Phase 1 top tips

Owned by Lesley Goddard
Last updated: Feb 23, 2024

“We are finding out what will be easiest and most valuable to teach next” and

“Whilst we are doing this, everybody will: remember what they already know more deeply and will find new learning easier”

The section Already Learned and Remembered? describes what the app is finding.

You will find:

  • some questions which are easy or even very easy for you,

  • some questions which you can answer or almost answer,

  • some questions which are too hard for you.

Look at your assessed assignment and see

  • all the questions you got correct - be pleased with yourself - knowing you a question right will help embed it more deeply

  • all the questions you didn’t get fully correct - don’t get upset - acknowledging errors, will make learning easier when your teacher begins to teach you this topic.

Look at your new assignment - it will only have questions in the Already Learned and Remembered? section (for the first few days of timely practice).

Try to read and answer all the questions … but if you are stuck you may:

  • ask a teacher to read a word/phrase/question to you,

  • ask the teacher to write down what you say (scribe for you),

  • write a ? in the answer space,

  • write a message to your teacher e.g. “I forgot what median means” or circle the word median and put a ? in the answer space,

  • you are NOT allowed to ask your peers/your teacher/other adults to

    • tell you the answer,

    • read the question and help you more by pointing to something on the page,

Please don’t try and “sneak extra help” from teaching assistants - their job is to help you learn, not help you have the correct answers on the page.

If your peers/your teacher/other adults give you more help than allowed, it will make it harder for you to learn.

The app isn’t judging you, it only wants to find out what you’ve Already Learned and Remembered