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Classroom delivery · Level Advanced · Classroom Remedial Teaching

Retakes: keeping people in

Some fail and simply disappear.

Prompt

Three things in class: get them doing, surface misunderstanding, make feedback specific. Being eloquent is not the goal.

Task: Some fail and simply disappear.

[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:
   - how many failed and why
   - which objective
   - time available
   - their willingness
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- separate no time from did not learn
- reteach only the missed objective
- a thirty-minute diagnostic
- the retake standard equals the original

[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 interaction

What to state before it starts

Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.

  • how many failed and why
  • which objective
  • time available
  • their willingness

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.

  • separate no time from did not learn
  • reteach only the missed objective
  • a thirty-minute diagnostic
  • the retake standard equals the original