Raising Bright Sparks: Book 2 -Teaching Gifted Students

While teaching a postgraduate course in Gifted Education some years ago, I was struck by responses from a couple of teachers undertaking the course. One teacher announced at the start of the course that she had been teaching for thirty years and had never had a gifted student in her class. It quickly emerged that this teacher’s perception of a gifted student was significantly different to the characteristics and identification of gifted students, as taught within the Gifted Education course...