4 proven methods to significantly raise attainment
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assessment for learning tells the teacher how well learners have learned something and so teachers can then act, if need be, to improve that learning or teach something harder on the firm learning foundations the teacher has established that the learner has.
feedback is a process that enhances learning by providing learners with the opportunity to improve their current or recent attainment, by comparing with an ideal.
mastery learning requires teachers to hold back from teaching harder knowledge/skills/methods until the learner has mastered the prerequisite knowledge/skills/methods.
retrieval practice requires that practice questions are spaced out over time - rather than done in a block just after teaching - so that the learning can be recalled for longer.
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We strongly encourage teachers to use a tightly spiralled scheme of learning - a spiral of gently rising expectations - and teach only a small bite - a layer - from each topic topic per curriculum spiral. The first spiral through the curriculum is likely to be slower than subsequent spirals, because of the time that must be spent on pre assess. |
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We like to think of all of our layers layers as being scaffolding over time: as learners master a layer, the learner builds a chunk which becomes the learners' internal scaffolding, and so the teacher doesn't need to provide external scaffolding to teach the next layer. Sometimes however, we provide 2 or more layers: one without scaffolding and one with very similar question which includes some of the scaffolding of the lesson. In the future we hope to have the app automate the process of moving from the layer with to the layer without scaffolding or v.v. |
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