Stretching students

Stephanie Dyce

Neil Matthews

Collingwood V Carlton

Aussie Rules
Task
Place the cards in the appropriate
position on the oval.

NB There are 14 players outside the

centre square and 4 who always start
inside this square.

Prize for first correct finisher

How many did you get?

Discussion
Talk to a partner about the activity. What do
we learn about stretching students from it?

Aims
To understand the key principles behind
stretching students
To know a range of practical techniques
To be able to explore how to apply
techniques to your subject area

Outcomes
By the end of the session you will have:
an understanding of interrelating features of high
challenge
a knowledge of interactive strategies that
demand more of students
begun to apply the concepts and strategies to
your subject area

Key Principle 1

Know your students

1. Use the data

2. Keep on tracking

Student

MAG

WW2
impact

Ready
for War

Stalin
WW2

Censor
45-53

Econ
45-53

Mock

Khrus
h

Brez

WW2

194553

Khru
sh

Brez

A*

A*

A*

A*

3. Use your senses

Such assessment becomes formative
assessment when the evidence is actually
used to adapt the teaching work to meet
learning needs. Dylan Wiliam

Gots

Needs

The difference
between First past the
post and proportional
representation
What a coalition
government is and why
you might need one
Why a coalition
government might be
weak

The difference between

Fascist and Communist
What a constitution is

Points for discussion

What data is available to you and how are
you using it?
Is there any more information that you
think would be helpful to you?
What could you do better in the way that
you use data to challenge students and
raise their achievement?

Key Principle 2

Clarity of learning objectives and

outcomes

Definitions
Learning Objectives
What the teacher intends pupils to learn
Learning Outcomes
How achievement will be demonstrated by
pupils and measured by the teacher

Keep it simple
Focuses on learning not tasks
to know that (knowledge/content)
to understand (concepts)
to be able to (skills)

Learning Outcomes
Differentiated
In pupil friendly language and shared with them
Show genuine progression as opposed to
different activities
Mark schemes are useful
Linked to grades/levels

Key Principle 3

Appropriate challenge

Scaffolding and supporting

Note taking grid

Conscience
Heart
Key words to
trigger
memory
Gods authority
Moral truth

Moral truth conscience is

not a law unto itself. To
invokeMain
conscience
is to be
details
subject to moral truth. I
must live by it lest I turn
from the truth and betray
my truest self.

Conscience
should
always
be
obeyed.
Apply to a question
How would Gula respond to this quote?

Details
Reason
Why
did
USSR
win?

Production

By end 42 prodn =
68% pre-war

DEPORT

Directly answer the question they have set

Explanation should be evident in your
paragraph
Punctuate/paragraph - on a regular basis; one
paragraph = one theme
Opening sentence to each paragraph
focuses directly on the question
Relevant factual support all the way
through (green pen)
Tense stay in the past tense at all times!

Building an argument

Cheat sheets

Points for discussion

How would you use any of these
strategies in your subject area?
Do you use any other strategies that are
effective?

Key Principle 4

Interactive strategies

More or less?

The Diamond 9

What would be the most effective ways

of stretching students at your school?
Arrange the 9 cards into a diamond shape. The
most effective strategies go at the top.

Justify
On the paper write a justification for your top
3. Why do you think they are the most
important? Also, explain why your bottom
card is the least important.
Move to another diamond nine. Read their
justifications. Do you agree with them? Can
you give extra reasons for points you agree
with? Where you dont agree, give reasons to
try to persuade them to see it your way.
Read the comments you have been given.
Will you make any final changes?

Key Principle 5

Reflection

Reflection - key points

Lesson by lesson
Data trails
Student voice
To inform appropriate intervention

Over to you