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You have learnt about what good pacing is about, which is to help as many of your students as possible to understand and keep up with your teaching in the classroom. No matter how good your initial lesson plan is, it is highly likely you will have to adjust your pacing or even totally change your teaching strategy, especially if you have been listening to students’ responses and checking what students have learnt. For example, if Noxolo knows that most students know what is a polygon and naming of the polyhedron, she will have to teach her lesson in a different way. There could be different ways to know whether to adjust the pacing during a lesson. | You have learnt about what good pacing is about, which is to help as many of your students as possible to understand and keep up with your teaching in the classroom. No matter how good your initial lesson plan is, it is highly likely you will have to adjust your pacing or even totally change your teaching strategy, especially if you have been listening to students’ responses and checking what students have learnt. For example, if Noxolo knows that most students know what is a polygon and naming of the polyhedron, she will have to teach her lesson in a different way. There could be different ways to know whether to adjust the pacing ''during'' a lesson. | ||
Now discuss these two questions below on making connections between what you have learnt about differentiation through group work and AfL, and lesson pacing: | Now discuss these two questions below on making connections between what you have learnt about differentiation through group work and AfL, and lesson pacing: | ||