Just-in-Time Teaching is a pedagogical strategy, so its learning goals are those of the instructor: mastery of the subject is always the primary concern. JiTT helps students achieve mastery by helping teachers engage students in their learning. JiTT helps instructors make the lecture setting more participatory and student centered. Simultaneously, JiTT helps students stay focused and prepared to learn throughout the semester. JiTT also helps teachers identify the strengths and weakness of their students, their materials and their presentations. Thus, it helps instructors adjust the pace of the course and the quality of their resources to maximize learning. By helping teachers engage students and improve their courses, JiTT helps students learn more of the content, skills, and attitudes that faculty value.
In addition to these goals, the structure of JiTT aids students in developing skills and behaviors that will continue to benefit them as learners and as professionals. Well constructed JiTT assignments ask students to address open-end questions at a conceptual level and in writing. Improved communication skills, and an ability to deal with ill-defined problems, are direct results. Effective study routines and the habit of connecting new ideas to prior knowledge are also among the benefits that JiTT can bring.