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Effective teaching for gifted and talented students is high on the agenda of school systems across the world. Written by leading international scholars in the field, Effective Teaching in Gifted Education presents a thoroughly enlightening analysis of the practice of schools judged to be outstanding in their effective teaching of gifted and talented students. Eight in-depth case studies draw upon the voices of school leaders, classroom teachers and students to illustrate and explore Gifted and Talented provision across a range of educational settings and circumstances, including: differentiated teaching and learning in an urban City Technology College gifted education in an inner-city, multi-ethnic school and a rural comprehensive school school ethos, student voice and motivation in a girls' grammar school curricular depth, enrichment and interactive teaching in a boys' grammar school learning in a residential summer school for gifted students. Providing a rich evidence base, these and other examples place best practice within a framework of theory and policy. School leaders, Gifted and Talented Co-ordinators and classroom practitioners reading this book will understand the principles behind the practice, as well as how and why to apply the practice in their own schools. This distinctive book will also be immensely useful to all those involved with Gifted and Talented education programmes and schemes and those following Continuing Professional Development and school leadership programmes, as well as NQTs, M-level students and researchers in education.
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Effective Teaching in Gifted Education
Using a whole school approach
Wendy Robinson and Jim Campbell
First published 2010 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. © 2010 Wendy Robinson and Jim Campbell All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robinson, Wendy. Effective teaching in gifted education: using a whole-school approach / Wendy Robinson and Jim Campbell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1Gifted children—Education. 2. Teachers of gifted children. I. Campbell, Jim. II. Title. LC3993+ 371.95’6—dc22 2009039115 ISBN 0-203-85506-X Master e-book ISBN
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Contents
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations
ix xi xii
PART I
Policy, theory and practice in gifted and talented education 1 Gifted and talented education in England 1999–2009: policy framework and aims The policy framework 3 The ‘English’ model 8 The model in practice 9 Evidence of impact 10 Problematising the nature of giftedness and its assessment in the English model 11 Unresolved problems for teachers and other professionals 12 Conclusion 17 2 Personalised learning: theory and practice Personalisation in the public services: theories and ambiguities 19 Personalisation and education 22 Person