Description
Book Synopsis''Gifted and talented'' is a zombie. It is dead, but still walking around. There are new labels to stratify students - ''more able'', ''significantly able'', ''high-aptitude learners''. New labels do not equal new thinking. The concept of ''gifted'' is still stubbornly embedded in our educational structures, with its legacy of social immobility, racism and sexism. Students can be ''more able'' when they have more financial resources, more access, more visibility, or more cultural acceptance. There are pervasive narratives that educators should prioritise extension for some students and not others. We can dispel the myth that pitching lessons judiciously to ''middle ability'', and then differentiating up and down, is effective.
This book explores how we can provide every student with rigorous challenge. Challenge for all is an inclusive approach to teaching, whereby every student is invited, and given the tools, to reach a place of mastery. This can be through project-based le
