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Teaching the Able Pupil
Graeme Kent
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Dec 96Stretch your bright pupils
A frequent recommendation of Ofsted reports is that schools strengthen their provision for supporting pupils of above average ability in particular subjects and/or across the curriculum. Extending bright pupils presents particular problems and this pack is sensitive both to these and the varied circumstances of different schools.
Teaching the Able Pupilcontains a range of materials for helping headteachers and senior staff to develop a school policy for meeting the needs of their most able pupils. The resource provides a step-by-step guide to the planning process – from reviewing existing practice, to implementing particular teaching programmes and compiling reports for Ofsted.
Catering for the most able children successfully requires a whole school approach which provides the necessary challenges, continuity and progression. Teaching the Able Pupil sets out to do just this.
Different approaches and methods are summarised, together with a discussion of key issues. Teacher support materials offer guidelines on classroom practice and how to identify pupils of above average ability.
Contents
- Introduction
- What is an able child?
- Identifying an able child
- Publicity
- The able child and curriculum subjects
- Helping an able child
- Preparing and evaluating programmes
- Enriching the curriculum
- The under-achieving able child
- Developing a policy
- OFSTED inspection materials
- Getting it right
- Further reading
About the author
Graeme Kent, M Phil, FCP, A Inst Ed, has taught in six primary schools and, for 18 years, was the headteacher of St Thomas’ C of E Primary School in Boston, Lincolnshire, which was rated by the Independent on Sunday as ‘one of Britain’s best schools’. He is the author of many educational books and has written and produced hundreds of educational broadcasting programmes, besides being a novelist and prize-winning playwright.
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