Able, gifted and talented underachievers / edited by Diane Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montgomery, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underachievers--Great Britain.

Underachievers.

School failure--Great Britain.

School failure.

Gifted children--Education--Great Britain.

Gifted children.

Gifted children--Education.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Summary:

Professor Diane Montgomery, PhD, is emeritus professor in Education at Middlesex University, London. She is a qualified and experienced teacher and teacher educator. Her doctorate was in improving teaching and learning, and she is a chartered psychologist specializing in research on giftedness and learning difficulties. She authored and ran three distance education MA programmes for Middlesex where she was formerly Dean of Faculty of Education and Performing Arts and Head of the School of Education.

She writes MA Gifted Education, MA SEN, and MA SpLD (Dyslexia) programmes and runs the Learning Difficulties Research Project from her home in Essex. She has written more than 20 books and many articles on a range of education topics. She lectures nationally and internationally.

Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers Second Edition explains the origins of underachievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners. It provides a model that identifies a range of external and internal factors that work in concert to lower achievement. Formal tests identify some underachievers but more than two-thirds remain unidentified and other strategies are needed, in particular cognitive-based curriculum challenge and performance-based realistic assessment. Underachievement may also be masked by learning disabilities and socio-emotional and behavioural difficulties. All of these can form barriers to learning that can be overcome with appropriate teaching and learning strategies. These problems and relevant strategies for intervention are explained in the book.

Research underpinning identification, intervention and remediation is detailed, including recent research by Diane Montgomery to show the current nature and range of the problems in ordinary schools. The final chapters contain case material from schools that have been proved successful in lifting underachievement and shows how they have succeeded. This is entirely new material based upon research undertaken for NACE/London Gifted and Talented led by Belle Wallace.

Contents:

Why do the gifted and talented underachieve? : how can masked and hidden talents be revealed? / Diane Montgomery

Literacy, flexible thinking and underachievement / Joan Freeman

What do we mean by an 'enabling curriculum' that raises achievement for all learners? : an examination of the TASC problem-solving framework : thinking actively in a social context / Belle Wallace

How can inclusive and inclusional understandings of gifts/talents be developed educationally? / Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable

Effective teaching and learning to combat underachievement / Diane Montgomery

Changing the teaching for the underachieving able child : the Ruyton School experience / Lee Wills and John Munro

Understanding and overcoming underachievement in women and girls : a reprise / Carrie Winstanley

Understanding and overcoming boys' underachievement / Barry Hymer

Improving the quality of identification, provision and support for gifted and talented learners from under-represented communities through partnership working / Ian Warwick

Gifted and talented children with special educational needs : underachievement in dual and multiple exceptionality / Diane Montgomery

Using assistive technologies to address the written expression needs of the twice-exceptional student / William F. Morrison, Tara Jeffs, and Mary G. Rizza

Case studies of three schools tackling underachievement / Diane Montgomery.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Able underachievers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470740972

0470740973

9780470779408

0470779403

OCLC:

255901633