A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfil their potential, raising whole school standards. - Extensive new content includes the latest best practice in addressing able underachievement
- Explains the origins of underachievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners - provides a model that identifies a range of factors that conspire to lower achievement
- The UK Government's 2005 White Paper 'Higher Standards, Better Schools for All' set specific provision for Gifted and Talented (G&T) - there are similar programmes in all developed countries
- The editor is a leading researcher in G&T education - contributors include Belle Wallace, Barry Hymer and Ian Warwick, the foremost practitioners in the field
Table of Contents:
Preface vii
Biographies xi
I THE NATURE AND IDENTIFICATION OF UNDERACHIEVEMENT AND THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES IN RAISING ACHIEVEMENT
1 Why Do the Gifted and Talented Underachieve? How Can Masked and Hidden Talents Be Revealed? 3
Diane Montgomery
2 Literacy, Flexible Thinking and Underachievement 41
Joan Freeman
3 What Do We Mean by an ‘Enabling Curriculum’ That Raises Achievement for All Learners? An Examination of the TASC Problem-Solving Framework: Thinking Actively in a Social Context 59
Belle Wallace
4 How Can Inclusive and Inclusional Understandings of Gifts/Talents Be Developed Educationally? 85
Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable
5 Effective Teaching and Learning to Combat Underachievement 111
Diane Montgomery
6 Changing the Teaching for the Underachieving Able Child: The Ruyton School Experience 155
Lee Wills and John Munro
II IDENTIFYING AND MAKING PROVISION FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF UNDERACHIEVERS
7 Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Women and Girls – A Reprise 185
Carrie Winstanley
8 Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Boys 201
Barry Hymer
9 Improving the Quality of Identification, Provision and Support for Gifted and Talented Learners from
Under-Represented Communities through PartnershipWorking 219
Ian Warwick
10 Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs – Underachievement in Dual and Multiple Exceptionality 265
Diane Montgomery
11 Using Assistive Technologies to Address theWritten Expression Needs of the Twice-exceptional Student 303
William F. Morrison, Tara Jeffs and Mary G. Rizza
12 Case Studies of Three Schools TacklingUnderachievement 327
Diane Montgomery
Index 345
