The document discusses establishing a culture where students regularly challenge themselves by taking on difficult tasks. The author had found that students did not always push themselves despite being given enriching extension activities. To address this, they decided to rebrand these activities as "Challenges" and make setting a Challenge task mandatory for every classroom activity in order to cultivate a norm where students set high expectations for themselves.

1. Making
Challenge
Stick
Drew Thomson (@mrthomson)
#ReachMeet
13th October 2015

2. “Educating students to have high,
challenging, appropriate expectations is
among the most powerful influence in
enhancing student achievement.”
John Hattie (2012)

3. My Issue
• Students didn’t always push themselves, despite me
presenting them with wonderous extension tasks
• Obviously can be a multidimensional problem
• I limited my concern mostly to the lack of a culture
of students challenging themselves

4. A solution?
• Rebranding to Challenge
• Setting Challenge tasks for every activity

5. For every activity!?

6. For every activity!?