Teach to the Top

Differentiation often means easier tasks and simpler questions for the pupils labelled less able. Done that way, it puts a glass ceiling on their ambitions, and they never get near the harder thinking.

Teaching to the top turns that round. You pitch work in every pupil's struggle zone, hard but achievable, and give some pupils more time and support to get there rather than less to aim for. The course makes it practical, with a four-step sequence of telling, showing, doing and practising, consistent routines that free up working memory, and a mastery model where pupils show they've got it before moving on.

You'll also look at how to build a classroom where mistakes are expected, so pupils take on hard work instead of backing away from it.