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When a topic is NOT yet fully pre assessed it will contain shades of darker grey, white and pale grey squares

Here is an mp4 showing the process for one learner in one topic.

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Read about the process, rather than watch the mp4s

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  1. Create a P&P (planning and preparation) session for the date of the lesson when timely practice pre assess will happen (usually the next lesson)

  2. Open that P&P session and tap the Update Taught Layers button (there are no layers taught with timely practice) and tap Continue

  3. Assess each question of the learners' completed/partially completed assignment using

    • tick = fully correct

    • bell (best learned later) = almost any other attempt e.g. partially correct, incorrect, missed out, written a ? etc

    • reset = learner ran out of time, you think the learner didn’t see the question (e.g, small question sandwiched between larger questions, you just can’t read the learners handwriting e.g. they orginally wrote 5 they’ve overwritten with 3, or was it the other way around?)

    • once all the questions in a learners assignment are assessed, tap the floppy disk symbol and assess the next learner’s assignment

  4. Once all completed/partially completed assignments have been assessed, make a note of who has an outstanding assignment (and check you have the paper copy) and tap the Continue button

  5. Change any learners Pace for Practice, if you need to (this will ensure most students complete their assignment within a minute or two of each other)

  6. Change the nominal number of questions if you want a longer or shorter assignment, and tap to un tick the names of the learners who have an existing assignment.

  7. Leave both retrieval practice and pre assess assignments ticked (this is good practice for 2 reasons which are explained later)

  8. Tap the Create button, tap Continue

  9. When all the assignments are created, each will have a green arrow. Choose how you want to download and print them, one by one or merge them and print them in one go. Click the appropriate green arrow(s).

  10. The assignments will be found in your downloads folder.

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titleWhy find firm learning foundations before teaching with timely practice

When the teacher finds each learners firm learning foundations on a topic and uses that data to decide where to start teaching that topic - see (5) - the teacher can be confident that the learners will retain new teaching because

  • the teacher is teaching on firm learning foundations,

  • the app schedules a retrieval practice programme for each bite (layer) of new learning and

  • that when feedback needs to be given, it has the best chance of success, because the teacher and learner are entering into a feedback-dialogue and the app adjusts (reduces) the retrieval practice schedule, so that the learner is most likely to remember and apply the recent feedback.

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