Gentle but relentlessly rising expectations

For efficient teaching (teaching which results in a high proportion of embedded learning), learners should only learn new skills for which they have mastered the pre requisite skills, i.e. the teacher and SOL have gentle expectations.

In fact timely practice SOL should have gentle but relentlessly rising expectations: to teach as many small bites of learning as possible, (not at one time, but spread out over the year), whilst only ever teaching on firm learning foundations. Our cohort are no longer limited by the amount they can learn on a topic in one block - and in so many SOL they only get 1 block of teaching per year or even worse every 2 years.