Listening to Able Underachievers

Creating Opportunities for Change

Michael Pomerantz, Kathryn Ann Pomerantz (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2017
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-138-16352-2 (ISBN)

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This book provides a new contribution to raising attainment in secondary schools, with specific reference to able underachievers who are currently achieving C grades or less when they could be getting As. Standards are depressed each time a single able underachiever demonstrates a competence that is below his or her real potential. It lowers morale in that the progress of the whole school is reduced proportionately in line with the able pupils who aren't achieving their real potential, and resources are wasted every time these pupils start misbehaving or creating problems in school.

This is a new and innovative approach, which is based on discussions with the pupils themselves and incorporates not just the usual basic subjects but also the creative areas of the curriculum and the wider community as a whole.

Head teachers, senior managers, teachers and students, indeed all who are interested in raising standards and ensuring that pupils achieve their full potential will find this book to be an excellent resource.

Michael Pomerantz, Kathryn Anne Pomerantz

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction to the study of able underachievers; Teachers communicating with able underachievers; Developing relationships with peers, siblings and parents; Thinking and learning with able underachievers; Responding to personal and emotional needs; Creating opportunities for change. Appendix 1: Staged criteria for the selection of able underachievers. Appendix 2: Transcripts and the use of a grounded theory approach by means of ATLAS.ti. References. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 245 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-138-16352-X / 113816352X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-16352-2 / 9781138163522
Zustand	Neuware