Able Gifted And Talented Underachievers 2nd Edition Diane Montgomery Ed by Diane Montgomery (ed.) 9780470740972, 9780470741252, 0470740973, 0470741252 instant download after payment.

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Why Do the Gifted and Talented Underachieve? How Can Masked and Hidden Talents Be Revealed? (pages 1–40): Diane Montgomery
Chapter 2 Literacy, Flexible Thinking and Underachievement (pages 41–57): Joan Freeman
Chapter 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 (pages 59–84): Belle Wallace
Chapter 4 How Can Inclusive and Inclusional Understandings of Gifts/Talents Be Developed Educationally? (pages 85–110): Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable
Chapter 5 Effective Teaching and Learning to Combat Underachievement (pages 111–154): Diane Montgomery
Chapter 6 Changing the Teaching for the Underachieving Able Child: The Ruyton School Experience (pages 155–182): Lee Wills and John Munro
Chapter 7 Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Women and Girls ? A Reprise (pages 183–199): Carrie Winstanley
Chapter 8 Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Boys (pages 201–218): Barry Hymer
Chapter 9 Improving the Quality of Identification, Provision and Support for Gifted and Talented Learners from Under?Represented Communities Through Partnership Working (pages 219–263): Ian Warwick
Chapter 10 Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs ? Underachievement in Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (pages 265–301): Diane Montgomery
Chapter 11 Using Assistive Technologies to Address the Written Expression Needs of the Twice?exceptional Student (pages 303–325): William F. Morrison, Tara Jeffs and Mary G. Rizza
Chapter 12 Case Studies of Three Schools Tackling Underachievement (pages 327–343): Diane Montgomery