50 Quick Ways to Stretch and Challenge More-Able Students

Discover fifty easy-to-read, easy-to-digest and easy-to-implement strategies any teacher can use to stretch and challenge their more-able learners.

This is not a book that looks in huge depth at stretch and challenge. This not a book that digs deep into the research. This is not a book that provides a detailed explanation of the academic literature.

This is a short, simple, easy-to-use overview of 50 practical strategies and techniques. Small enough to fit into your coat pocket. Useful enough to find a place on your desk. Helpful enough for you to keep returning to it as a reference when planning your lessons, creating activities and thinking up extension tasks.

Inside you'll find:

• Fifty strategies and techniques
• Ideas that can be adapted for primary and secondary learners
• Questioning strategies
• High-level thinking techniques
• Extension task ideas

Sample entries include:

• Expect the Unexpected
• Assess This
• Expert practice
• A Different Voice
• Shoe Box Tombola

Tap into the expertise of Mike Gershon, bestselling author and trainer, who's been supporting teachers to stretch and challenge their learners for over a decade.

If you're looking to stretch and challenge the thinking of your more-able learners, buy the book today and know that you'll have a pocket-size reference on hand that you can return to again and again.