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Networking magazine, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2016
Many gifted and talented children are bored and frustrated in the classroom. They simply are not achieving their potential and their talents are going unrecognised. This is a practical guide, written by an experienced and world renowned educationalist with a wealth of experience. It will challenge, excite and inspire teachers, and it shows them how they can identify more clearly gifted and talented children, and provide for the needs of these children in their classroom.
Dr David George was formerly Associate Director of Nene College, the University of Northampton, and before that Dean of the Faculty of Science. He now pursues his special interest in the education of gifted and talented children. He is Founder President of the National Association for Able Children in Education and was a member of the Executive Committee of The World Council of Gifted and Talented Children, and a consultant to the British Council and UNESCO. He has lectured both nationally and internationally on the education of gifted and talented children. He is the author of The Challenge of the Able Child, Gifted Education: Identification and Provision, Making the Most of Your Abilities, and Enrichment Activities for More Able Pupils.
The practical way in which this topic is approached can be seen in the chapter headings: Gifted Underachievers, Identification Strategies, Provision, Self Esteem, and Very Young-Already-Gifted-Potentially Bored.
The last chapter is devoted to Parenting the Young, Gifted and Bored. First of all, however, you must read the introduction, rather than diving straightaway into the five chapters because within this lies the key to the book. This gives the raison d'etre for the need to look at gifted children in a variety of ways, it gives a strategic outline for teachers, and discusses all the detail that teachers at some stage in their careers, preferably very early on, so that recognition of these very able children will enhance the whole classroom experience.
George talks of the problems associated with gifted children, challenging situations, alternative learning styles, modern resources, varied teaching styles, and most of all, the education of the whole person. There is emphasis also on the many-faceted face of a child's learning, together with the influence of the home and of the child's peers. There is nothing about league tables!
The format of this book is encouraging for the reader, providing diagrams, tables, prompters, questions and exercises. It uses theoretical material well-known to teachers, such as De Bono, Maslow, Gardner, Bloom, and Renzulli, but the text is light and very readable.
I am prejudiced, but I think that copies of this books should be freely available in every staffroom and also be handy for governors. From my school, pupils and teachers became influenced by David George and his team in Northampton - bringing untold benefits not only to the pupils on the programme, but to many other areas of the curriculum.
Dr David George was formerly Associate Director of Nene College, the University of Northampton, and before that Dean of the Faculty of Science. He now pursues his special interest in the education of gifted and talented children. He is Founder President of the National Association for Able Children in Education and was a member of the Executive Committee of The World Council of Gifted and Talented Children, and a consultant to the British Council and UNESCO. He has lectured both nationally and internationally on the education of gifted and talented children. He is the author of The Challenge of the Able Child, Gifted Education: Identification and Provision, Making the Most of Your Abilities, and Enrichment Activities for More Able Pupils.
The practical way in which this topic is approached can be seen in the chapter headings: Gifted Underachievers, Identification Strategies, Provision, Self Esteem, and Very Young-Already-Gifted-Potentially Bored.
The last chapter is devoted to Parenting the Young, Gifted and Bored. First of all, however, you must read the introduction, rather than diving straightaway into the five chapters because within this lies the key to the book. This gives the raison d'etre for the need to look at gifted children in a variety of ways, it gives a strategic outline for teachers, and discusses all the detail that teachers at some stage in their careers, preferably very early on, so that recognition of these very able children will enhance the whole classroom experience.
George talks of the problems associated with gifted children, challenging situations, alternative learning styles, modern resources, varied teaching styles, and most of all, the education of the whole person. There is emphasis also on the many-faceted face of a child's learning, together with the influence of the home and of the child's peers. There is nothing about league tables!
The format of this book is encouraging for the reader, providing diagrams, tables, prompters, questions and exercises. It uses theoretical material well-known to teachers, such as De Bono, Maslow, Gardner, Bloom, and Renzulli, but the text is light and very readable.
I am prejudiced, but I think that copies of this books should be freely available in every staffroom and also be handy for governors. From my school, pupils and teachers became influenced by David George and his team in Northampton - bringing untold benefits not only to the pupils on the programme, but to many other areas of the curriculum.
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