Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction

• 1. Policy and Practice in gifted and talented education
• 2. Review of evidence on effective teaching and learning of gifted and talented education

Section 2: Eight Case Studies

• A summary of the school’s contextual information
• The School G&T policy, including the role of the coordinator
• The Senior Management Team and Governing body stance and commitment
• The school’s environment, ethos and culture
• The students’ perceptions and their experience of the school culture, values and ethos
• Descriptions of Classroom Practice and Pedagogy
• Case study 1: Differentiated Teaching and Learning in an Urban Specialist School
• Case Study 2: Gifted Education in an Inner-City Multi-Ethnic Comprehensive
• Case Study 3: Teaching and Learning in a Rural Comprehensive
• Case Study 4: Personalised Learning in a Sixth Form College
• Case Study 5: Effective Teaching in a Girls Selective School
• Case Study 6: Effective Teaching in a Boys Selective School
• Case Study 7: Developing Talent in a Performing Arts School
• Case Study 8: Teaching and Learning On-line

Section 3: Analysis Cross case themes: issues arising for practitioners, school leadership, policy-makers and researchers

Section 4: Appendix on Research Methodology

Glossary

Bibliography