Getting+started

**Introducing the concept of ‘challenge’ through visual stimuli** 1.  Show students a slide show or short film on Movie Maker that has ‘challenge as the theme’.
 * Introducing the concept of ‘challenge’**

1.  Students are to complete a think-pair-share activity to define the term ‘challenge’. Reach a class consensus on the definition of ‘challenge’. You may wish to use the following definition: // Challenge: a demanding or stimulating situation. // 1.   Students could create a symbol that represents challenge. These could be done on A3 or A4 paper and displayed around the room. 2.  Give students the list of quotes relating to challenges. Read aloud in Community Circle. Get students to respond to the quotes in their books. // Key ideas/ questions //  ·  Choose your favourite quote from the list. Write it in your C&C general book and explain what you think the quote is saying, and why you like it. Following this, get students to devise their own quote about overcoming challenge. They could decorate these on a piece of A3 or A4 paper and be displayed around the room.
 * Defining ‘challenge’ (using B12 Think, pair, share) **
 * // Key ideas/ questions //**
 * Exploring the concept of ‘challenge’ **

** Personal challenges **  1.   Get the students to identify at least 10 challenges they have experienced in their life, for example changing schools, moving house, death in the family etc. Have them write these in dot point in their books. 2.  Students could share an example of one challenge they have faced in Community Circle. Discuss with the students the idea that a challenge can be big or small. Encourage students to think about a challenge they have faced recently, perhaps in the holidays. 3.  Students then need to choose one to write an extended personal piece on. Explain to the students that a personal piece can take a number of different forms for example it can be poem, song lyrics, short story etc. The draft need to be completed in class and the good copy is homework. 1.  You could link the theme ‘challenge’ with the good learning behaviour ‘Good Learners Persist’ that students have covered in TLC. Students could write a short reflection on a challenge they have faced at school, how they overcame the challenge, and what they learnt about themselves from this challenging experience, and how they have used what they learnt since then/ or how they will use it in the future. 2.  Get students to ‘Mill to Music’ (could even be a song with a challenge theme e.g. ‘Born to Try’ by Delta Goodrem – SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF A BETTER EXAMPLE! What about EMINEM "[|Lose Yourself]" will have to listen for rude stuff, not sure, opps there's one muther... ). When the music stops get people to discuss with the nearest person different types of challenges they may have faced. For example, a school based challenge, a sporting or other extra curricular based challenge, a health challenge, a humorous challenge, a challenge that have experienced with technology, a challenge they experienced when they were in primary school, the biggest challenge they face to stay on-task at school, T.V shows that have challenge as a theme (e.g. Survivor, Race Around the World, Big Brother, Gladiators). 3.  Students could write about the biggest challenge they face in having success in C&C, and write these as a ‘C&C Challenge goal’. These could be collated and displayed around the room and used for reflection on a regular basis. 4. Get students to do rocket writing activity using one of the story starters.
 * Personal challenges (using brainstorming, writing tasks, and Community Circle) **
 * Alternative activities (using Good Learning Behaviours, Milling to Music, Reflective writing and goal setting, and Rocket Writing). **



** Other categories of challenges ** 1.  Students fill in the grid to gain an understanding of the physical, technical and intellectual challenges.
 * Introducing physical, technical and intellectual challenges (using A5 Constructing grids) **

2.  Definitions and examples of the different challenges could be shared in Community Circle. 1.  Students have already explored the concept of personal challenges. Discuss with students the idea that challenges also occur on a global and local level. Get students to think-pair-share examples of global and local challenges. Compile a list of these on the board.
 * Personal, local and global challenges (using B12 Think-pair-share and B28 Mind maps) **

2.  Get students to represent these three categories of challenges in the form of a mind map. Use the mind map template if you wish.