Making Challenge Stick

Drew Thomson (@mrthomson)#ReachMeet13th October 2015

“Educating students to have high, challenging, appropriate expectations is among the most powerful influence in enhancing student achievement.”

John Hattie (2012)

My Issue• Students didn’t always push themselves, despite me

presenting them with wonderous extension tasks

• Obviously can be a multidimensional problem

• I limited my concern mostly to the lack of a culture of students challenging themselves

A solution?• Rebranding to Challenge

• Setting Challenge tasks for every activity

For every activity!?

For every activity!?