Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers

Professor Diane Montgomery, PhD, is emeritus professor in Education at Middlesex University, London. She is a qualified and experienced teacher and teacher educator. Her doctorate was in improving teaching and learning, and she is a chartered psychologist specializing in research on giftedness and learning difficulties. She authored and ran three distance education MA programmes for Middlesex where she was formerly Dean of Faculty of Education and Performing Arts and Head of the School of Education. She writes MA Gifted Education, MA SEN, and MA SpLD (Dyslexia) programmes and runs the Learning Difficulties Research Project from her home in Essex. She has written more than 20 books and many articles on a range of education topics. She lectures nationally and internationally.

• Preface viiBiographies xiI THE NATURE AND IDENTIFICATION OF UNDERACHIEVEMENT AND THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES IN RAISING ACHIEVEMENT1 Why Do the Gifted and Talented Underachieve? How Can Masked and Hidden Talents Be Revealed? 3Diane Montgomery2 Literacy, Flexible Thinking and Underachievement 41Joan Freeman3 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 59Belle Wallace4 How Can Inclusive and Inclusional Understandings of Gifts/Talents Be Developed Educationally? 85Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable5 Effective Teaching and Learning to Combat Underachievement 111Diane Montgomery6 Changing the Teaching for the Underachieving Able Child: The Ruyton School Experience 155Lee Wills and John MunroII IDENTIFYING AND MAKING PROVISION FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF UNDERACHIEVERS7 Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Women and Girls – A Reprise 185Carrie Winstanley8 Understanding and Overcoming Underachievement in Boys 201Barry Hymer9 Improving the Quality of Identification, Provision and Support for Gifted and Talented Learners fromUnder-Represented Communities through PartnershipWorking 219Ian Warwick10 Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs – Underachievement in Dual and Multiple Exceptionality 265Diane Montgomery11 Using Assistive Technologies to Address theWritten Expression Needs of the Twice-exceptional Student 303William F. Morrison, Tara Jeffs and Mary G. Rizza12 Case Studies of Three Schools TacklingUnderachievement 327Diane MontgomeryIndex 345