Stretch amp Challenge in RE Esther Messinger emessingerbristolcathedralorguk Who is Stretch amp Challenge for Explain How important is it Why Is it difficult to plan for Stretch amp Challenge in RE Justify ID: 621484
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10 ideas for ‘Stretch & Challenge’ in RE
Esther Messinger emessinger@bristolcathedral.org.ukSlide2
Who is Stretch & Challenge for? Explain
How important is it? Why?
Is it difficult to plan for Stretch & Challenge in RE? Justify
In regards to Stretch & Challenge, what is working for you and your students?Slide3Slide4Slide5
Use Title QuestionsSlide6
2010 2013 last Ofsted reports
Calls for Secondary Schools to
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improve the quality of teaching and the curriculum to increase opportunities for pupils to work independently, make links with other subjects and tackle more challenging tasks.”
“ensure that the overall curriculum provision for RE is challenging and has greater coherence and continuity.”Slide7
2. Encourage intellectual risk taking.
Reward ideas and questions, not answers.
Thank students for speaking up.
Demand questions!Slide8
3. Use reading lists
Book talk
Competition
Praise postcard - token systemSlide9
4. ABC Add, Build, Challenge
“The biblical account of the fall is not relevant today”
“All religious people should give charity”
“Buddhism is a philosophy, not a religion”
“Suicide is wrong”
“People should not let religion influence their personal relationships”
“Prayer is the best way to worship”Slide10
5. Plan your questions
State your title question and then ask the class to decide what you need to know. E.G.Slide11
Do you think that ideas about the effect of the Fall on human nature only works if the Fall was a historical event concerning two real individuals?
The Fall
: The biblical event in which Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command and ate the fruit from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden; also used to refer to the imperfect state of humanity.Slide12
Do you think that ideas about the effect of the Fall on human nature only works if the Fall was a historical event concerning two real individuals?
Humanity before and after the fall?
What is the meaning of the fall?
Can the meaning of the Fall work if the Fall is a metaphor not a historical reality?
Can its meaning apply to a group of people?
The Fall
: The biblical event in which Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command and ate the fruit from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden; also used to refer to the imperfect state of humanity.Slide13
7. Know the students’ interests to personalise learning. Slide14
8. Get students discussing, not writing. Slide15
9. Differentiate through choice and creativity.Slide16
10. Support memory and retention.Slide17