Co-created with James Nottingham, this rich course explores a range of perspectives and techniques for developing challenging learning in your classroom; from developing your own mindset, to fine-tuning language, adding challenge to the environment to adapting lesson structure to embed challenge, this course walks you through a journey to embed challenge in all aspects of your classroom practice.
This course gives you easy-to-follow practical ideas to develop a relish challenge in your classroom. Each step builds incrementally; as you add and adapt each idea you will gradually and purposefully build a hunger for challenge in your students from the inside out. By the end of the course, you will know how to align your mindset and adapt your language, lessons and classroom environment to stretch your students’ capability to persevere and seek out challenging learning.
This course is packed full of ideas to make well-being tangible, practical and accessible for children. Each idea is simple, impactful and tried-and-tested so we know they work. Through having the opportunity to interact with Becky Carlzon and other course members, you can ask questions and troubleshoot as you go.
The ideas and techniques shared in this course have been tried with schools and practitioners across the globe. These schools have challenge at the heart of their learning. Students in these contexts make more progress, are able to articulate their learning and are more resilient to challenges. We want this for your students too.
As students learn to challenge themselves and enjoy the fruits of their challenge, they will become hungry for more; self-driven students who are keen to challenge themselves will make new connections and deeper, accelerated progress.
Challenged learners engage more deeply with content. As you develop students’ capacity for challenge, you will experience less classroom disruptions and a more focused, engaged class.
As you refine your mindset and practice to embed challenge, you will engage in your own grapple. Experiencing challenge whilst you develop challenge in your classroom will build a shared journey and empathy with your students.
Each unit introduces a new idea to reflect on and build challenging learning in your classroom. Short video provocations from James, Becky and other lead thinkers give clear explanations of these ideas. You can return to these videos as many times as you need to consolidate these ideas and practises.
By looking at all angles of how to develop challenge, you will align your ethos and values. This will result in a clear, aligned message that your classroom is a place of challenging learning. By implementing ideas in this course, everything in your practice will reflect that.
Each course has a comments section where you can share your progress, ask questions and read other members’ progress. Becky Carlzon will always be on hand to give feedback, offer suggestions and connect you with other members. You will never feel alone, members are generous and always ready to support you on your journey.
To build depth, perspective and collective efficacy, we have embedded a book study of "The Learning Challenge" into our course. This brings the angle of written text, questions and provocations as well as video content. This means our course caters to diverse ways of expressing ourselves and engaging with learning.
Teacher, leader and consultant; creator of the Learning Pit; author of multiple books for teachers, leaders and parents. James brings a clear, research-informed way to make challenge more appealing and productive for learners.
Facilitator and co-author of Powering Up Children. Becky connects the ideas to day-to-day practice in embedding challenge, with prompts, examples and space to reflect together as you try things in your context.
*We never want money to hold back learning so we are offering equity discounts to those on a tighter budget. Email Becky Carlzon for more details.
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