Set challenging learning goals and promote deep learning and higher order thinking in all the students:
I have embraced the following strategies to establish challenging goals and further promote deep learning and higher order thinking in all the students.
Challenging learning atmosphere:
Challenging feedback:
Challenge gifted and talented children:
Challenging ADHD/Autism students:
Challenging ESL students:
Role-Play can provide interesting and challenging ways for students to use the new language.
Challenging students with diverse learning abilities and needs:
Challenge students to become smarter and brilliant:
Challenge and kindle curiosity in learning:
I have embraced the following strategies to establish challenging goals and further promote deep learning and higher order thinking in all the students.
Challenging learning atmosphere:
- Provide opportunity for students to master the complex mathematical paradigms in a challenging, exciting and cooperative learning platform
- Cultivate the pleasure of optimal challenge in students
- Facilitate students to work in small groups as they provide a safe environment to undertake a challenging task
- Provide variety of stimulating inputs, depth and three-dimensional learning to provide the novelty and excitement needed for the developing brain and engage both the left and right hemispheres of human brain thus enhancing intellectual development.
Challenging feedback:
- Employ the “challenging feedback strategy” because the challenge and feedback involve and satisfy the need for competence and this experience of competence need satisfaction motivates students to learn with enthusiasm (O'Donnell et al., 2011, p. 450).
- Absorb task-oriented praise in the instruction to nurture student’s competence (O'Donnell et al., 2011, p. 442).
- Challenge students by introducing complex mathematical problems and then, during and after solving the question, provide feedback about student’s improvement, progress and extent of mastery.
Challenge gifted and talented children:
- Design investigative activities to challenge all the learners and particularly instigate gifted and talented students to enhance their skills further.
- Encourage students to master the Mathematical paradigms by practising active, demanding and adventurous problems related to real-life scenarios, and challenging and investigative case studies.
Challenging ADHD/Autism students:
- Provide oral and written instructions, build movement into activities, assist students in setting short-term goals and praise on-task behaviour
- Use strategies that use five senses
- Incorporate tasks that are stimulating and challenging, and activities that can be divided into smaller tasks.
- Train students to focus their attention on a single task that has depth and complexity. Present challenges that require concentrated effort for success.
- Scaffold development of cognitive strategies such as positive self-talk
Challenging ESL students:
Role-Play can provide interesting and challenging ways for students to use the new language.
Challenging students with diverse learning abilities and needs:
- Incorporate tiered activities into the unit planning as they offer various levels of challenges according to student’s abilities and readiness levels
- Implement wide variety of stimulating activities such as online interactive tools, role-plays, PBL open-ended activities, Reciprocal teaching, Peer-assistance and Jigsaw puzzle.
- Assist students to progress learning from easy to more difficult, familiar to unfamiliar, routine to non-routine and breaking the tasks into manageable sections.
- Offer immersive and experiential learning that engages the hand, heart and mind of all the students.
- Give students the latitude as well as the structure to systematically evoke and fortify the inner abilities of all learners.
Challenge students to become smarter and brilliant:
- Inform students that scientists advocate that solving challenging problems stimulates brain cells. The stimulation and use leads to great neural interconnectivity, enlarges the brain’s plasticity and enables people to become smarter and brilliant (O’Donnell, Dobozy, Bartlett, Bryer, Reeve & Smith, 2011, p. 97).
- Advise them that the challenging problems provide the developing brain with the stimulation it needs to connect more and more neurons together, thus enhancing brain development, learning and cognitive development (O’Donnell et al., 2011, p. 98).
Challenge and kindle curiosity in learning:
- Do not provide direct answers to students.
- Provide stimulating cues, prompts and directions
- to participate actively in the classroom activities and persuade interest in learning
- with a goal to induce curiosity and promote higher-order thinking in students
- to enrich their learning confidence and improve their scholastic achievements.
- to lay a strong foundation for developing the attributes of successful lifelong learner