For higher ability students who can cope with complex language and are looking into ways to score higher marks in language in their exams.
It is aimed
at Higher ability students who have been taught to recognise graphs of other functions and to translate, stretch and reflect functions.
Lesson particularly focuses
on High Ability students with key analysis and evaluation questioned designed to challenge students.
More likely, however, is that people are very focused on poorer students who receive pupil premium than they are
on high ability students.
The LoS model guides you in meeting the needs
of high ability students across many talent areas and in blending gifted education with your total school program.
«Recent studies have also identified the materials that are most appropriate for use with
high ability students in elementary science programs, citing those that provide a balance of content and process considerations, including an emphasis on original student investigations, concept development, and interdisciplinary applications.
These studies also suggest that the pedagogy of the SEM can be applied to various content areas resulting in higher achievement when implemented in a wide variety of settings, and when used with diverse populations of students
including high ability students with learning disabilities and underachievers.
Defenders of tracking, on the other hand, argue that
high ability students languish in mixed ability classes, that it is nearly impossible, for example, for teachers to lead students through the plot twists of King Lear while simultaneously instructing in phonics.
My belief is that for every individual student every grade matters and will definitely bear an impact on the rest of their life, but will the «thresholds of inequality» in the new Progress 8 weighting bias force schools to
prioritise higher ability students over others?
Students of high ability placed with other
high ability students increase in their: self - confidence, achievement, attitude toward school, and their attitude toward the subject matter (1999).
For example, XYZ grouping, in which little or no effort is made to adjust curriculum to the ability level of the classes, raise the test scores of
higher ability students by about 0.1 standard deviations, or by about 1 month on grade - equivalent scale.
In terms of differentiation, earlier stages of the investigation (looking at the patterns in the square numbers) may be more suitable for lower ability learners whereas the latter stages of the investigation (finding the nth term of a quadratic sequence) should
stretch higher ability students.
At the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, the past six years has been spent addressing issues of appropriate science curriculum and instruction
for high ability students as well as melding those ideas to the template of curriculum reform for all students in science.
Recent studies have also identified the materials that are most appropriate for use with
high ability students in elementary science programs (Johnson, Boyce, & VanTassel - Baska, 1995), citing those that provide a balance of content and process considerations, including an emphasis on original student investigations, concept development, and interdisciplinary applications.
One of the consequences of it not being addressed is that teachers who understand how the system works and value high evaluation scores will do their best to be assigned to schools
with high ability students, and within schools will do their best to get assigned the best students.
A lesson Plan and resources including Simile Bingo, a Computer - based Task Sheet and a differentiated Work Sheet for lower ability students plus a Challenge for
higher ability students.
Higher ability students can then move to giving advice / solutions to avoid the bad things from being an issue.
For
the Higher ability students you should follow the HA link and Lower abilities follow the LA link on the slides.
The lesson includes an extension challenge for
higher ability students (fully differentiated by outcome, task and resources available to students).
This is a lesson aimed at mid to
high ability students.
This lesson suitable for mid to
high ability students.
The lesson is also differentiated for lower and
higher ability students.
The worksheets will help with empirical formulae calculations (there is a help sheet if needed for weaker students) however there is also a stretch and challenge task on Ions for
higher ability students to complete to differentiate.
Suitable for
higher ability students.
The lesson is differentiated for both low ability and
high ability students.
Suitable for intermediate or
higher ability students.
It is colour coded linked to the AOs, features clear success criteria for each task, and offers a «going for gold» extension to push
the higher ability students.
There is a chance for students to be creative by writing a diary entry from the perspective of one of the Varnas and an interactive plenary focusing on the Atman, This lesson is particularly relevant for
high ability students.
Includes two different worksheets - one with hints and tips to help students, and another one without help for
higher ability students.
There are three versions of the worksheet which have been differentiated for lower, mid and
high ability students.
Stretch Yourself activities for
high ability students.