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Tag: challenge
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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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Easily stretch and challenge your learners with more than a dozen strategies you can use to effectively differentiate right now
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 4
This blog is Part 4 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Five Simple Ways to Sustain Pace As promised in Part 3, here we have five techniques…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Bloom’s Taxonomy We move now to consider an exceptionally valuable tool all teachers can call on…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 2
This blog is Part 2 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Using Questioning to Challenge All Learners We now turn to look at questioning in a little…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 4. You can access the other parts here: In Part 1, I’ll focus on differentiation. In Part 2, how to use questioning to stretch…
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Channel the power of the Ancients and get your learners sharpening their skills of evaluation every time you teach
A long, long time ago … Back in Ancient Greece, philosophers of the time pressed each other for justification. A claim could be made, but it would then face scrutiny.…
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Leverage the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to bring critical and creative thinking into your planning, your activities and the lessons you teach
Critical and Creative Thinking Skills We can seek to directly improve the critical and creative thinking skills of our learners by providing challenge supplements that focus on these. A challenge…
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Add challenge into your lessons at almost any point by calling on Bloom’s Taxonomy as a framework for stretching learner thinking
Challenge as a Supplement Here are two ways to think about challenge. First, challenge is an integral part of any lesson, permeating our planning and teaching. Second, challenge is a…
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Put your lessons on a trajectory of challenge by using synthesis and evaluation as your Bloom’s-Taxonomy-inspired endpoints
Creating Challenging Endpoints with Synthesis and Evaluation As a reminder, here’s Bloom’s Taxonomy And here’s a set of keywords for synthesis and evaluation: Synthesis: Evaluation: Now, what I want to…