Remedial Instruction Programme for Year 4 students

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• What’s Next?: Making Data Driven Decisions

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Participant Workbook
Remedial Instruction Programme for Year 4 students

•Panel Heads: Day 4

• What’s Next?: Making Data Driven Decisions

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Recording of Session

• This session is being recorded

• The recording may include
conversations in the Breakout
Rooms

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 Say Hello!

In the chat box...

Share one ‘aha’ moment from

the first 3 days about;
1. your own work in the
classroom

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2. supporting your teachers

*Link to PW
Support Network

THROUGHOUT:
Google Classroom

DURING: Participant Workbook (PW)

+ Google Slides (Breakout Rooms)

AFTER: End of Workshop

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Questionnaire (EWQ) – online link
Starter
Put A Finger Down – Remedial Instruction Edition
Hold up one hand – all fingers up.

Now, put a finger down if…

1. you feel more confident with Remedial Instruction

2. you feel you have deeper knowledge about the 7 effective practices of
Remedial Instruction
3. you feel you need strategies for formative assessment in your classroom

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4. you feel more confident in managing your remedial classroom
5. You feel more confident about giving effective feedback and supporting
your teachers
Today’s Session
By the end of today’s sessions, you will be able to:

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Link to PW
7 Effective Practices of RI - Recap

• Provide clear instruction of literacy components

• Support learners to explicitly develop their communicative competence
• Embed visual and verbal resources in lessons, to support student learning
• Encourage peer-assisted learning opportunities
• Build on students’ home language, culture, and social experiences
• Assess language and literacy challenges, and monitor progress
• Encourage collaborative small-group learning opportunities

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Adapted from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017)

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Effective Assessment for Learning (AfL) Strategies
(Adapted from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2020)

1. Clarify learning goals and success criteria (RI 1)

2. Integrate feedback
3. Use summative assessments for formative purposes (RI 6)
4. Engage students as owners of their own learning (RI 4)
5. Give students time to revise a piece of work once they have received
feedback
6. Teach students how to use assessment information to improve their work
(RI6)
7. Provide opportunities, and support, for students to engage in
self-assessment
8. Build students’ skills through peer assessment opportunities (RI4, 7)

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9. Create occasions for students to showcase their work to other audiences
(RI 7)
Let’s Explore
Breakout Session 1
In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Look at 3 AfL Strategies AND

2. Discuss:
a) When in your lesson can you integrate it?
b) How will you integrate it?
c) How can you support your teachers to do the same?

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Use the Google slides – link in chat box –
to record your group’s thoughts.
Link to Google Slides
Let’s Explore

Breakout Session 2

In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Read 2 different scenarios that a teacher is facing

AND
2. Help this teacher to overcome her challenges by
using your learnings so far!

Use the Google slides – link in chat box –

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to record your group’s thoughts.
Link to Google Slides
Today’s Session
By the end of today’s sessions, you will be able to:

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Link to PW
Let’s Explore

Breakout Session 3
In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Identify all the data points you have AND

2. How to make sense of this data WHILE
3. Exploring ways to monitor your student’s progress AND
4. Identifying areas in which your teachers need more
support

Use the Google slides – link in chat box –

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to record your group’s thoughts.
Link to Google Slides
Today’s Session
By the end of today’s sessions, you will be able to:

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Link to PW
Let’s Recap
AfL Tools and
Strategies
Year 4 Root Cause
Scheme of Analysis Tool
Work

7 Effective RI
Practices
LO Tool

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RI Toolkit Classroom
Management
Strategies
Review: Learnings & Key Messages
Actively participate in
your Community of
Practice via Google Classroom. This
Use your Action Plan in supporting
will help you to coach and mentor
your teachers to implement and
your teachers as they implement this
monitor this programme.
programme, and you can support
each other through the whole
process.

The Remedial Instruction Toolkit is

ready for your teachers and you, Use the Remedial Instruction Lesson
filled with activities and ideas to use Observation Tool for developmental
with remedial students, and is linked feedback. Note that this will also be

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to CEFR, SKPMg2, the Schemes of used by SISC+ when observing your
Work for Year 4, and the Year 4 Get teachers.
Smart Book.

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Review: Learnings & Key Messages

The Root Cause Analysis, CEFR Level

Testing and Progress Checking document
as well as the Toolkit are designed
to support your teachers as both of you
determine the challenges your
remedial students are facing. Using these
leads to continuous
assessment and differentiation in planning.
Classroom Management and Time
Management – Identifying the best place
to undertake remedial support, best
practices, and how your teachers and you
can do this effectively in lessons are
included in the Toolkit activities.

Monitoring and Evaluation of remedial

Feedback is essential at all levels of
students – the goal is for your teachers and
the programme – from yourselves, from
you to use the Toolkit to support remedial
SISC+, from Master Trainers, from Teachers
students so they can move from one level
– all lines and channels of communication
of proficiency to the next e.g., Pre-A1 to

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need to be open and guided by a growth
Low A1, or Low A1 to Mid A1, etc.
mindset.
‘Progress, not perfection’.

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Today’s Session
By the end of today’s sessions, you will be able to:

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Link to PW
Let’s Explore

Breakout Session 4

In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Complete your Action Plan to support your teachers in

implementing this programme AND
2. Develop a plan to share the knowledge and materials
from these sessions with your school community

Use the Google slides – link in chat box –

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to record your group’s thoughts.
Link to Google Slides
Today’s Session
By the end of today’s sessions, you will be able to:

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Link to PW
Plenary

In your Participant Workbook, answer the questions,

to reflect upon today’s session.
Write down TWO things that you are going to do
differently in your lessons and in supporting your
teachers, as a result of today.

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How are you going to stay connected with each
other and carry on sharing best practices?

*Link to PW Glaser: Reflecting 21

Session Evaluation

Don’t forget to check out your Google Classroom for sharing, building your
Community of Practice, and receiving information and updates about this
course.

You will now complete the End of Workshop Questionnaire.

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Link to PW 22
End of Workshop Questionnaire Administration
Thank you for your active participation. We hope you will
benefit from today’s training.

In order to serve you better in future workshops, and to

hear your honest feedback, we would like to invite you to
take the End of Workshop Questionnaire, using the QR
code or link, provided below, or in the chat box.

This survey is strictly anonymous, not linked to your email

in any way, and there is no need to provide any personal
information of any kind.

Thank you.

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