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
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
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