An unprecedented collaboration between leading names from the independent and state sectors, this thought-provoking book addresses the current crisis in education for the most able. Grounded in the classroom, the authors draw on their own first-hand experiences and international research to scrutinise techniques and practices from leading countries, exploring the more divisive issues that have damaged teaching worldwide. Demonstrating what works well in teaching the most able, and also what does not work, the book offers a radical solution, a stimulus to thought and a way forward for teachers, academics and all those with responsibility for ensuring high standards in education, including governments and members of regulatory authorities.
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Two leading names from the independent and state sectors draw on their own first-hand experiences and international research to scrutinize what works and does not work in teaching the most able students and offer thought-provoking suggestions for a way forward.
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Section 1: Background
A Note on our Methodology
The Global Picture: History and Oversight
The Local Picture: The UK
Section 2: Techniques
Techniques, and the Renzulli Approach
Acceleration and Compaction
The Robinson Center for Young Scholars
Enrichment and Add-In
Out of Class Enrichment, the Internet and Summer Schools
The Genius Programme, Competitions and Tertiary Links
Specialist Schools and the Issue of Selection
Teacher Training, Resources and the Cluster Approach
Disadvantage, Gender and Ability As An Illness
Section 3: Countries
The PISA Tables, UK, Finland and South Korea
Singapore, Hong Kong
Australia
United States of America
Section 4: Future Directions
Core Issues
A Proposal for the UK
The Future: Creativity, Critical Thinking and Mindfulness
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Well-travelled, and often polemical, the authors have achieved a triumph of collaboration. The strength of the book is in their shared and uncompromising view that the most able are being ignored in the UK. They are right and they must be heard.
The well read, left-wing reformer and the free-thinking establishment heavyweight have done their homework. Instead of getting lost in the debate about identifying the most able, they have pursued a practical path and toured the world to find out what more can, and should, be done. Instead of concluding that the solutions are complex, they have concluded that the solutions are many.
This results in a refreshing perspective and it might just be enough to stir all of us in schools to wake up, get up off our seats and do something for a change.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781473907942
Publisert
2015-03-19
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
600 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240