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Tag: stretch and 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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Leverage the knowledge and skills of your learners so they can start differentiating for each other, while you stand back and observe
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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Start thinking critically about the questions you ask and get an instant boost to your in-lesson differentiation
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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Four easy ways you can take familiar elements of your planning and subtly tweak them, so they are better differentiated for your learners
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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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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Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to create independence for your learners and give them the freedom to embrace challenge (and enjoy the experience)
Using Project Work to Stretch and Challenge Your Learners Project work is where we give learners an independent task to complete as they see fit, usually over an extended period.…
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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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Instantly differentiate your questioning, including for your less- and more-able learners, by letting Bloom’s Taxonomy do the work for you
Bloom’s-Based Extension Questions Let’s think briefly about using Bloom’s taxonomy to structure extension questions. These questions are supplements to the main work of the lesson. They are called extensions because…