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Classroom delivery · Level Advanced · Classroom Classroom Pacing
Running behind: cut content, not practice
Three sessions behind and practice is the tempting cut.
Prompt
Three things in class: get them doing, surface misunderstanding, make feedback specific. Being eloquent is not the goal.
Task: Three sessions behind and practice is the tempting cut.
[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:
- plan versus actual
- must-cover content
- what the practice does
- remaining hours
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- cut content that serves no objective
- keep one core exercise per objective
- move some content to post-session reading
- replan and tell the 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.
- plan versus actual
- must-cover content
- what the practice does
- remaining hours
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.
- cut content that serves no objective
- keep one core exercise per objective
- move some content to post-session reading
- replan and tell the class