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Provision for higher ability and gifted Students

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Jake Tomsett

Revised the terms 'more able' and 'most able', replaced it with Higher Ability People.

  • HAP+ Significantly above average students.

  • HAP

  • Pupil Premium


HAP - High ability People

MAP - Mid ability People

LAP - Low Ability People


What characteristics do you see in your subject in terms of HAP students?


  • Can articulate well

  • Open to new ideas

  • Takes pride in efficient/clear/organised presentation

  • Can have low attention in lessons

  • Creative

  • Focussed

  • Come up with innovative solutions

  • Applies themselves to one or multiple subjects


There's a range of characteristics between HAP students.

The important thing to do as a teacher is to encourage engagement through challenge.


How do we provide for higher ability students?

What examples of good practice have you seen?


  • Letting students take the lead

  • Utilising the understanding of HAP to facilitate the learning of LAP

  • Probing HAP students to Analyse and Develop ideas


What examples of poor practice have you seen?


  • Using Stretch and challenge to fill time rather than challenge and push students

  • Often behaviour management, and disengaged students can distract majority of attention.


Teach to the top, scaffold down. Low attainment is bred from scaffolding too low.

Students get more out of lessons that are scaffolded for higher attainment and challenge.

Aim to challenge, not to demonstrate.

Questioning is so important.

Question beyond basic understanding.

Probing

"Give me another detail on your answer?"


Five steps to ask probing questions


Process

"Why do you say that?, what journey did you take to get there?"


Five steps to ask process questions:


Always aim for one thing with one class (minimum)



 

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