Leading Improvement for Gifted and Talented Students

School leaders are tasked with assisting students to make the next steps in their learning journeys, regardless of the students’ starting points. For students who are struggling, the next steps are often clear, but for students who are achieving beyond the expected level, it can be difficult to know how best to challenge them.

Leading improvement for gifted and talented students provides a framework for a set of high-impact strategies that individually and together can be the focus of improving high-level outcomes for gifted and high-ability students across the school. Professor John Munro brings his considerable experience to this complex problem, addressing the theoretical understandings of how high-ability students flourish and the practical requirements of meeting their needs in today’s classrooms.

Key chapters discuss:

• what high ability looks like
• what high-level outcomes are
• how to identify students who display high-level outcomes in fields beyond literacy and numeracy
• how school leaders can equip their educators to differentiate the curriculum and their teaching.

Topics such as twice-exceptional students, classroom culture, students from diverse backgrounds and social and emotional wellbeing are also addressed as part of a whole-school strategy for enhancing educational provision for high-ability students.

Leading improvement for gifted and talented students is an essential evidence-based resource for all school leaders, to ensure that every child achieves their full potential.