Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: History


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Featuring comprehensive appendices and online resources, this book provides specific guidance on a range of aspects, including planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in history, and teacher questioning skills.




Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Science


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Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Science provides specific guidance on: recognising high ability and multiple intelligences planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment teacher questioning skills support for more able pupils with special educational needs (dyslexia, ADHD, sensory impairment) homework recording and assessment beyond the classroom: visits, competitions, summer schools, masterclasses, links with universities, businesses and other organisations. This book includes comprehensive appendices with linked resources available online that feature: useful contacts and resources lesson plans liaison sheets for Teaching Assistants homework activities monitoring sheets. This book is an essential resource for secondary teachers, subject heads of departments, Leading Teachers for G&T Education (Gifted and Talented co-ordinators), SENCos and LA advisers.




Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: MFL


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Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in Modern Foreign Languages covers the areas that all MFL teachers need to be aware of: Recent government legislation, national initiatives and departmental policy. The book provides subject specific guidance, illustrated with case studies on the following areas: support for more able students with learning difficulties (ADHD, dyslexia, sensory impairment) recognizing high potential or ability multiple intelligences and learning styles classroom provision planning differentiation, extension and enrichment teacher questioning skills homework recording and assessment beyond the classroom: visits, residentials, competitions, summer schools, masterclasses, links with universities, businesses and other organizations. Including access to online materials this book is essential reading for secondary teachers, subject heads of departments, Gifted and Talented co ordinators, SENCos and LA advisers.







Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in Religious Education


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Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Religious Education provides specific guidance on: recognising high ability and multiple intelligences planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in RE teacher questioning skills support for more able pupils with special educational needs (dyslexia, ADHD, sensory impairment) homework recording and assessment beyond the classroom: Visits, summer schools, masterclasses, links with universities, businesses and other organisations. This book includes comprehensive appendices with linked resources available online that feature: useful contacts and resources lesson plans liaison sheets for Teaching Assistants homework activities monitoring sheets. This book is essential for secondary teachers, subject heads of departments, leading teachers for G&T Education (Gifted and Talented co-ordinators), SENCos and LA advisers.




Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in Music


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Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in Music covers the areas that all music teachers need to be aware of: recent government legislation, national initiatives and departmental policy. Individual titles then provide subject specific guidance, illustrated with case studies, on the following areas: support for more able pupils with learning difficulties (dyslexia, ADHD, sensory impairment) recognizing high ability or potential multiple intelligences/learning styles classroom provision planning differentiation, extension/enrichment teacher questioning skills homework recording and assessment beyond the classroom: visits, residentials, competitions, summer schools, masterclasses, links with universities, businesses and other organizations. For secondary teachers, subject heads of Departments, Gifted and Talented coordinators, SENCOs and LEA advisers.




Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in Design and Technology


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Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in Design and Technology provides specific guidance on: recognizing high ability and multiple intelligences planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in D&T teacher questioning skills support for more able pupils with learning difficulties (dyslexia, ADHD, sensory impairment) homework recording and assessment beyond the classroom: visits, residentials, competitions, summer schools, masterclasses, link with universities, businesses and other organisations. The book features comprehensive appendices and an accompanying downloadable resources with: useful contacts and resources, lesson plans, liaison sheets for Teaching Assistants, homework activities and monitoring sheets. For secondary teachers, subject heads of departments, Gifted and Talented co-ordinators, SENCos and LEA advisers.




Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in Art


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Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Students in Art provides specific guidance on: Recognising high ability and multiple intelligences Planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in Art Teacher questioning skills Support for more able pupils with learning difficulties Homework Recording and assessment Beyond the classroom: visits, residentials, competitions, summer schools, masterclasses, links with other institutions. The book features comprehensive appendices and an accompanying CD with: Useful contacts and resources Lesson plans Liaison sheets for Teaching Assistants Homework activities Monitoring sheets For secondary teachers, subject heads of departments, Gifted and Talented co-ordinators, SENCos and LEA advisers.




Reassessing 'Ability' Grouping


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Presenting original quantitative and qualitative data from a large-scale empirical research project conducted in British secondary schools, Reassessing ‘Ability’ Grouping analyses the impact of attainment grouping on pupil outcomes, teacher effectiveness and social equality. Alongside a comprehensive account of existing literature and the international field, this book offers: Rigorous conceptual analysis of data A view of wider political debates on pupils' social backgrounds and educational attainment A discussion of the practicalities of classroom practice Recommendations for improved practice to maximise pupil outcomes, experiences and equity Vignettes, illustrative tables and graphs, as well as quotes from teacher interviews and pupil focus groups Addressing attainment grouping as an obstacle to raising pupil attainment, this book offers a distinctive, wide-ranging appraisal of the international field, new large-scale empirical evidence, and ‘close to practice’ attention to the practicalities and constraints of the classroom. Reassessing ‘Ability’ Grouping is an essential read for any practitioners and policymakers, as well as students engaged in the field of education and social justice.




How People Learn


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First released in the Spring of 1999, How People Learn has been expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning. Like the original edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methodsâ€"to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb. How People Learn examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. This new knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our current education system. Topics include: How learning actually changes the physical structure of the brain. How existing knowledge affects what people notice and how they learn. What the thought processes of experts tell us about how to teach. The amazing learning potential of infants. The relationship of classroom learning and everyday settings of community and workplace. Learning needs and opportunities for teachers. A realistic look at the role of technology in education.