How to Get Students to Do Work at the Level They Need to Make Progress

I'm starting to understand your argument a bit more now. Lower achieving students will become disillusioned if you're constantly moving them on to stuff they don't understand. What we need to be doing is getting each student, each group of students doing work at the level they need to make progress. I would say that even with the most highest achieving students if it was a particularly difficult thing and they did only get seven of the eight bits covered it is far better to be totally confident in those seven bits than to cover all eight. You're going to get better exam results with kids who are more confident in what they do know. John Mason says teaching takes place in time but learning takes place over