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Tag: stretching thinking
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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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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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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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How expert teachers use Bloom’s Taxonomy as their go-to teaching tool for facilitating challenge (unless they only teach practical areas of the curriculum)
Challenge in the Classroom Let’s think about challenge and, specifically, how Bloom’s Taxonomy helps teachers to facilitate it. Challenge means that learners are being asked to do more than they…