Fabulous Fascination Folders to Challenge Learners
Fascination Folders, a place where students can access more information and challenging activities about a topic, can be used in the classroom or electronically during remote [...]
Best Practice in Provision for Dual or Multiple Exceptional (DME) Learners
DME learners have one or more special educational need or disability alongside high ability or achievement. In her 2015 book, Teaching Gifted Children with Special Educational [...]
The vPlus Community is in Full Swing!
Potential Plus UK has received funding from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund, to offer a programme of online courses [...]
Extension and Enrichment in Learning
Extension and enrichment are two ways of making learning more challenging for learners with higher ability. This article discusses the difference between them and provides examples [...]
Metacognition and High Potential Learners
Metacognitive skills and self-regulation are being promoted in many schools at present, and rightly so. The Education Endowment Foundation’s research and analysis, chiming with findings across [...]
Rewriting the Writing Rule Book: Handwriting and High Learning Potential
As benign as pen and paper may appear to be, we have long since learned not to be fooled by the apparent innocence of the tree [...]
Creative Thinking Skills: Activities for Arts to Sciences
How to Support Innovative Young Mathematicians, Artists, Writers and Scientists How can you possibly stimulate the mind of a young person who not only has high [...]
From Sixth Form to University by Daniel Dipper, Year 13
As a Year 13 student who went through the admissions process last year, I know that applying to university can be a serious challenge. What I [...]
Urgent Improvement Needed: How the Exam Process Will Wreck the Chances of Thousands by Daniel Dipper, Year 13. GalleryUrgent Improvement Needed: How the Exam Process Will Wreck the Chances of Thousands by Daniel Dipper, Year 13.
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Urgent Improvement Needed: How the Exam Process Will Wreck the Chances of Thousands by Daniel Dipper, Year 13.
“I and thousands of students in a similar position to me across the country can only hope that Ofqual will do what every student does after [...]
How to Kick-Start Motivation
It is a myth that high potential learners are always motivated. True, their drive and enthusiasm can be powerful; however, when motivation wanes, how can they [...]