Bullying and High Learning Potential
Being there for a young person singled out due to their ability What is Bullying? “Bullying is the repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group [...]
Critical Thinking Skills – a Detective Flair, from Arts to Sciences
How to Cultivate Good Judgement in Academic Work and Daily Life ‘Critical thinking’ means to ‘positively critique’; to successfully judge between fact and opinion, draw reasonable [...]
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 [...]
Learning about Learning with an Elephant
Non-confrontational lessons and insights from Kaavan the rescue elephant Kaavan’s mental journey is a marvellous and non-intimidating parallel that we can use to teach young people [...]
Clearly Able, Yet Complicated? – Might Your Child Have ‘DME’?
‘Unusual’ in both their potential and in their obstacles? Here is a simple guide to Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME). Is your child (or student) clearly [...]
5 Common Crises of Confidence
With a high potential learner, building confidence sometimes means taking one uneasy step at a time. Fortunately, with the right support it won’t be ‘a bridge [...]
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 [...]
Parenting Perfectionism
Perfectionism and high learning potential can, unfortunately, be an alarmingly snug fit. Up and down the land, parents of children with high learning potential will attest [...]
I Believe in Me!
Positive Self-Esteem for High Potential Learners – How to Help Them Believe and Thrive Self-esteem can be summarised as the opinion we have of ourselves. Positive [...]
The Importance of Drama in the Development of Children by Rachel Lewin
Often, when choosing GCSE options at school, students open up about their dilemmas – “I want to do Drama, but it clashes with something that my [...]