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Increasing the level of challenge

January 16, 2017January 12, 2017Oxford Geography Team
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I have often structured the tasks in my lessons as ‘all/most/some’ to enable simple differentiation but have noticed that this challenges the most able students, instead of all students. It also seems a little unfair that some students have to complete more work to challenge themselves. Instead, I have started using a different way of […]

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