each topic that they know "a bit" - they have some knowledge, they remember some vocabulary, but they would not be able to "answer an exam question and get full marks". The pre assess of the topic, the subsequent timely practice assignments and the first teaching of the topic all aim to
- either increase the learners independence and accuracy to mastery - for layers which they know "a bit" (i.e. ensure the learner would get full marks in an exam)
- or delete for now, some layers which the learner would be "best learned later" (i.e. it is better use of teacher and learner lesson time to teach this work later - since the teacher will be doing spaced teachingwith a more tightly spiralled curriculum, this is likely to be only a term later)
- for some topics we may find that the learner doesn't have any layers they know "a bit" (the learner has either layers they already "know" and/or layers they don't know) - the task is simpler, teach the next layer within the topic (providing the learner has the appropriate pre-requisite skills) As the learner does their timely practice, they will come to master that layer.
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