How it works

Practice creates evidence. Evidence shows you what’s next.

Pinpoint is built on one loop: do the work, read what it shows, name the one thing that is holding you back, work on that, and check again. Here is exactly how it runs.

Learning evidence · Teacher observation

Strength: Accurate with ratio notation, percentages and fraction arithmetic.
Concern: In word problems, sets up the method from the wrong quantity: the total instead of the difference, the wrong whole.
Next step: Precision Session: setting up the method before calculating. Re-check in the next Exit Check.

Illustrative. The fields are the ones printed in every Learning Dossier.

The Pinpoint Progress Path™

Five steps. Every week.

It is the sequence every student’s week runs through, so a difficulty is caught while it is still small — and nobody has to guess what to do about it.

01
Practice
Guided and independent work in every weekly lesson.
02
Performance Visibility
That work is read topic by topic, not just marked.
03
Pinpoint
One specific weak skill or misconception is named.
04
Precision Sessions
A small session on exactly that skill.
05
Progress
The same skill is checked again, and the result is recorded.

Inside a weekly lesson

2 hours, the same eight-part sequence.

Every regular lesson follows this run sheet, in classes of at most 8. It is why the same things get checked every week, and why a difficulty shows up in the record rather than in someone’s memory.

01ReviewWhat is still holding from last week, and what has slipped.
02DiagnoseA short check that shows who is ready for the new topic.
03TeachThe concept, explained to the group in front of us.
04PractiseGuided, then independent work, with the teacher circulating.
05Review mistakesErrors are opened up in class rather than only marked.
06Exit CheckA short close that records what each student left with.
07ChallengeDeeper application for students who are ready for it.
08Follow upHomework, a teacher note, and anything worth raising.

Performance visibility

Not a grade. A reading of where you stand.

Each lesson produces something we can read. Read together, it points to a specific skill rather than a vague worry about a subject.

Evidence captured each lesson

Diagnostic score
In-class accuracy
Exit Check score
Homework completion
A weak-topic note, where one is needed

Teacher observation

Strength: What went well, in the teacher’s own words.
Concern: The specific thing that isn’t holding yet.
Next step: What happens about it in the coming week.

The platform supports the teacher. It doesn’t replace one.

Precision Sessions

When one skill is the problem, eight is still too many.

A weekly class is small enough to teach well. It isn’t small enough to sit with one student through the exact step they keep getting wrong. That is a different session, and we run it separately.

Weekly class, maximum

Precision Session, maximum

1 hour, on a single skill, topic or misconception.
At most 3 students, so nobody can sit quietly at the back.
Recommended from lesson evidence and the teacher’s own observations.
1 credit each month. Credits don’t roll over.
Not general homework help, and not extra tuition for its own sake.

The materials

Written for the lesson.

Every student works from a Learning Dossier written for that week’s topic — the concept, worked examples, practice, and the page where the lesson’s evidence is recorded. These are real pages from a Primary 4 dossier.

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