Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers

by Montgomery, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780470740972
• ISBN10: 0470740973
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-20
• Publisher: Wiley

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Biographies	p. xi
The Nature and Identification of Underachievement and the General Principles and Practices in Raising Achievement
Why Do the Gifted and Talented Underachieve? How Can Masked and Hidden Talents Be Revealed?	p. 3
Literacy, Flexible Thinking and Underachievement	p. 41
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	p. 59
How Can Inclusive and Inclusional Understandings of Gifts/Talents Be Developed Educationally?	p. 85
Effective Teaching and Learning to Combat Underachievement	p. 111
Changing the Teaching for the Underachieving Able Child: The Ruyton School Experience	p. 155
Identifying and Making Provision for Different Groups of Underachievers
Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Women and Girls - A Reprise	p. 185
Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Boys	p. 201
Improving the Quality of Identification, Provision and Support for Gifted and Talented Learners from Under-Represented Communities through Partnership Working	p. 219
Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs - Underachievement in Dual and Multiple Exceptionality	p. 265
Using Assistive Technologies to Address the Written Expression Needs of the Twice-exceptional Student	p. 303
Case Studies of Three Schools Tackling Underachievement	p. 327
Index	p. 345
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