Table of Contents

Preface.

Biographies.

I THE NATURE AND IDENTIFICATION OF UNDERACHIEVEMENT AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES IN RAISING ACHIEVEMENT.

1. Why Do the Gifted and Talented Underachieve? How Can Masked and Hidden Talents Be Revealed (Diane Montgomery)?
2. Literacy, Flexible Thinking and Underachievement (Joan Freeman).
3. 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).
4. How Can Inclusive and Inclusional Understandings of Gifts/Talents Be Developed Educationally (Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable)?
5. Effective Teaching and Learning to Combat Underachievement (Diane Montgomery).
6. Changing the Teaching for the Underachieving Able Child: The Ruyton School Experience (Lee Wills and John Munro).

II IDENTIFICATION AND MAKING PROVISION FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF UNDERACHIEVERS.

7. Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Women and Girls - A Reprise (Carrie Winstanley).
8. Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Boys (Barry Hymer).
9. Improving the Quality of Identification, Provision and Support for Gifted and Talented Learners from Under-Represented Communities through Partnership Working (Ian Warwick).
10. Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs-Underachievement in Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (Diane Montgomery).
11. Using Assistive Technology to Address the Written Expression Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student (William F. Morrison, Tara Jeffs, and Mary G. Rizza).
12. Case Studies of Three Schools Tackling Underachievement (Diane Montgomery).

Index.