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Teaching interventions: Pre and over learning

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The one teaching intervention that could most benefit a range of students, including EAL and SEN, is – according to Daniel Sobel – the use of pre-learning and over-learning. He discusses how these concepts can be introduced

I have mentioned “pre-learning” and “over-learning” a few times in previous articles for SecEd (see below for a link to my previous articles).

I once conducted a very unscientific poll among the Inclusion Expert team, asking the question: “If you could choose one intervention to supplement teaching all over the country, which would it be?”

I was unsurprised when the answer came back. All those questioned agreed on one clear, simple idea – do pre and over-learning.

When I mentioned this response to a group of headteachers, I was interested to see that they agreed – this was the intervention of choice. They noted the simplicity of this intervention, and that it requires neither specialist technology nor equipment.

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