Pacing

Pacing

Each lesson in the Corrective Mathematics module contains many exercises. Therefore, students are taught quickly, but not so quickly as to rush them into making errors. Pacing is a strategy that helps teachers to work quickly yet efficiently on each exercise of a lesson. The rate at which a teacher asks questions and students give answers in class determines how quickly a lesson goes. It also helps teachers determine how many lessons students finish in a week, a few months and a whole school year.  

Here are a few points to keep in mind to get the right pacing in practice:  

• Thoroughly review each lesson beforehand to reduce the necessity of reading every word in the exercise while presenting.  
• The pacing goal for student responses is ten to fourteen responses per minute.
• Speak in a way that indicates the presented information is important. 
• Prioritise firming students on each activity rather than rushing to finish the lesson in the given time. 

When the pacing is right, teachers can teach more in a given timeframe, keep the lesson at a smooth and good speed, and achieve better student retention and attention as well as fewer managerial difficulties.