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Is your school embracing a stretch and challenge agenda? Find out what practical measures you can take to make sure everyone is thinking for themselves.
Apr 3, 2019 · Teachers need to remember that appropriately challenging work should be challenging. In order for students to persevere, they must learn to navigate struggle. Years ago on a bright spring afternoon one of my wise kindergarten students taught me a key lesson: the importance of being a careful coach.
Jun 28, 2017 · Implementing a stretch and challenge model in your classroom requires teachers and students to recognise that learning should be difficult. This may seem like a pretty obvious statement to make but often, without recognising it, we set a limit on what we think students can do.
- Mark Enser
- Know what excellence looks like. To challenge pupils to produce the very best work they are capable of, you first need to agree on what this looks like, for your subject and for your key stage.
- Share what excellence looks like. Once you have decided what excellent work looks like, you need to share this with your pupils. This could be through displaying the work you have logged or creating model answers of your own.
- Support them in achieving excellence. A common idea put forward by the proponents of Growth Mindset is that anyone can improve if they try hard enough.
- Secure knowledge - then apply it. Challenging work, in many subjects, involves taking what you know and applying this in a new context. Too often, though, you see classes who have been asked to apply knowledge they just don’t have in the name of “challenge”.
Sep 4, 2019 · For decades, there has been evidence that classroom techniques designed to get students to participate in the learning process produces better educational outcomes at virtually all levels. And a new Harvard study suggests it may be important to let students know it.
Mar 22, 2021 · The use of “low threshold, high ceiling” tasks are helpful in a mixed ability class, with all pupils able to access the learning and some able to take it further. In maths, a question as simple as “How many legs in the school?” can lead to good outcomes for all (including those who realise the question doesn’t specify human legs).
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Feb 15, 2024 · Challenge-based learning (CBL) shares many characteristics with related inductive teaching approaches such as ‘inquiry learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based teaching, discovery learning, and just-in-time teaching’ (Prince & Felder, 2006, p. 123).
