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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 always 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 "quite a bit of" (i.e. ensure the learner would get full marks in an exam)
- or decide that some layers are "best learned later" ( i.e. it is better use of teacher and learner lesson time to teach this work later) (see
How long? below).
- for some topics we may find that the learner doesn't have any layers they "know a bit" (the learner has either layers they "know already" 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).
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- no more pre assess will be required,
- the teacher will be teaching on firm learning foundations.
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The finding and firming learning foundations phase can last between a few weeks (very low attaining learners) and a little over a term (higher attaining learners). |
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