Students cannot make standard progress

When lessons are not completed in standard time, students cannot make standard progress. Lessons are designed and structured to provide students to ensure that they can learn, practise and reinforce their knowledge of content, acquire and refine skills, and demonstrate mastery. When lessons are not completed in standard time, students don’t get enough repetitions and practise and do not get to apply skills during independent practise. Students are unable to achieve mastery and fall farther behind.

What happens

The problem is compounded

The teacher must re-teach parts of or entire lessons to ensure that students are firm when they have not mastered the content. When lessons are incomplete or progression is too slow, students find it difficult to follow instructional concepts when lessons occur too far apart for ideas to be linked. Ultimately, this affects students’ ability to make standard growth.