tpVocab
i.e. timely practice vocabulary
- 1 (0) Key vocabulary: BELL, cooldown, FOA, FOB, layer, our cohort, tpTeach, warmup
- 2 (1) Categorising questions
- 3 (2) The 3 timely practice app tabs
- 3.1 Classes/Learners' Tab
- 3.1.1 Level for Learner
- 3.1.2 Pace for Practice
- 3.2 Global Progress Tab
- 3.3 Planning and Preparation Tab
- 3.1 Classes/Learners' Tab
- 4 (3) 4 types of P&P sessions: Warmup, tpTeach, Cooldown and Homework
(0) Key vocabulary: BELL, cooldown, FOA, FOB, layer, our cohort, tpTeach, warmup
BELL: stands for BEst Learned Later. See assessANDfeedback(4)
cooldown: lessons where retrieval practice (and possibly more pre-assess) without teaching with timely practice is done prior to each school holiday. See planTeaching(6)
FOA: feedback on attempt. See assessANDfeedback(4)
FOB: feedback on blank. See assessANDfeedback(4)
layer: a small bite of learning on a topic. See tpVocab(1)
tpTeach: most lessons in timely practice are of this type which includes retrieval practice and/or pre assess within timely practice assignments and plan new teaching with the assistance of timely practice
our cohort: learners in the long tail of underachievement, those unlikely to achieve a grade 4 or above at GCSE.
warmup: pre assess with timely practice (see assessment and feedback), without teaching with timely practice (see plan teaching). Instead do fast track pre-assess (possibly) or do pre-assess instead of lesson warm up whilst teaching from the current SOL (probably).
(1) Categorising questions
Categories: topic themes contain topics, which contain layers, which contain questions
(2) The 3 timely practice app tabs
Classes/Learners' Tab
This tab is where the app stores data about learners within classes.
Global Progress Tab
Think of this as SOL+…
Planning and Preparation Tab
The Planning and Preparation tab does the most work. It helps the teacher ensure they are teaching in a manner which most efficiently embeds learning in low attaining or underachieving learners (those who aren’t expected to gain a grade 5 or above at GCSE).
(3) 4 types of P&P sessions: Warmup, tpTeach, Cooldown and Homework
Each type allows the teacher to create and download a timely practice assignment and has the other necessary steps for its function
| Warmup | tpTeach | Cooldown | Homework |
---|---|---|---|---|
Edit Taught | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Assess t.p. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Plan Teaching | No | Yes | No | No |
Create tp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Download t.p. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Although warmup and homework have the same 3 necessary steps: Assess t.p. Create t.p. and Download t.p. they are different because the questions in the homework assignment will never come from fragile layers (recently taught or recently needing feedback)
Warmup
During the warm up process timely practice finds sufficient learning foundations so that future teaching is very likely to become retained learning and hence firm learning foundations for the next teaching of each topic.
The warm up process is several pre assess only assignments. The app is responsive, so e.g. setting 4 warm up assignments at one time will NOT give us enough data, instead do 4 rounds of assignments, each round has 3 parts: create warm up + learners complete warm up + teacher assess warm up
See Auto pre-assess for choices about the warm up process.
Warmup assignments can also be used to help learners catch up with retrieval practice as well as pre assess.
tpTeach
Teach on firm learning foundations + don’t allow teaching to become forgetting by using smart, personalised retrieval practice
Lesson planning with timely practice has 3 benefits
assessment for learning data is accurate, easy to use and always done in advance,
teaching will always be on firm learning foundations,
teaching in one lesson is automatically followed up with smart, personalised retrieval practice beginning the next lesson.
Retrieval practice is repeated to stretch the durability of recall-ability,
is responsive to the need for feedback and
the time used for retrieval practice gives the teacher a block of time to concentrate on giving personalised feedback.
Auto pre-assess will usually continue during tpTeach and cooldown
Cooldown
Cooldown precedes school holidays (or other known breaks e.g. work experience) and allows the teacher to ensure that teaching before a school holiday stands the best chance of being sufficiently embedded in long term memory that very little extra feedback is required after the holiday.