Challenge PP Inset Day 15/10/13
- 1. • To explore what is meant by challenge • To explore how challenge supports learning • To explore how we can make learning activities challenging • To link challenging activities to the language of learning
- 4. Top 5 take away tips to increase challenge
- 5. Tip 1 A thoughtfully prepared challenge on the outset, gets lessons off to an intriguing and curious start. Competing against each other can be motivating and create a sense of challenge. Lateral thinking Puzzles Digbats A question of ....
- 9. Tip 2 Student led plenaries. Have a ‘lazy teachers’ week. Tell the students they are going to be responsible for checking students understanding of the learning objective. Use the Blooms thinking cube to help them generate ideas.
- 11. Tip 3 As soon as students come in get them into roles within their groupings. You could make one the team leader: responsible for coordinting the response from the group Other roles include: roving reporter. Student shave to come and select relevant information from sources around the classroom. Have opportunities for them to make decision about what happens next. Make someone responsible for being the learning detective: Hunting out students who are calling upon the capacities.
- 13. Tip 4 Learning objective: who were King Henry's wives? How could we make this more challenging?
- 15. Tip 5 Have images cut up or a sequence of images in the wrong order. Student are to place them into the right order and be able to justify why. Or recreate the puzzle picture. You could retain some of the images and ask them to imagine what the final piece would be?