Remedial Instruction Programme for Year 4 students

• Panel Heads: Day 2

• Remedial Instruction in Practice: Why
Remedial Instruction and How to do it 

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Participant Workbook
Remedial Instruction Programme for Year 4 students

• Panel Heads: Day 2

• Remedial Instruction in Practice: Why
Remedial Instruction and How to do it 

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Participant Workbook
Recording of Session

• This session is being recorded

• The recording may include
conversations in the Breakout
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AFTER: End of Workshop

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Panel Heads: The Course At A Glance

Session 1:
What to Expect – An Overview of Teacher Current Practices

Session 2:
Remedial Instruction in Practice – Why Remedial Instruction and
How to do it and your role 

Session 3:
Remedial Instruction Tools – Exploring the Toolkit! and how
you can support teachers

Session 4:

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What’s Next – Data Driven Decisions (Linking Remedial
Instruction with Assessment)
Starter – Quick Draw

1. Draw a medium-sized circle in the middle of your paper.

2. Draw a medium-sized square below the circle but have the top of it
touch the bottom of the circle.
3. Draw a medium-sized heart in the square.
4. Draw two smaller rectangles, one on each side of the square. They
should go the wide way not the tall way and they should touch the
sides of the square. Also, the top of each rectangle should line up
with the top of the square.
5. Draw a medium-sized triangle above the circle. The bottom of the
triangle should touch the top of the circle.
6. Draw three small stars anywhere inside the triangle.
7. Draw a small triangle in the center of the medium-sized circle.
8. Draw an arc which curves up below the small triangle.

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9. Draw two small circles above the small triangle, one slightly to the
right and one slightly to the left.
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Starter – Quick Draw – Reveal

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Today’s Session
By the end of today’s sessions, you will be able to:
• Develop a good understanding of the 7 Remedial Instruction
strategies so you can support your teachers to implement
them in their classroom

You will be successful if you can:

1. explore the need for Remedial Instruction
2. explore the 7 effective Remedial Instruction strategies
3. explore the process of Root Cause Analysis and diagnostic
tools to establish student proficiency

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4. build on your action plan to support teachers in integrating
Remedial Instruction strategies into their lessons
Link to PW
Let’s Explore
Breakout Session 1

In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Discuss questions on the importance of Remedial

Instruction
2. Outline the impact of well-planned Remedial Instruction
3. Explain the correlation between good classroom
management, effective time management, and well-
planned Remedial Instruction 

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Use the Google slides – link in chat box – 
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:
• Develop a good understanding of the 7 Remedial Instruction
strategies so you can support your teachers to implement
them in their classroom

You will be successful if you can:

1. explore the need for Remedial Instruction
2. explore the 7 effective Remedial Instruction strategies
3. explore the process of Root Cause Analysis and diagnostic
tools to establish student proficiency

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4. build on your action plan to support teachers in integrating
Remedial Instruction strategies into their lessons
Link to PW
7 Remedial Instruction Strategies

• 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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7 Remedial Instruction Strategies – What, Why, How

• Provide clear instruction of literacy components

What is it?
Explicit instruction is a way to teach skills or concepts to students using
direct, structured instruction. It helps make lessons clear by modeling for
students how to start and succeed on a task and giving them ample time to
practice.
How to do this? Why do we do this?
• Identify a clear, specific objective. • It makes higher-order thinking and
• Break the information into inquiry-based learning easier.
chunks. • There’s less load on memory.
• Model with clear explanations. • Helps students with short attention
• Verbalize the thinking process. span

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• Provide opportunities to practice. • It allows various degrees of practice
• Give feedback. • Allows you to collect and analyse data
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Let’s Explore
Breakout Session 2

In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Look at ONE Remedial Strategy 

2. Discuss the HOW and WHY of that strategy
3. Plan how you will support your teachers to integrate
this strategy into their lessons

Use the Google slides – link in chat box – 

to record your group’s thoughts. 

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Link to Google Slides
7 Remedial Instruction Strategies – What, Why, How
• Support learners to explicitly develop their communicative competence

What is it?
Communicative competence does not only refer to a language user’s
grammatical knowledge but also social knowledge. It is important to
know when to use language accurately and appropriately in order to
reach communication goals.
How to do this?
• Contextualize speaking tasks to
students' daily life Why do we do this?
• Provide opportunities for • Activates students' interest to
students to engage in role play communicate ideas
and information gap activities • Helps students to express

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• Include letter writing, note-taking thoughts and opinions
and summarizing tasks • Basic life skill
• Provide opportunities for group
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7 Remedial Instruction Strategies – What, Why, How

• Embed visual and verbal resources in lessons, to support student learning

What is it?
The use of various methods to help make core content understandable,
manageable and actionable throughout the course of the lesson.

How to do this?
 Use short videos, visuals, and graphic
organizers Why do we do this?
 Scaffolding with vocabulary • Help students make link between
 Use verbal interactions that clarify pieces of information
content. E.g. defining words in • A memory aid
context; asking right-there questions; • To increase students processing
coaching; and conducting whole- opportunities

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class, small-group, and partner
discussions

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7 Remedial Instruction Strategies – What, Why, How
• Encourage peer-assisted learning opportunities

What is it?
Peer-assisted learning is when students are paired with their classmates
regardless of their levels – with the goal to help each other to learn.

How to do this? Why do we do this?

• Assign pairs of different levels and
get the more able student to support
the other
• Students to maintain a coach-
coachee relationship
• Pairs are changed frequently to
ensure students work on a variety of
• Helps foster a trusting and safe
learning environment
• Allows students to take
ownership of their learning
• Helps students build their
interpersonal, leadership and
communication skills

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language skills

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7 Remedial Instruction Strategies – What, Why, How
• Build on students’ home language, culture, and social experiences

What is it?
The way a student learns and responses in the classroom, has so much
to do with his/her culture and social experiences at home. Therefore, for
a student to learn holistically it is important to draw from their
experiences and exposure to life.
How to do this?
Why do we do this?
• Provide opportunities for
• Breaks down barriers in
students to share about their
learning
home life
• Creates a positive learning
• Use supporting materials that are
environment
culturally contextualized
• Emotionally prepares students

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• Get the parents involved
for a better learning experience
• Attempt to understand students
• Allows students to make sense
home language and make links to
of learning
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7 Remedial Instruction Strategies – What, Why, How

• Assess language and literacy challenges, and monitor progress

What is it?
Assessment in remedial classrooms are vital to identify the learning
blocks students are experiencing and how best to support them in order to
progress. It also helps teachers evaluate the effectiveness of their
instructions/teaching.

How to do this? Why do we do this?

• First decide the type of
assessment to administer
(RCA Tool)
• Based on findings, refer to the RI
Toolkit and select the appropriate
• Helps the teacher teach
effectively
• Helps student's breakdown
learning barriers
• Supports students'

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activities to support the student progression
• Monitor student progress (AfL • Enhances students overall
Tools) learning experience
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7 Remedial Instruction Strategies – What, Why, How
• Encourage collaborative small-group learning opportunities

What is it?
The use of small groups to promote student learning. Students are
encouraged to share ideas and help each other learn while sharing
resources and their discoveries.

How to do this?
• Establish groups and assign roles
• Set clear goals and expectations
of given tasks
• Differentiate tasks
Why do we do this?
• Allows remedial students
ample time to learn at their
own pace
• Shared learning responsibility
• Provide students opportunities

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• Assess each group on their own to communicate
merit • Students are exposed to
diversity
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Today’s Session
By the end of today’s sessions, you will be able to:
• Develop a good understanding of the 7 Remedial Instruction
strategies so you can support your teachers to implement
them in their classroom

You will be successful if you can:

1. explore the need for Remedial Instruction
2. explore the 7 effective Remedial Instruction strategies
3. explore the process of Root Cause Analysis and diagnostic
tools to establish student proficiency

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4. build on your action plan to support teachers in integrating
Remedial Instruction strategies into their lessons
Link to PW
The Root Cause Analysis Process

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Let’s Explore
Breakout Session 3

In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Explore and apply ONE part of the Root Cause Analysis,

CEFR Level Testing, & Progress Checking document
2. Use the tool you are given to analyse some sample
student work
3. Based on your findings, plan which of the 7 Effective
Remedial Instruction Strategies this student would
benefit from
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:
• Develop a good understanding of the 7 Remedial Instruction
strategies so you can support your teachers to implement
them in their classroom

You will be successful if you can:

1. explore the need for Remedial Instruction
2. explore the 7 effective Remedial Instruction strategies
3. explore the process of Root Cause Analysis and diagnostic
tools to establish student proficiency

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4. build on your action plan to support teachers in integrating
Remedial Instruction strategies into their lessons
Link to PW
Let’s Explore
Breakout Session 4

In Breakout Rooms, you will:

1. Revisit your Action Plan from Day 1 AND

2. Identify steps to support your teachers in using the
tool and integrating Remedial Instruction strategies
into their lessons.

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:
• Develop a good understanding of the 7 Remedial Instruction
strategies so you can support your teachers to implement
them in their classroom

You will be successful if you can:

1. explore the need for Remedial Instruction
2. explore the 7 effective Remedial Instruction strategies
3. explore the process of Root Cause Analysis and diagnostic
tools to establish student proficiency

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4. build on your action plan to support teachers in integrating
Remedial Instruction strategies into their lessons
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Plenary
In your Participant Workbook, reflect upon today’s session:

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Community of Practice, and receiving information and updates about this course.

You will now complete the End of Workshop Questionnaire.

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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
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