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Re-teach

A third of the class missed it, and tomorrow is in fourteen hours.

Half the class missed it. Here is what to do tomorrow, and which mistake each group made.

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When you’d reach for it

The results are in and they are bad. The honest options at that point are re-teach the same way but slower, or move on and hope — and both are guesses, because "twelve students got it wrong" does not tell you whether they got it wrong for one reason or four.

Re-teach reads the exit ticket you just ran and splits the class by the mistake each group actually made. Each group gets what they believe, who is in it, and something to do about it: the part of the lesson that addresses it, and practice on exactly that.

How it works

1

Run an exit ticket

That is the input. Re-teach reads real answers from your own class and nothing else.

2

Open the plan

One card per misconception: the belief, the students in that group, and the wrong answers that put them there.

3

Act on a group

Jump to the part of the lesson that addresses that misconception, and assign or print practice aimed at it.

Why not just ask a chatbot

Grouping by score tells you who is behind. Grouping by misconception tells you what they believe — and those two groups need different lessons tomorrow. Doing this requires items whose wrong answers were authored to diagnose something specific, which is a property of a corpus, not of a prompt.

What it does not do

Better to know now than to find out on a Sunday.

  • It needs an exit ticket first. With no run it says so and stops — it will not invent a diagnosis.

  • It needs a class-sized set of answers. Below eight takers you get the raw results instead of a plan, because three answers do not make a group and a phantom group is worse than no plan.

  • Assigning practice to a group needs the session to have been attached to a class. Run without one — which is the normal day-zero case — and you get the practice to print instead.

What it needs: At least one exit ticket run on that standard, from your own class. Available across Grades 4–12.

What it leads to

Re-teach is complete on its own. These are the other four, and the moment each one becomes worth having.

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