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Classroom delivery · Level Advanced · Classroom Classroom Pacing
Mixed pace: neither waiting nor panic
Some finish in ten minutes, others need forty.
Prompt
Three things in class: get them doing, surface misunderstanding, make feedback specific. Being eloquent is not the goal.
Task: Some finish in ten minutes, others need forty.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- the exercise and difficulty
- time distribution
- extension tasks
- assistants
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- faster learners get a harder version, not more of the same
- slower learners get a minimum version
- pair them with a defined helper role
- which gaps belong after class
[Process]
1. Read the room before following the plan
2. Surface misunderstanding with questions
3. Feedback on behaviour and next step, never on the person
4. Separate tasks by level
5. Leave two minutes for their recap
[Output]
Reading the room, questions, feedback, tiers, close.
[Do not]
- Never embarrass anyone
- Never 'this is so simple'
- Do not skip practice to keep pace
- 'Any questions' is not interactionWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- the exercise and difficulty
- time distribution
- extension tasks
- assistants
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- faster learners get a harder version, not more of the same
- slower learners get a minimum version
- pair them with a defined helper role
- which gaps belong after class