Introduction
The Quick Checker can be used to support conversations between class teachers and parent carers at the initial concern stage. The Quick Checker is not a diagnostic tool but it is designed to identify barriers within the Cognition and Learning area of need.
Quick Checker for Cognition and Learning
For the statements below, consider if there are concerns for the child or young person’s:
- lack of progress, even with differentiated high quality first teaching approaches which are targeted to gaps and barriers
- performance levels are not being met – they are below the level within what most children and young people are expected to work
- difficulty acquiring basic literacy skills and knowledge, for example, phonics, reading fluency and reading speed
- difficulty acquiring basic maths skills and knowledge, for example, number bonds, applying and remembering maths learning
- retaining and recalling information – in the short and/or long term
- difficulty in dealing with abstract ideas, applying prior learning and problem-solving
- slow processing – they take longer to work through problems and tasks but can do with longer time
- poor independent learning skills such as the ability to focus, listen, organise themselves, sequence, or sustain attention on a task
- high level of dependence on adult support
- lack of confidence, avoidance of tasks and reluctance to take risks