The phrase
"able students" refers to students who are intelligent, talented, and have a high capability to learn and perform well in their studies.
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Activities include comprehension questions as a «learning focus» with differentiation and changes for extension for
more able students.
But just how well does this practice identify and address the learning needs of individual learners, including the
most able students in our schools?
The first is for younger or less
able students in which they choose three of the elements and draw examples of each.
Develop the confidence of your less
able students from year 8 with these varieties of questions, touching on all the strands in the new curriculum.
The second is for older or more
able students who draw an artwork using the elements and write an explanation of how they have used each element in their artwork.
It is interesting to speculate whether these responses might have been influenced by a desire to give a socially acceptable answer, or, alternatively, a wish to claim association
with able students.
I usually pick the most
able students as peer teachers and the whole class enjoys a «day off» from their normal teacher.
It's all about paying attention, and some of my less
able students pay much closer attention than some of the students who think they know it all already.
The most troublesome of these is a strong bias in classroom observations that leads to teachers who are assigned more
able students receiving better observation scores.
This will help less
able students build their creative writing skills or for the independent school creative exam revision.
When there are peer effects in education, private schools have an incentive to vary tuition to attract
relatively able students.
Sometimes, it is the less
able students who dare to ask for clarification when they don't understand something.
There are also extension tasks in the lesson for stretching the more
able students as well as differentiated material to support those who need it.
While all participating students improved their science knowledge, the results were particularly notable for
less able students.
«Each year across the country, there are a number of
highly able students within primary schools who do not fulfil their potential when they transfer to secondary school.
Placing students of similar ability together certainly makes for easier and more efficient instruction; the more
able students do not need to wait for the slow ones to catch up, and the slow ones are not made to feel inadequate in comparison with the fast ones.
There is anecdotal evidence that, rather than being given challenges in their zones of proximal development, many
very able students in our schools are being assigned the same year - level work as the rest of their class.
It concludes by comparing performance between highly
able students at grammar schools and top comprehensives.
Despite insistence to the contrary, many educators are also biased against academic ability, frustrated by their apparently inability to move underperforming or
differently abled students while they are intimidated by highly gifted students.
My colleagues and I have now shown repeatedly that students who believe their intelligence can grow learn more, acquire deeper knowledge and do better — especially in hard subjects and in negotiating difficult school transitions — compared with
equally able students who believe their intelligence is a fixed trait.
Using the author's 30 years of research into how the most
able students think and learn, it identifies the competencies students need to develop in order to be successful and the ways in which schools — and parents - can develop them.
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We recognise gifted and talented students and also take into
consideration able students when looking at students who will go onto the AGT register.
«Steinbeck offers a lot for more
able students too with his references to light and noise and his presentation of the six clear scenes in a cyclical style.»
Use of these instruments over the past 25 years has continued to demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency in
discerning able students» range of functioning in critical domains (Benbow & Stanley, 1996).
And it works - in Finland there is less variation between the most and
least able students than anywhere else in the world.
This digest presents two strategies to help highly
able students get more out of school.
According to Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, the new grading scheme runs the risk of
discouraging able students.
In most cases, there is little evidence that anyone has given any thought to what skills and
concepts able students need that are missing from the regular curriculum and how those skills and concepts should be organized.»
Monday's briefing will also confirm that Mr Gove has dropped plans for a two - tier exam system - with more academically -
able students taking an O - level type exam and the rest taking an easier test.
Many of these universities also emphasise their selection process in choosing strong, academically -
able students suited to this challenging degree.
Except, one could argue that grammar schools cause there to be
fewer able students in non-grammars.
In Maine, [5] Illinois, [6] and Colorado, [7] researchers have shown that a universal test uncovers many
academically able students.
«Special educational needs» are defined in the Act as referring to the needs of students who have a disability and the educational needs of exceptionally able students