Students should be intellectually enticed and challenged by the content in the classroom if they are to move forward with their learning and prepared for a world of problem-solving and application. Engaging students in work that demands analysis, creation, evaluation, thoughtfulness, whilst promoting multiple ways of reasoning and emphasising the rationale behind processes and methods, can be powerful ways to stretch and challenge students and build deep conceptual understanding.
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| 296 296 plays | 5/5 (3 Votes)Encouraging students to self-reflect and self-evaluate their learning can be challenging. In this classroom, the teacher has established a routine for self-evaluation at… -
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| 245 245 plays | 5/5 (3 Votes)Technology is a key part of driving student learning forward here in this Mexican lesson. The teacher is exploring with the class how quadratic functions vary, and uses… -
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| 500 500 plays | 5/5 (4 Votes)This Japanese teacher offers a clear example to students of how there is not just one way to approach solving a problem. He challenges students to reverse their thinking… -
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| 207 207 plays | 5/5 (3 Votes)Mistakes and misunderstandings can be rich opportunities to learn, and in this Mexican classroom the teacher shows how to embrace them. The students are working on… -
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| 242 242 plays | 5/5 (2 Votes)Delivering cognitively demanding work can be challenging, but this teacher here offers a rich example of how to push students’ thinking forward by modelling to… -
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| 188 188 plays | 4.8/5 (4 Votes)In this Colombian classroom the teacher is letting students explore how quadratic expressions can be represented through different visual representations. Students are… -
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| 415 415 plays | 4.5/5 (4 Votes)This Japanese teacher begins his lesson with a demanding and challenging problem for students. He poses an open-ended, abstract problem for students to think about,… -
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| 230 230 plays | 4.3/5 (4 Votes)Students have been organised into small groups and challenged to investigate graphing different quadratic functions. You will notice that there are a lot of phones out,… -
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| 147 147 plays | 4.3/5 (4 Votes)Students in this Colombian classroom are exploring quadratic functions through a real life problem related to the Golden Gate Bridge. The class have been working… -
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| 216 216 plays | 0/5 (0 Votes)It can be challenging in education to help students see that problems and challenges can often be solved in more than one way. This Mexican teacher offers an example of…