KLI CubeDiagnose before you teach
Teaching Tool Box · Years 9–10

Diagnose
before you teach.

KLI Cube locates a learning difficulty on two axes, what kind of knowledge it is and how far learning has progressed, then points to the teaching response that fits.

1

Name the knowledge → row

Is the difficulty a fact, a concept, a procedure, or choosing the right method?

2

Find the stage → column

On a familiar task, with support, what can the student actually do?

3

Teach to the cell, then move right

Use that cell's response, check again, and move on as the evidence allows.

Two questions

Find the cell

Answer from the evidence in front of you: a quiz item, an exit ticket, a SAC question, a conversation.

The matrix · Years 9–10

Knowledge × stage → response

Each cell is a different teaching problem. Click a cell for what you'll see, what success looks like, the strategies that fit, and the research behind it.

Rows adapt Anderson & Krathwohl's knowledge dimension, with conditional knowledge in the metacognitive row. Columns follow Haring & Eaton's instructional hierarchy. A topic can sit in different cells for different students.

How I use it

Principles