Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Special Education - Gifted

This work presents a series of practical activities designed to help teachers build an effective science curriculum for more able children. Activities range from short discussion topics and problems to solve, to whole-day masterclasses.

How can primary and secondary schools best identify and provide for pupils with talents in the creative arts and sport? This book contains a range of practical and inclusive strategies to help schools enable and encourage pupils to make the most of their talents, including:

-a fresh look at definitions of talent

-advice on identifying talented pupils in primary and secondary schools

-information on the unique needs and characteristics of talented pupils

-guidance on the role of both in-school and out-of-school provision

-a whole-school audit, to...

Following the publication of the House of Commons Education Select Committee Report in 1999, the Department of Education and Employment has set up a number of initiatives, including Excellence in Cities, to address the problematic issues relating to provision for gifted and talented pupils in primary and secondary schools.

This book rehearses and develops further the central idea put forward by the authors in the first edition titled Educating Able Children that teachers remain the essential resource to ensure appropriate provision for gifted and talented pupils. They...

This book offers practical guidelines on how to identify gifted and talented young children and looks at ways to enhance their learning opportunities. Provided are a wealth of practical, tried and tested strategies that readers will be able to use in their classrooms with confidence.

It includes advice on how to create the right classroom environment, guidance on how to assess and record children's talents, a list of suggested appropriate resources, and help with planning the curriculum.

The emphasis is on creating a classroom environment that encourages...

Drawing on theories of child development and on research in the processes of learning, this book examines the challenges that children, parents and teachers may face at various stages of a child's development. Children whose development is unusual in any way may experience particular challenges in forming relationships and in making good progress in school. If we are to help children of exceptional ability to develop into confident and well-adjusted young people, we need to understand what lies behind many of the common frustrations and problems some of them may experience.

Able and Talented specialist Barry Teare brings parents and carers right up-to-date with new developments on the thinking and provision for gifted children. He advises how to provide able children with the very best opportunities by working in partnership with schools and specialist organizations. The book includes masses of imaginative activities to challenge and stimulate able and talented children.

Strengthen gifted girls' potential by exploring characteristics of girls' giftedness; factors affecting development; issues of resilience, self-efficacy, and personal ethics; and the importance of supportive adults.