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School reopening: how to accelerate catch-up learning for pupils who've fallen behind
Some pupils have lost more learning time than others during coronavirus and have fallen more behind than the rest. Curriculum experts Mary Myatt and Tom Sherrington share their key guiding principles for helping these pupils catch up.
Contents
- Identify the pupils likely to have the biggest gaps in knowledge
- Use low-stakes assessment in lessons to see if your predictions were right
- Guiding principles for effective catch-up from Mary Myatt and Tom Sherrington
- You can use a tailor-made programme
- Catch-up can take place in class
- Run after-school or lunchtime lessons
- Consider 1-on-1 or small group tutoring
- Alternative provision: how to choose and work with providers
- Closing the gap in primary schools
- Evaluating intervention strategies: advice and tracking tool
- Handwriting interventions for pupils with SEN
- Intervention strategies for English and maths (primary)
- Intervention strategies (secondary)
- Raising attainment in maths (primary)
- Reading interventions for pupils with SEN
- Research into raising achievement (secondary)
- School reopening: how to help disadvantaged pupils catch up
- Strategies to raise achievement (secondary)
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