Leading Improvement for Gifted and Talented Students

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>School leaders are tasked with assisting students to make the next steps in their learning journeys regardless of the students' starting points. For students who are struggling the next steps are often clear but for students who are achieving beyond the expected level it can be difficult to know how best to challenge them.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Leading improvement for gifted and talented students</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)> provides a framework for a set of high-impact strategies that individually and together can be the focus of improving high-level outcomes for gifted and talented students across the school.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Professor John Munro brings his considerable experience to this complex problem addressing the theoretical understandings of how high-ability students flourish and the practical requirements of meeting the needs of these students in today's classrooms.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Key chapters discuss what high ability looks like what high-level outcomes are how to identify students who display high-level outcomes in fields beyond literacy and numeracy and how school leaders can equip their educators with the ability to differentiate both the curriculum and their teaching.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Topics such as twice-exceptional students classroom culture students from diverse backgrounds and social and emotional wellbeing are also addressed as part of a whole-school strategy for enhancing educational provision for high-ability students.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Leading improvement for gifted and talented students</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)> is an essential evidence-based resource for all school leaders who wish to ensure that every child achieves their full potential. </span></p>