Stretch & Challenge - PowerPoint Presentation

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Stretch & Challenge

Learning Objectives:

To understand how to stretch and Challenge A’ Level and A* GCSE Students

To know examples of activities used to stretch and challenge.

To be apply the stretch and challenge activities to your subject area. Slide2

Starter:

think pair, share….what is meant by stretch and challenge?

Re-write the question to make it more challenging. Slide3

Stretch and Challenge

Made Simple………

Classic Diamond Nine………..how do we stretch using the diamond nine?Slide4

A grade:

Justify your decision.

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Key question: Is it ‘ethical’ to buy low cost goods produced

in developing markets?

Arguments to support

Arguments against

Student task 1:

Produce a diamond nine that includes arguments for/against.

Student task 2:

Students were split into a new group.

Group 1 researched arguments for.

Group 2 researched arguments against.

They presented back their findings and then returned to their partners.

Student task 3:

Students returned to their partners and then proceeded to create their own diamond nine again.

Student task 4:

Students compared their diamond nine to the one the teacher produced and had to decide if they wanted to replace any of their arguments – they didn’t.Slide5

A grade:

Justify your decision.

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Arguments to support

Key question: Is it ‘ethical’ to buy low cost goods produced in

developing markets?

Emerging

markets such as china are growing

Foreign companies

are

contributing to the growth in the middle classes in emerging markets.

1,021 textile workers died in the collapse of the

Rana

Plaza factory building near Dhaka.

There are currently

3.5 million

children living in poverty in the UK.

Apple’s suppliers were using child

labour

.

European and UK manufactures have strict

labour

laws protecting their workers.

Costs are higher if produced in the

UK.

Lower costs if produced in emerging markets.

Arguments againstSlide6

Syllabus Tweaks

By Iain BarlowSlide7

Stretch and Challenge Within the SyllabusSlide8

E - Recall

C - Describe

A – Explain

Stretch and Challenge Within the SyllabusSlide9

Syllabus Tweaks (Iain)

E – Recall

Recall

that the resistance of metallic conductors increases with increasing temperature and that the resistance of

NTC thermistors

decreases with increasing temperature.

C – Describe

Describe

an experiment to

investigate the relationship between resistance of metallic conductors and temperature. (Same experimental procedure for thermistors).A – ExplainExplain, qualitatively, how changes of resistance with temperature may be modeled in terms of lattice vibrations and number of conduction electrons.

Stretch and Challenge Within the SyllabusSlide10

Syllabus Tweaks (Iain)

Stretch and Challenge Within the Syllabus

Grade ESlide11

Syllabus Tweaks (Iain)

Stretch and Challenge Within the Syllabus

Grade CSlide12

Syllabus Tweaks (Iain)

Stretch and Challenge Within the Syllabus

Grade ASlide13

Your Turn…

Using our ideas, our ideas of your own, create a task where you stretch and challenge your students.

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STOP!

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Review

Move to someone from a different strand and you have not worked with before.

Present back your stretch and challenge activities to your partner.

Peer assessment:

Where is the challenge?

How will it challenge the students?

Is there anything missing? Could it be improved?

Questioning techniques!Slide15

Stretching your Questioning

Never give the answer

‘And why’ technique

Use of connectives

For instance?Therefore

‘Pounce and Bounce’ techniqueTake the time to planSlide16

Bluewave

Swift Slide17

Bluewave

Swift Slide18

Bluewave

Swift Slide19

Examples of stretch and challengeSlide20

What changes will be made to the question papers to assess Stretch and Challenge?There will be no additional papers or optional questions for Stretch and Challenge

– it will be

assessed within existing A2 question papers

. Awarding bodies will achieve this through:A particular

style of questions – a greater variety of introductions to questions, for example 'analyse

', 'evaluate', 'discuss'Structuring questions in a more coherent way which shows

more connections between sections of the specification

, for example from a) to b) to c).

Including

extended writing in all subjects except where it is clearly inappropriate, for example Maths.Using a wider range of question types, for example, case studies and open-ended questions, rather than just short answer questions.Developing improved synoptic assessments, not just superficial links between areas relating to question types.Stretch and Challenge at A’ LevelSlide21

Stretch and Challenge Activity 1

Exam question

Ask students to produce exam questions

for the topic they are studying. These could be

scaffolded by criteria

or left open. Extension:

- Students go on to

create model answers

to the questions they have set.

- Students swap questions with one another and then answer these. - Questions are taken in by the teacher and redistributed at random. After writing answers students meet up with the question author to mark the work. Slide22

Beat the teacher is also good for motivating some students. Give them a little time to come up with any questions related to recently covered content

and

then have a full class Q&A slot with the

teacher in the hot seat. Other students

can then be involved in additional question formation as well. The challenge here is to find something the teacher can’t answer or

gets wrong!

Stretch and Challenge Activity 2 Beat the TeacherSlide23

Strong learners often finish fast and to a good standard. What could provide a motivating stretch at that point?Ask them to

make up three questions to check understanding of the last task

. This can be done as a

competition with you choosing the best three to ask the class afterwards.

Get them to predict which three main points you are going to

recap from the group task. Points scored for getting it right, if the learners respond well to an element of competition.

Have a fun follow up ready – a game, quiz, vocabulary box activity.

Stretch and Challenge Activity

3

Extension ActivitySlide24

Incorporate some carousel activities, where students work at tables and move to another table and a new task when they have finished. Tasks can be at

different levels of

difficulty.

Teachers facilitates the learning monitoring and feedback and can define who works where at the start of the

session.

Stretch and Challenge Activity 4 Carousel ActivitiesSlide25

Group composition and use of rolesGroup learners so that strong learners work together.

Set

a task that pushes them and an

explicit instruction to challenge, query and use higher order questioning/ thinking skills. If these are not familiar to them, I provide some prompt cards with suggested questions or question stems.

Include challenging extension questions on

cards.There is automatic

stretch for learners if they are working with others around or above their own level of knowledge or skills.

This often has a positive effect on group dynamics and the quality of work produced in the group task.

Roles

within group tasks can also provide stretch, as you can allocate roles based on skills/ areas of knowledge that learners need to develop, e.g. Spelling monitor for the one who is strong on content but can be careless with accuracy. Most learners, even strong ones, have something they need to work on.Stretch and Challenge Activity 5 Carousel ActivitiesSlide26