50 Quick Ways to Stretch and Challenge More-Able Students - Paperback

by Mike Gershon (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Mike Gershon is the author of numerous books on teaching, learning and education, including the bestselling 'How To...' and '50 Quick Ways' series. His online resources have been downloaded millions of times by teachers across the world. He has written over 50 guides covering different areas of classroom practice, delivers training throughout the UK and overseas, and is the creator of two award-winning online courses available through the TES Institute. Find out more at www.mikegershon.com