The High-Challenge Classroom
- How to fully engage with Ofsted’s challenge focus:
- challenge before acceleration
- ensuring students ‘grapple’ and encounter failure
- evidencing that work isn’t too easy
- Proven new ways to ensure challenge levels are continually just ahead of skill levels
- A busy teacher’s toolkit:
- planning
- schemes of work
- assessment
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Description
The changing nature of challenge
Ofsted: the Teaching, Learning and Assessment framework
Features of Outstanding: high challenge and questioning
Challenge for all: spectrums of challenge
National Curriculum: the mastery agenda post-levels
Research: the evidence base behind high challenge – Hattie, Dweck and more!
Proven ways to use high challenge to:
Develop high learner expectations
Move learning from the surface to deep
Establish an environment where risk is valued and encouraged
Consolidate learning before acceleration
Build knowledge retention in learners
Sustain pupils’ interests with reshaped tasks
Progress ALL pupils without compromising learning
Tools to apply in your classroom:
- CATER – an approach to differentiation that doesn’t lead to low expectations
- Effective questioning toolkit
- Planning approaches and techniques
- Challenge frameworks to create opportunities for feedback
- Memory-building tools
- New topic planning processes
- Ideas for clear task-setting
- Time-saving ways to adapt current schemes of work
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Additional information
| Course Type | G&T, Teaching & Learning |
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