Choose a Strategy
Support explanation, confidence, memory, and improvement with LEARN-based routines.
1. Build understanding
Help students explain ideas, extend reasoning, and make their thinking clearer.
Teach AI
Helps students explain their thinking, justify ideas, and show how they reached an answer.
Why Chain
Encourages students to go beyond surface responses by linking causes, reasons, and deeper meaning.
Question Ladders
Breaks complex ideas into smaller questions so understanding builds step by step.
2. Check readiness and confidence
Make confidence, judgement, and learning gaps visible before students move on.
Confidence Tracker
Helps students rate how sure they feel and compare confidence with actual understanding.
What I Think Now
Makes early thinking visible so students can compare what they thought before with what they understand now.
What's the Gap
Helps students identify what they know, what is missing, and what they need to work on next.
3. Strengthen memory and revision
Support retrieval, spaced review, and stronger long-term memory.
Retrieval Practice
Helps students bring information back from memory so learning becomes stronger and easier to access.
Study Planner
Supports students to organise revision into manageable steps and build better study habits.
Memory Dump
Encourages students to write or say everything they can remember before checking notes or support materials.
4. Repair and refine
Help students notice mistakes, fix misunderstandings, and take clear next steps.
The LEARN Prompt Framework
Why this works
Teacher-facing rationale
Makes learning visible
Makes student understanding, confidence, and misconceptions easier to see.
Builds learner agency
Encourages students to think about their thinking and make better learning decisions.
Strengthens memory
Uses retrieval, reflection, and spaced review to support long-term learning.