Gifted and talented education is at a crossroads. Turn right and speed
off down the motorway, only to be frustrated by the rush-hour traffic
of identification, strategies, tests, labels, targets and anxious
children. Turn left on to the road less travelled, and there’s no
crazed rush to a destination; rather a journey during which you can
stop off frequently, take in the views, and enjoy the sensations and
experiences that come with a focus on the processes, not just the
products of learning. The Gifted & Talented Pocketbook turns left at
the crossroads. Using cartoons, diagrams, and visual prompts to
support the text, it offers teachers a coherent framework for G&T
education, including five learning tools for running classrooms where
all pupils are stretched, challenged and motivated and where gifts are
created and grown, not identified and measured. The book considers
definitions of giftedness, whether gifts are ‘caught’ or taught
and whether giftedness is fixed or malleable. It highlights the role
of intrinsic learning motivation when it comes to achieving high
levels of success. The GRACE framework -Grow! Relate! Act! Challenge!
Exert! - offers ideas for lessons, implications for policy and
explains how to use five learning tools to stimulate considered,
reflective learning: Logo Visual Thinking, Philosophy for Children,
Thinking Actively in a Social Context, Dilemma-Based Learning, and
Living Theory Action Research. Author Barry Hymer, a former teacher
and ed. psych., is now a consultant and trainer in the field of gifted
and talented education. He is consultant editor of Gifted Education
International and a visiting fellow at Newcastle University’s Centre
for Learning and Teaching.
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ISBN
9781908284891
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Teachers' Pocketbooks
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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