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Tag: challenging all learners
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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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A pair of simple strategies any teacher can use to successfully manage behaviour in their classroom
Strategy One: Scaffolding and Modelling Success If learners feel they can’t access the work, or if they feel that success is beyond their grasp, then they are likely to experience…