Help Your Talented Child
An Essential Guide for Parents
1st Edition
Published on 9. June 2007
112 pages
978-1-85539-518-3 (ISBN)
Description
Able and Talented specialist Barry Teare brings parents and carers right up-to-date with new developments on the thinking and provision for gifted children. He advises how to provide able children with the very best opportunities by working in partnership with schools and specialist organizations. The book includes masses of imaginative activities to challenge and stimulate able and talented children.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
55
ISBN-13
978-1-85539-518-3 (9781855395183)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
06/2007
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Person
Barry Teare is respected in the field of effective learning for the able and talented. For many years he has been involved in teacher training concerned with provision for able and talented children, and has worked with these children in many areas of the country. He was recently a member of the government's advisory group in this field.
Content
Introduction
Section 1: Issues
What's in a name?
The present state of play
What can be expected
Two-way communication
How the school might identify your child as able and talented
All sorts of abilities
The central place of thinking skills
Challenge for progress
Different ways of working
The golden component that is time
Homework
Presentation and spelling
Changing schools
Looking after your able child
Able underachievers
Section 2: Getting Further Advice and Help
Specific subject advice, resources and help
Art
Drama
English
Geography
History
Mathematics
Modern foreign languages
Music
PE, sport and dance
Religious education, philosophy and citizenship
Science
Technology (food, textiles, design)
Section 3: Some Recommended Children's Fiction
Section 1: Issues
What's in a name?
The present state of play
What can be expected
Two-way communication
How the school might identify your child as able and talented
All sorts of abilities
The central place of thinking skills
Challenge for progress
Different ways of working
The golden component that is time
Homework
Presentation and spelling
Changing schools
Looking after your able child
Able underachievers
Section 2: Getting Further Advice and Help
Specific subject advice, resources and help
Art
Drama
English
Geography
History
Mathematics
Modern foreign languages
Music
PE, sport and dance
Religious education, philosophy and citizenship
Science
Technology (food, textiles, design)
Section 3: Some Recommended Children's Fiction
