Gifted and talented: Leadership and school improvement

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• Excellence for All: A Gifted and Talented approach to whole-school improvement

  Secondary school leaders, Gifted and Talented (G+T) leading teachers, subject teachers and governors can use these tools, frameworks and resources to help develop G+T education as part of a whole-school approach to school improvement. This information is part of ‘Gifted and talented: Leadership and school improvement’.

  • About Excellence for All
  • Key concepts
  • Leadership and implementation
  • Enriching classroom experiences: Developing QFT
  • Planning effective interventions for the G+T target group
  • Continuing professional development: Support

• Excellence for All in practice

  A series of mini case studies that describe G&T practice in schools that improved provision for all, some achieving developing or exemplary standards according to the appropriate G&T Quality Standards and Ofsted criteria. This page provides an introduction to these mini case studies.

  • Use of pupil voice to develop evidence of Quality First teaching in school
  • Empowering G+T pupils as leaders of learning
  • Embedding critical thinking skills in the curriculum through teacher learning communities
  • Developing research skills – a project for pupils and teachers
  • Using G+T CQS to improve provision for all in Key Stage 3 science

• Academic study support

  Academic study support materials are a collection of useful strategies and tools for supporting potential G+T pupils who may have underachieved in the past, or may be in danger of underachieving. The focus is on skills needed by Key Stage 4 pupils but can be easily adapted for the needs of younger pupils.

  • Using a discussion framework to develop learning awareness in gifted and talented pupils
  • Focusing on the question set – an approach to improving pupils’ question analysis skills

• Addressing underachievement: Planning a whole-school approach

  This introduction to a whole-school approach to Gifted and Talented (G&T) education outlines the main principles of the programme and the need for a Quality First teaching environment which encourages specific and effective interventions for all G&T pupils.

  • Using these materials
  • Gifted and talented pupils: Narrowing the gaps
  • Recognising underachievement
  • Ethos and organisation
  • The three-waves model of intervention
  • Personalising programmes: Provision mapping
  • Transfer and transition

• Supporting leading teachers for gifted and talented education

  The aim of these professional development materials is to encourage schools to take a more strategic approach to identifying their gifted and talented pupils, to improve gifted and talented education in schools and settings and so improve the attainment, aspirations, motivation and self-esteem of gifted and talented pupils, especially those who are underachieving.

  • The school improvement cycle
  • Purpose of the professional development materials
  • How to use these materials
  • Session overviews

• Progression skills modules

  Get an overview of the purpose of progression skills modules.

  • About the progression skills modules
  • How do schools use these resources?