About this course

Do you want more ways to stretch your most able students in the classroom?

Would you like a treasure chest of strategies, tailored to your subject, that are low on preparation time, but very effective?

Would you prefer a more modern approach to teaching the more able based upon flair and creativity rather than form filling and ticking boxes?

In addition to examining issues of provision for your most able students, this course will explore practical classroom approaches to meet their needs in a mixed ability or ability based setting. The strategies will challenge and stretch every student. Delegates will leave the course with a host of new ideas they can use tomorrow with the minimum of teacher preparation time required.

Course Outcomes:

• Identify challenging pedagogies for the most able and tailor them to individual delegates
• Explore practical strategies for stretching the highest achievers
• Build your repertoire of ideas and strategies for embedding thinking skills into students’ learning
• Be equipped with numerous techniques for maintaining the motivation and improvement of the most able

Course Outline:

Most Able Students in a Mixed Ability or Ability Setting

Ideas to stretch the most able in a mixed ability setting

A variety of pedagogies to challenge the most able

Stimulating higher order thinking skills properly – not just lip service.

Approaches to realistic differentiation that really means something.

Embedding Provision Across the Faculties

Ideas to enrich the curriculum

Strategies to promote creativity

Models to embed thinking skills

Lesson plans for the most able

Creating an Outstanding Provision

Enrichment activities to augment the curriculum

Raising the bar for the most able (and all)

Teacher expectations to the desired goals

Latest research on teaching the most able