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- Improve achievement
- Stretch your able students
- Coordinate gifted and talented provision
Make a real difference
Given all the pressures currently placed on schools, it is hard to cater for each individual student, and gifted and talented students are one group that can easily be overlooked.
The Gifted and Talented in... series contains everything you need to take a coordinated approach to gifted and talented provision, ensuring that each student can make the most of their unique abilities. If offers whole school and departmental guidance to help schools to:
- evaluate and then improve their existing provision
- keep track of which students are gifted and talented
- raise achievement in the higher ability cohort
- support staff who work with able students
- offer appropriate personalised learning to students.
Take a whole school approach
The introductory CD-ROM in the series, Gifted and Talented in Your School, includes the following topics:
- About – Background information on the gifted and talented initiative.
- Manage – Guidance on managing provision.
- Process – The cycle of improving practice.
- Identify – Ways to identify able students.
- Provide – How to support and stretch able students.
- Theory – A summary of research about intelligence and learning styles.
- Support – Catering for students’ social and emotional needs.
There is then a CD-ROM for each curriculum department – either encourage your colleagues to purchase their own disc, or buy the series for the school at a substantially reduced price.
Subject-specific, department-led
Each CD-ROM in the Gifted and Talented in... series offers a head of department:
- a sample policy on gifted and talented provision in the department
- audits using the Classroom Quality Standards (CQS), where applicable
- advice on how the department’s existing resources may cover the CQS
- tried-and-tested approaches to gifted and talented provision.
A range of handy checklists and handouts is also included, and all the material can be adapted to meet the department’s particular needs.
Focused support for able students
The Gifted and Talented in... series looks at how individual subject departments can help each student develop their full potential. The material includes:
- a student register, in which the department can record why each student was selected as ‘gifted and talented’, and on what evidence the decision was based
- guidance on how to track students’ progress and balance the demands placed on them
- advice on how to run a stimulating programme of activities which keeps students motivated
- advice on offering gifted and talented material as part of an extended schools programme
- tips on how to stimulate a wider appreciation of the subject.
Ready-to-use material
Finding specialist resources for gifted and talented students can be difficult. The Gifted and Talented in... series is designed to help staff provide focused, personalised material for their students that:
- is practical and easy to use
- can be used straight away in the classroom
- supports students through enrichment, extension and/or acceleration.
This includes a selection of ready-to-use curriculum resources for KS3 and KS4/GCSE in each subject.
Site licence included
Each CD-ROM comes with a full site licence, so the material can be placed on a network and distributed freely within your school.
Gifted and Talented in Your School
95+VAT
Apr 08Guidance on whole school issues to do with gifted and talented provision, including how to oversee and support the provision for able students in key subject departments.
Gifted and Talented in Art and Design
A CD-ROM to help staff support gifted and talented art and design students, through a set of carefully selected material.
Gifted and Talented in Drama
This invaluable CD-ROM offers real help to the drama department on how best to support gifted and talented students.
Gifted and Talented in English
Support for English departments in fostering able students in English language and literature.
Gifted and Talented in Mathematics
A handy CD-ROM offering mathematics departments a range of guidance and ready-to-use classroom resources to support able mathematics students.
Gifted and Talented in Music
Support able music students through a set of handy resources, all provided on one CD-ROM.
Gifted and Talented in Physical Education
An ideal way to help able students in a range of sporting activities, across the PE department.
Gifted and Talented in Science
A key resource for helping gifted and talented students reach their full potential in science.