.5 Premediation

Now real time remediation is very powerful, so why don't we do it all the time? Because in the system that we now have, teachers can do whatever individualization they can do thirty at a time. The system doesn't allow for thekind of individualization that Madeline's system provided. Individualization doesn't necessarily require that some people go this way or that way and some people go faster and some people go slower and everyone goes plugging along at their own rate. Individualization doesn't require that.Individualization doesn't allow for a lecture on Monday and then a lecture on Wednesday and where some people as a result of the Monday lecture are immediately ready for Wednesday. Some people may have to have a supplementary presentation and then they're ready, some people may have to have some small group discussion to get ready, or some people may require a lot of individual study and they're ready, but eventually everyone is ready for the next common experience on Wednesday. That's a different model of individualization than if you have lots of time in-between classes for additional help. But we don't have that kind of system. We shouldn't blame the teacher for not doing it, blame the system for not providing it. The next thing we need to talk about is premediation. Premediation is different

from remediation in very simply, PRE rather than RE. Premediation means that you are trying to figure out what is going to go wrong before it goes wrong. In other words, a teacher who has had the experience of knowing that something didn't work, can then take steps ahead of time to make sure that it does work. You spend extra time in anticipation of this being a tough thing to teach.

Premediation is easier than remediation, because it can be done easily thirty students at a time. With remediation teachers can kind of say, "Well there is a limit to how much I can do because the system hasn't given me the time and resources to do it." Premediation is a lot easier because teachers, if they understand the sticking points of certain material, they can choose to spend more time on those points and anticipate it. So premediation is a much stronger and a more practical kind of thing if we get organized to do it. A third element is that frequent alternatives to annual accountability and promotion. There is no reason to wait till the end of the year to figure out that a kid is behind. As a matter of fact I know too many schools where it becomes a big deal whether a kid is going to get promoted or not and parents don't know until the last minute. Parents should be right up to the minute from the time that there is any question about the promotion of their child. Kids in individual subjects in junior high and high school should know anytime they are in jeopardy of failing. We need to have enough feedback and encouragement in the system to make sure that everybody knows what is going on and when that feedback and encouragement is not there, the system is off.

	What is the difference remediation and premediation?	Answer Here
	Mrs. Smith's class is next door to Mrs. Jordan's class. Mrs. Smith is noticing troubles that some of her students are having much like the troubles that some of Mrs. Jordan's students are having when it comes to reading. How might Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jordan plan together for the premediation of these students?	Answer Here