Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-470-77940-8

Paperback

370 pages

April 2009

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfil their potential, raising whole school standards.

Extensive new content includes the latest best practice in addressing able underachievement
Explains the origins of underachievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners - provides a model that identifies a range of factors that conspire to lower achievement
The UK Government's 2005 White Paper 'Higher Standards, Better Schools for All' set specific provision for Gifted and Talented (G&T) - there are similar programmes in all developed countries
The editor is a leading researcher in G&T education - contributors include Belle Wallace, Barry Hymer and Ian Warwick, the foremost practitioners in the field