No-one wants to feel like a muppet! — from marymyatt.substack.com/ by Mary Myatt
High challenge, low threat
But what is crucial is that this is not a public, humiliating struggle which dehumanises the person, it is the private conversations we have with ourselves about what is working and what isn’t.
The second strand is that the circumstances are always low threat. No-one else can see our struggling to get the solution.
No-one is pointing the finger.
It is when we feel safe at this deep level that we are prepared to risk things and have a go.
If we are serious about providing pupils with an ambitious curriculum, we need to consider how the ‘high challenge’ is balanced by ‘low threat’.