| Description |
xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Special needs in ordinary schools |
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Special needs in ordinary schools.
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| Contents |
1. The nature of ability and talent -- 2. Identifying the able -- 3. Curriculum provision for the able: acceleration, enrichment and differentiation -- 4. Teaching for critical thinking and metacognitive processes -- 5. Cognitive process specialist programmes -- 6. Teaching the able in higher education: teaching the teachers -- 7. Helping the underfunctioning able -- Epilogue: educating the able into the twenty-first century |
| Summary |
The purpose of this book is to enable teachers to develop explicit criteria for identifying and helping able pupils. After discussing the nature of ability and talent and identifying the able child, Diane Montgomery examines curriculum provision, paying particular attention to the National Curriculum and surveying different types of provision: acceleration, enrichment and differentiation. She then describes methods of teaching for critical thinking. The book ends with a chapter on helping the underfunctioning able child. Throughout, there are numerous examples and practical suggestions. Teachers in primary and secondary schools as well as in higher education will find this book invaluable both as an introduction to the area and as a source of ideas |
| Analysis |
Gifted students |
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Great Britain |
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Gifted students |
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Great Britain |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p220-237. -Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Gifted children -- Education -- Great Britain.
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Gifted children -- Education.
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Underachievers -- Education -- Great Britain.
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| LC no. |
97130176 |
| ISBN |
0304325872 (paperback) |
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0304335983 (hbk.) |
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