{"id":830,"date":"2020-01-24T05:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.typing.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2022-08-29T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:23:42","slug":"manage-typing-lessons-student-learns-different-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.typing.com\/manage-typing-lessons-student-learns-different-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Manage Typing Lessons When Each Student Learns at a Different Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s an inevitable fact of teaching that students will complete the work you assign them at different paces. Without fail, one student will finish before another student is even halfway through.<\/p>\n

Every teacher learns pretty quickly that it\u2019s imperative to have a game plan for what students will do when they finish their work early. It makes sense then, that one of the greatest advantages of an online program like Typing.com, is that students can work at their own pace.<\/p>\n

Many of our teachers find that it\u2019s useful to manage student progress by assigning specific lessons to their classes each week. Assigning lessons is a good way to keep students working on the specific content you’ve chosen, and to help you keep tabs on how a given class is doing across certain skills.<\/p>\n

So what do you do if some students breeze through the day\u2019s lessons while others are slowly chugging along?<\/p>\n

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Below are some ways that you can make sure that all students are making the most of their typing time, regardless of their learning pace.<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 Provide Students with Extension Activities<\/h2>\n

One option for addressing the issue of early finishers is to have options for extension activities. These are typing related tasks that students can do once they\u2019ve finished their assigned lessons.<\/p>\n

The easiest option is to let students play one of the typing games in Typing.com<\/a> once they\u2019ve finished their work for the day.<\/p>\n

Since students love games, early finishers won\u2019t feel like they\u2019re being punished by having to do more work once they\u2019re done, but they’ll still be getting valuable practice time.<\/p>\n

Another option would be to give students a menu of early finisher tasks to choose from that all require typing.<\/p>\n

Consider some of the following options:<\/p>\n