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It’s important to

schedule a “timely practice” episode every lesson

because the timely practice episode (5-25 minutes) does many valuable time sensitive “jobs” for teacher and learners. These jobs are traditionally hard for the teacher to schedule sufficient time for:

• Learners review the teacher’s assessment of their last lesson’s assignment and

  • self correct when they can and

  • get personalised feedback when they need it and

  • complete their new retrieval practice questions.

• The teacher has far more time to give personalised feedback to learners because

  • learners are independently engaged in completing their new assignment which

  • finds existing firm learning foundations and

  • efficiently schedules retrieval practice questions which

  • embeds all prior learning ever more deeply into long term memory.

In most classrooms, each of these jobs is allocated very little time, yet each is valuable in ensuring that learning doesn’t become forgetting.

See trainLearners (1) and trainLearners (3) for more information on this.