Educating Students with High Ability

Teachers frequently focus less attention on highly able, bright, clever or gifted students than on other students. Perceived to be academically succesful, these children often appear not to require much teacher assistance. However, these students do have needs, and this book seeks to explain what these are and ways in which teachers can begin to meet them, even when working in difficult circumstance with little support.

This revised, second edition has been expanded and update to include new material that will stimulate and inspire teachers dealing with high-ability children. It includes chapters on identication of high ability and the impact of that identification, unrecognized ability, teaching methods, underachievement, student-teacher relations, organization of learning, gender and culture, general advice to teachers, parental and community involvement, and Local Education Authority and Government support.