Seven Principles for Teaching

#5: Stretch All Learners

The learning environment devises programs that demand hard work and challenge from all, but without excessive overload.
  • Being sensitive to individual differences and needs also means being challenging enough to reach above their existing level  and capacity; at the same time, no-one should be allowed to coast for any significant amount of time.
  • Higher-achieving students can help lower-achieving students, which helps stretch all learners.
  • This underscores the need to avoid overload and de-motivating regimes based on grind, fear and excessive pressure - not just for humanistic reasons but because these are not consistent with the cognitive and motivational evidence on effective learning.

See how Yukon educators
​Stretch All Learners!

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How to support students in becoming more engaged with their learning through choice and passion.
Amber Allison
Takhini Elementary School
How to build a strong new French Immersion program within a dual-track school.

Note: this inquiry focused on fostering a learning network of a team of professionals working on their own inquiries. Professional learning opportunities were offered that developed field-based pedagogical skills, a shared vision, a common vocabulary, a commitment to student literacy learning, and a reliance on sharing practices and resources.
Nicole Doré
Selkirk Elementary School
How an all-staff learning network uses the inquiry process and ongoing professional conversation to develop growth mindset across the school community.
Trine Dennis, Kim Thompson, Jeff Cressman, Tamara Boiteau
Selkirk Elementary School
How to benefit from integrating Education Assistants into a school-based teacher inquiry team, with a focus on literacy in primary French immersion. 

Comment bénéficier d'une intégration des EAs avec une équipe d'enseignants dans le cadre d'une démarche d'enquête centrée sur la littératie avec des élèves d'immersion de niveaux élémentaires.
Pascal St. Laurent et Véronique Boivin
Yukon Education and Selkirk Elementary School
How to improve student assessment methods and better communicate this to parents.
Sharon MacCoubrey
Whitehorse Elementary School
How to take a collaborative approach to embedding Yukon First Nations ways of knowing and doing across the curriculum.
Monique Levesque
Selkirk Elementary School