Making a Great Start with New Parents/Carers
This blog explores how schools can develop supportive, constructive partnerships with parents and carers to benefit their children. Schools and colleges are busy places with many [...]
10 Useful Things to Know About Supporting Pupils With Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME) In School
The term dual or multiple exceptionality (DME) is used in the UK to describe individuals who have both a special educational need or disability (SEND) and [...]
Professional Learning for High Learning Potential – Latest Research 2021
Ensuring young people with high potential thrive academically and socially Two recent research reports have drawn attention to the importance of high-quality professional [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Co-Planning Learning at Parliament Hill School
This blog on co-planning learning has been written by Denise and Sophia, pupils at Parliament Hill School in London. It accompanies advice sheet S14 Empowering High [...]
Don’t Miss…Growing Up Gifted
The series Growing Up Gifted returns to BBC2 tonight, March 25th, at 9.00p.m. with part two on Wednesday 1st April. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09s7mnh/episodes/guide This series follows six teenagers [...]
What Is Ofsted Looking For In Schools That Will Benefit Our Young People With High Learning Potential?
Ofsted is the inspection body for schools in England Back in March this year I wrote about Ofsted’s consultation on its proposed Education Inspection Framework and [...]
Recognising Excellent Practice for High Potential Learners
At the start of the 2019 academic year Potential Plus UK launched its High Learning Potential Best Practice Award. It was designed to enable schools to [...]
What’s a Valid Way to Select Students for a Gifted Programme? By Drs. Eleonoor W.J.M. van Gerven
Drs. Eleonoor van Gerven studied pedagogy at Nijmegen University (The Netherlands). She is managing director of Slim! Educatief, a private teacher education institute at post graduate [...]