Sample introductory session Grafari (Orthograph)

    This session plan is intended as a rough guide and must be adapted to suit students‘ ages and level of prior knowledge.

    Time Goals Activities Material
    5‘ Understanding the purpose of learning with Grafari (Orthograph)
    1. Read out, explain or allow to students to look at the worksheet «Helpful Hints for Getting Started: How Learn-ing Works in the Brain». Answer any questions
    «Helpful Hints for Getting Started: How the Learning Software Works» can be printed from Coach with a single click
    10‘ Getting familiar with how the training works
    1. Read out, explain or allow to students to look at the worksheet «Helpful Hints for Getting Started: How the Learning Software Works»
    2. Decide when training sessions should happen - where and how often? (During lesson time at school / around other school activities / at home as homework...)
    3. Have students note down their user names and passwords
    4. Distribute parent letters; students receive their user names and passwords for training at home

    «Helpful Hints for Getting Started: How the Learning Software Works»

    «Parent letters» with personal login details (can be printed from Coach with a single click)

    20‘  Getting started with training
    1. Go through the worksheet «First Steps with Grafari Orthograph» with the students (open the Cockpit, sign in, start Grafari (Orthograph))
    2. Place a link on the desktop or in the start menu
    3. Students work through the training
    4. Look at the instructions before each game. Where necessary, watch the instructional video
    PC/Laptops
    Student worksheet «First Steps with Orthograph»
    5‘ Learning to reflect
    1. Explain the progress indicator in the game and the reward system in the shop
    2. Explain the options in the Coach monitoring program
    On the PC or projector
    5‘ Understanding how learning can be optimised on the basis of this reflection
    1. When and how often should teachers monitor progress?
    2. When should the students receive feedback and in what form (learning reports, certificates)?
    3. Show what a report or certificate looks like
    4. Look inside Grafari (Orthograph) Coach
    5. Set consequences for not carrying out training
    6. At what point should specific errors be discussed with students individually?
    7. When should custom modules be created?
     
    Home Starting to train independently  
    1. Distribute parent letters
    2. Carry out first training session at home
    «Parent letters» (see above)