Suitable for district leaders and principals, this book examines five Title I primary schools that have sustained outstanding achievement gains and shows how other schools can duplicate their success. It emphasizes creating a high-achieving culture that consistently supports improvement.
A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfill their potential, raising whole school standards. It explains the origins of under achievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners - provides a model that identifies a range of factors that conspire to lower achievement.
To understand the ways people with autism think, Peter Vermeulen argues, we need to try to get inside their world. With this introductory book, he explains the latest scientific thinking on autism and illustrates this with numerous personal accounts.
Effective teaching for gifted and talented students is high on the agenda of school systems across the world. This title presents an analysis of the practice of schools judged to be outstanding in their effective teaching of gifted and talented students.
Covers the areas that MFL teachers need to be aware of including government legislation, national initiatives and departmental policy. This book provides case studies on support for more able students with learning difficulties (ADHD, dyslexia, sensory impairment); and, recognizing high potential or ability.
Featuring appendices and a CD, this work provides specific guidance on: recognising high ability and multiple intelligences planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in history teacher questioning skills, support for more able pupils with learning difficulties (dyslexics, ADHD, sensory impairment), and homework recording and assessment.
Intended for class teachers in primary and secondary schools, this guide looks at strategies for identifying able, gifted and talented children and meeting their social, emotional and educational needs. Illustrated with case studies and FAQs, it is also suitable for PGCE students, G&T coordinators and those undergoing training as leading teachers.
Discussing talented children and their education in the USA, this work also provides insights and ideas about what parents can do to improve the quality of their children's education. It explains the approach used at CTY, highlights drawbacks in the current system, and suggests improvements.
Explores the way staff impact learner beliefs about ability and suggests ways that staff can support young children as they develop. This book contains practical ideas for: giving feedback and praise; structuring activities to help shape and recognise high ability; and, creating a challenging learning environment.
Offers elementary and secondary teachers the help they need to not only recognize and challenge their gifted learners, but also to support gifted students who underachieve. This book includes chapters dedicated to talents in language, math, and the arts.
Helps teachers know what to do when faced with a child in their mainstream class who is considered 'gifted and talented'. This book tells the stories of both the successful schools, identifying the characteristics of their teachers and managers, the available resources and of the children and families themselves.
Teachers are - rightly - exhorted to challenge children so as to help them maximise their abilities, broaden their horizons and increase their achievement. But what exactly are challenging activities? This book examines the notion of challenge and breaks down its different elements to determine practical ideas grounded in theory.
A practical guide to identifying and supporting young children who may be gifted or talented. This title explains how teachers and parents can promote the children's emotional and social adjustment, including ways to enhance self-esteem and support their autonomy. It is for parents and anyone working with or caring for a gifted or talented child.
Addresses the tension between high achievement and popularity in secondary schools, exploring the sociological impact of this in the lives of young people. This title looks at the relationships between gender, race and social class, and attainment and popularity, for high achieving pupils.
Offers a vision of provision for able, gifted and talented (AG&T) learners within the context of Every Child Matters (ECM) legislation and the drive to achieve personalised learning. Providing a summary of an increasingly important area of educational provision, this book offers the right balance of theory and practical strategies.
Based on international research and practice, this practical text enables the reader to identify highly able pupils with special needs, such as ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and Downs Syndrome, and then make provision for them within the mainstream school.
How can we provide challenges for the gifted and talented primary school pupil in an inclusive classroom setting? This book shows the busy teacher how to challenge able children in their mixed-ability class - where time and resources are usually limited. It includes sections on creating a working environment that helps more able pupils to thrive.
Brings parents and carers with new developments on the thinking and provision for gifted children. This book advises how to provide able children with the very best opportunities by working in partnership with schools and specialist organizations. It includes imaginative activities to challenge and stimulate able and talented children.
This work incorporates the identification of able children, strategies for combatting under-achievement, pastoral issues, school policy, monitoring and enrichment. Barry Teare covers theory, but importantly, he turns that theory into classroom practice.
A guide to the new ideas and controversies that are informing gifted education discussion and policy-making around the world. It highlights strategies to support giftedness in children, providing ideas that work and weeding out those that don't. It is suitable for students and researchers alike.
The authors of this book offer practical help to teachers in making day-to-day provision for the gifted and talented pupils in their classroom. The book draws together current findings in curriculum provision, and links theory and practice so that readers can benefit from exemplar material.
Using cartoons, diagrams, and visual prompts, this title offers teachers a coherent framework for G&T education, including five learning tools for running classrooms where all pupils are stretched, challenged and motivated and where gifts are created and grown, not identified and measured.
Schools universally are concerned with raising standards according to government requirements, particularly for those pupils who could be termed 'more able'. This book describes the strategies that have been developed to provide equal opportunities for various pupils whilst accommodating different individual needs and rates of development.
A treasury of stimulating and challenging photocopiable activities which can be used in a range of situations both within and beyond normal classroom lessons - differentiated homework, summer schools, cluster activities, clubs, societies and competitions.