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Tag: challenge culture
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The Challenge Toolkit – Free Resource
Stretch and Challenge Every Learner in Your Classroom, Including the More-Able Viewed and Downloaded 240,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Easily increase the level of challenge for groups,…
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Using written feedback to normalise challenge in the minds of your learners
If we find ourselves challenged then the likelihood is that we are learning or, at least, in a position from which to learn. This is because something is a challenge…
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Stingrays, uncertainty and Bloom’s Taxonomy: three ways to shift mindsets that will change how you think about challenge
Stingray Questions In Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates walked around the city streets of Athens posing difficult questions to the people he met. His aim was to press them on…
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The easy way to establish a challenge culture in your classroom and use this to promote growth mindsets
Learners working from the perspective of a growth mindset may be more likely to see challenge as a good thing. For them, challenges represent an opportunity to learn. There is…