Your target

The eighteen targets

Three targets in each of the six lesson visit areas. You work on one all year.

Pick an area. Its three targets come to the front.

Area 1

Curriculum intent and sequencing

Lessons that build in a deliberate order, so today makes sense of last week.

A1T1
Reconnect what today depends on
In Launch and Establish, develop how I reconnect learners with the knowledge and ideas that today's learning depends on, so that new work feels connected rather than separate.
A1T1 · Three ways in
1. Write four quick recall questions on the knowledge today actually depends on, not on last lesson in general.
2. Ask them in the first five minutes, in writing or on whiteboards, so you see every answer.
3. Say out loud where today sits, then teach the new material straight off the back of it.
As a result, learners meet new work as a continuation rather than a fresh start.
A1T2
Show the journey so far
In Establish and Apply, develop how learners recognise the journey from earlier learning into the current task, so that they can explain why this learning matters now.
A1T2 · Three ways in
1. Open with a one slide map of the unit, marked with where this lesson sits.
2. Ask two learners to say the link between last week and today in one sentence.
3. Return to the map at the end and ask what the next step will have to be.
As a result, learners can explain why this learning matters now.
A1T3
Check the knowledge you assume
In Launch, Establish and Demonstrate, develop how I identify and respond when assumed prior knowledge is not secure, so that gaps do not become barriers to later learning.
A1T3 · Three ways in
1. Pick the one thing today assumes learners already know.
2. Write a single multiple choice question about it where each wrong answer reveals a different misunderstanding.
3. Ask it early, teach to what the answers show, and ask it again before they leave.
As a result, learners are not held back later by a gap nobody spotted.

Where each target sits in LEAD

Every target names the stages of a lesson it works in. Pick a stage.

Curriculum intent and sequencing

Reconnect what today depends on

Show the journey so far

Check the knowledge you assume

Where each target sits in LEAD