Table of Contents
Preface.
Biographies.
I THE NATURE AND IDENTIFICATION OF UNDERACHIEVEMENT AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES IN RAISING ACHIEVEMENT.
- 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).
II IDENTIFICATION AND MAKING PROVISION FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF UNDERACHIEVERS.
- Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Women and Girls - A Reprise (Carrie Winstanley).
- Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Boys (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 Technology 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).
Index.