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Global Education & European Teaching Strategies Upplands- Brogymnasiet (Kungsängen) In challenging groups: - High performing and highly motivated students are hand picked to be part of a special challenging group. - DO Students and teachers discuss assignment examples that have reached high scores and account for the terminoligy in the rating criteria. - All these imply Time! Priorities! Resourcess! - -Easy is boring, difficult is interesting! These are typical expression in the world of gaming. - -Teachers often give the students the right answer too easily, instead of letting them figure it out themselves. Many students take the easy options because high/fast results give more credit. - -Don’t use the easiest words when you teach – explain the hard ones! - -Show a different approach to learning and do not focus on praising high/fast results. - - Praise the right things. “What a great way to solve the problem!” - “You have really made an effort today!” On our first day, we also enjoyed the fika time together -tea time- with delicious Swedish cinnamon pastries. “fika time”: an expression we’ll always keep in our Swedish dictionary :) 12