Stretch and Challenge – Effective Extension Tasks – Online CPD

Do you worry that some students in your classes will finish all of the work really quickly and then have nothing to do while they wait for the others to catch up?

Do you find yourself always telling the quick finishers and most able students to just translate the text or do more of the same? Do you lack imagination when it comes to creating simple, low-prep yet effective extension tasks? It sounds like this CPD is perfect for you!

As gifted and talented coordinator in my last school, I read so many books, attended conferences and generally spent a lot of time looking at how to stretch and challenge the most able pupils, and now I want to share my knowledge and ideas with you in a 2-hour online CPD workshop.

Saturday 16th March 2024 – 9:30am-11:30am

During the workshop, I will give you a number of ideas of the kinds of effective extension tasks you can use immediately with your students – in all 4 skills, at all levels, and in 3 different languages. The majority of the extension tasks are low-prep, high impact ones that can be used in most topics and with most classes.

Having a bank of extension tasks like this will not only save you so much time when you are planning lessons, but will also give you the confidence to pick one or two from a hat in those lessons when the quickest finishers have completed everything you’ve set, and done the extension tasks you’d already prepared!

I will also walk you through examples of extension tasks I have used effectively in my own teaching, at different levels and in different languages, and show you how to integrate stretch and challenge into your own schemes of work and everyday planning.