Apr 2020
This is the only thing I have found that properly addresses the attainment gap for students who struggle the most with Maths. Most other initiatives help those who are expected to attain in the middle or at the top of the spectrum in school. Timely practice helps those who come to secondary school with serious confidence gaps, dyscalculia, and lacking basic numerosity. It is fully integrated into every lesson, and slowly builds them up, whilst ensuring new learning is not wasted. It suits pupils with limited short and medium term memory, as it develops ingrained fluency. It covers the curriculum, and has transformed how I teach lower prior attainers from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4, whilst also noticeably boosting their final results.
John Petry found Timely practice:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Students who have struggled with Maths before, and who wouldn't normally be expected to outperform their attainment target, do so with Timely Practice. Having taught two Maths GCSE classes from year 10 to 11 using Timely Practice, it helps them retain and memorise the skills you practice in a lesson, so each year they build their knowledge, rather than start from scratch again. This has particularly helped students with low aspirational backgrounds, as they practice less well at home. As timely practice supports them with a personalised set of questions in their lessons, these students remember more, and overcome their barriers to progress.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Timely Practice automates the process of choosing review questions. Not only that, it personalises the review questions depending on each students journey towards mastering a skill. As 15-20 minutes at the start of your lesson are then set, all that is required to plan within a lesson is responses to misconceptions raised by the practice, and a small, manageable chunk of new learning.”
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