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Every class – and every pupil – is different. The challenge of meeting the needs of all learners simultaneously has never been easy but this challenge has been greatly exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Widescale and prolonged school closures mean that teachers will need a new and effective toolkit for first assessing and then addressing, gaps in pupils’ learning.
This course addresses reasons why pupils may become vulnerable to underachievement and explores a range of proven and practical strategies to accelerate the catch-up process. By ascertaining exactly what pupils have remembered over time, we can intervene to plug gaps in learning and provide appropriate support and challenge for each pupil.
Aims and outcomes
- Understand which pupils are vulnerable to underachievement and how to intervene effectively.
- Learn how to quickly assess what pupils have retained from prior learning and what needs to be readdressed.
- Learn how to make the best use of limited teaching time in order to create maximum progress for all learners.
- Become familiar with a range of proven and practical pedagogies to accelerate pupil progress.
Course content
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Unit 1: Understanding where and what achievement gaps may exist
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Unit 2: Using assessment to identify specific gaps in learning
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Unit 3: Curriculum planning to support effective differentiation and catch-up
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Unit 4: Practical classroom differentiation approaches