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The most able pupils are sometimes the most overlooked. When teaching aims for the middle, your highest attainers can coast, underachieve, or lose interest. This training helps your staff stretch and challenge the most able, so every pupil, including your brightest, is pushed to achieve their best.
Below, we explain what our challenging the most able training involves, and how it helps you stretch every pupil.
What Is Challenging the Most Able Training?
It’s practical training that helps teachers stretch and challenge their most able pupils. We cover higher-order thinking, effective questioning, deepening rather than accelerating, avoiding coasting, and building challenge into everyday teaching for all pupils.
We focus on challenge that lifts everyone, not just a separate task for a few, and tailor it to your phase and curriculum.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It suits whole-school INSET, subject teams, and early career teachers. Trusts often run it across schools for a consistent approach to challenge.
Many schools ask for it when high attainers are coasting, to raise expectations, or to build challenge into everyday teaching.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Identifying and understanding your most able
- Higher-order thinking and questioning
- Deepening learning rather than accelerating
- Building challenge into everyday lessons
- Avoiding coasting and underachievement
- High expectations for all pupils
- Challenging the most able with SEND
- A consistent approach to stretch and challenge
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
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Stretch your most able
Your staff learn to challenge high attainers, so your brightest pupils are pushed, not left to coast.
2
Raise expectations for all
Building challenge into teaching lifts expectations and outcomes for every pupil, not just the most able.
3
Deepen learning
We show staff how to deepen understanding rather than just moving pupils on faster.
4
Use questioning well
Staff learn to use higher-order questioning that stretches thinking across the class.
5
Avoid underachievement
We help you spot and tackle the coasting that holds able pupils back.
6
Challenge every able pupil
We include able pupils with SEND or from disadvantaged backgrounds, who are often overlooked.
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Build consistency
Every teacher builds challenge in the same way, so pupils are stretched across the school.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We model the strategies live and use your curriculum, so staff see how to build challenge into real lessons.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Evidence-informed
We build on what works for stretching and challenging able pupils.
Tailored to your phase
We shape the training around your pupils, phase, and curriculum.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a subject session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know able pupils are often overlooked, and how to stretch every child. Our training helps you challenge the most able, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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