Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers, Second Edition

© 2009 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers, Second Edition

Editor(s): Diane Montgomery

Published Online: 5 SEP 2012 05:52AM EST

Print ISBN: 9780470740972

Online ISBN: 9780470741252

DOI: 10.1002/9780470741252

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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

    1. You have free access to this content
      Front Matter (pages i–xiv)

  2. Part I: The Nature and Identification of Underachievement and the General Principles and Practices in Raising Achievement

    1. Chapter 1

      Why Do the Gifted and Talented Underachieve? How Can Masked and Hidden Talents Be Revealed? (pages 1–40)

      Diane Montgomery

    2. Chapter 2

      Literacy, Flexible Thinking and Underachievement (pages 41–57)

      Joan Freeman

    3. 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

    4. Chapter 4

      How Can Inclusive and Inclusional Understandings of Gifts/Talents Be Developed Educationally? (pages 85–110)

      Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable

    5. Chapter 5

      Effective Teaching and Learning to Combat Underachievement (pages 111–154)

      Diane Montgomery

    6. Chapter 6

      Changing the Teaching for the Underachieving Able Child: The Ruyton School Experience (pages 155–182)

      Lee Wills and John Munro

  3. Part II: Identifying and Making Provision for Different Groups of Underachievers

    1. Chapter 7

      Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Women and Girls - A Reprise (pages 183–199)

      Carrie Winstanley

    2. Chapter 8

      Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Boys (pages 201–218)

      Barry Hymer

    3. 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

    4. Chapter 10

      Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs - Underachievement in Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (pages 265–301)

      Diane Montgomery

    5. 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

    6. Chapter 12

      Case Studies of Three Schools Tackling Underachievement (pages 327–343)

      Diane Montgomery

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      Index (pages 345–356)

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