Some students say that has slowed the pace of instruction.
Instructors of teenagers with Asperger's tend to slow down the pace of instruction, breaking down tasks so they can be worked on one at a time.
While Katya's father is impressed by the ambitious pace of instruction, Katya, at the beginning of the school year, seems to be in a state of saucer-eyed shock.
This cannot occur in the classroom due to time constraints, especially when the instructor controls the pace of instruction and under largely lecture format contexts.
Then it could monitor understanding of each topic, and adjust the pace of instruction so they're never forced to proceed while still confused.
Some approaches, such as increasing the pace of instruction and encouraging hard work, might offer lasting benefits to students, says Brian Jacob, an economist at Harvard University.
The students, and the students alone, determined the pace of instruction.
Their worst legacy has been top-down systems in which wonks, with little feel for the game, micromanage the pace of instruction, and quash discussion.
Consider a report published in 2004 that showed third and fourth graders who received "an extreme type of direct instruction [in a science unit] in which the goals, the materials, the examples, the explanations, and the pace of instruction [were] all teacher controlled" did better than their classmates who were allowed to design their own procedures.
Vary the pace of instruction.
