Stretch and Challenge Every Learner in Your Classroom, Including the More-Able
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🎯 Easily increase the level of challenge for groups, individuals or the whole class.
🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
🎯 Discover new ways to stretch and challenge your more-able learners.
🎯 Create your own bank of high-impact challenge strategies that fit with how you teach and plan.
🎯 Find the sweet spot for high challenge so your learners can experience struggle but also find success.
Stretch and challenge is at the heart of great teaching.
It’s not always easy to achieve, particularly with mixed ability groups.
One of the best ways to make your life easier is to have a wide selection of challenge strategies on hand, ready to use.
Which is exactly what The Challenge Toolkit provides.
Simplify Stretch and Challenge with Fifty Strategies, Activities and Techniques
When I created The Challenge Toolkit, I wanted to bring together as many strategies as possible.
Ones you can use to challenge more-able learners.
And ones you can deploy with the whole class.
Every entry in the toolkit looks at challenge from a subtly different perspective.
Giving you a host of approaches you can use in your lessons.
These are strategies that will help push your learners’ thinking, taking them beyond the boundary of what they can currently do.
The resource is FREE to download and FREE to use.
It is published by Gershon Learning Limited under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license.
That means you can download it, freely share it and redistribute it with attribution and a link to this site, but you cannot use it for commercial purposes or create any derivatives of it.
Download The Challenge Toolkit Today
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What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the strategies, activities and techniques waiting for you inside The Challenge Toolkit:
- 🧗 Insoluble Problems
- 🧗 Random Words
- 🧗 Paradox
- 🧗 Defend Your Consequence
- 🧗 Analogies
- 🧗 Bad Reasoning
- 🧗 Lateral Thinking
- 🧗 In the mind of …
- 🧗 What’s Your Criteria?
- 🧗 Rank the Questions
- 🧗 Experimenter
- 🧗 Devise a way to …
- 🧗 Ultimate Reasoning
- 🧗 Round Table
- 🧗 Make the Metaphor
Using The Challenge Toolkit in Your Planning
The Challenge Toolkit is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the strategies and techniques any way you like.
Here are four ideas to get you started.
✅ Add extension tasks to existing lessons by picking out strategies you particularly like and weaving them into your slides.
✅ Create a bank of challenge activities that are most relevant for you, your learners and the age group you teach.
✅ Share the resource with your more-able learners and ask them to look through and identify three entries that most intrigue them, and which they would most like you to use with them.
✅ Print off a copy of The Challenge Randomiser (see below).
Give this to your more-able learners. Explain that when they finish the main task, they should select a number at random and share it with you.
Each number references a different page/slide in The Challenge Toolkit.
Create a relevant extension task or question for your more-able learner, based on the number they choose.
Over time, they can aim to complete the randomiser, crossing off each number as they go, or identify the challenge tasks they like the most.
P.S. You can access all my resources in one place on the free resources hub page.
The Challenge Randomiser – Bonus Resource
