A Teacher’s Week After the Mock, in JHS or SHS

9 October 20267 min read

You already have a scheme of work. The mock is the week it should bend. If half the class lost the same topic, the next lesson is that topic, even when the scheme says a new chapter. This is as true in JHS as in SHS. The syllabus underneath is not the same.

A small process that fits a staff meeting

For your subject only, list the three topics that cost the most marks across the class. Not fifteen.
Split the class in your head: students who missed topic one, and students who were fine and only slipped on instructions.
Teach topic one to everyone for one lesson. The students who were fine can do a harder question on it, not a new chapter alone at the back.
Assign practice on topic one. Collect it. Look at three scripts properly rather than forty scores.

Keep the levels apart

JHS Computing is not an SHS elective, and a BECE Science comment is not a brief for a Physics teacher. If you teach both a core and an elective, give them different assignments. Parents will ask for "extra classes in everything" after a bad mock. You can answer with the topic list. That answer is kinder than a longer evening.

The class view of readiness labels is on the teacher page. The week-by-week note is the teacher's guide. If you want the national version of the same idea, use the chief examiner's report for your subject and your exam.