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    Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children: Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented
    Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children: Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented
    Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children: Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented
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    Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children: Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented

    By Ashley McCabe-Mowat

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    Open-ended activities to develop students’ creative and critical thinking skills. Gifted children are not the only ones who will benefit from this book! All children will thoroughly enjoy these activities. Some of the activities can be last for days, others such as the brainteaser section can be used for a quick warm-up to spark interest and excite the brain. Activities linked to Bloom’s taxonomy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliant Publications
    Release dateAug 28, 2012
    ISBN9780857475596
    Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children: Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented

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    Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children - Ashley McCabe-Mowat

    Title Page

    Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children

    That Other Children Will Love Too

    Ashley McCabe Mowat

    Publisher Information

    Originally published by

    Brilliant Publications

    Unit 10, Sparrow Hall Farm, Edlesborough, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 2ES

    Enquiries: 01525 222292

    e-mail: info@brilliantpublications.co.uk

    Website: www.brilliantpublications.co.uk

    Digital version converted and published in 2011 by

    Andrews UK Limited

    www.andrewsuk.com

    Written by Ashley McCabe Mowat

    Cover design by Lynda Murray

    Illustrated by Kirsty Wilson

    © Ashley McCabe Mowat 2003

    First published in the UK in 2003, reprinted 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009

    The right of Ashley McCabe Mowat to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.

    Certain indicated sections may be printed/photocopied by use by individual teachers for class use, without permission from the publisher and without declaration to the Publishers Licensing Society. The materials may not be reproduced in any other form or for any other purpose without the prior written permission of the

    publisher.

    About the Author

    Ashley M. Mowat, Gifted Educator and Consultant (M Ed Gifted Education)

    Ashley Mowat grew up in the southern states of America and was a student in the gifted programme from the age of 8. She received a BA in Early Childhood Education, a BA in Elementary Education and studied Psychology at Converse Women’s College in South Carolina. Following university, Ashley continued her education at Converse, receiving a masters degree in Gifted Education. During this time, Ashley taught in an inner city school and completed a thesis on Underachieving Gifted Males. She also planned and implemented a curriculum for the top 100 gifted students in her area for the Athena Institute, a summer programme for gifted students.

    Ashley moved to England, married, and in 1999 taught Key Stage 1 at Gateway School in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. The following year, she piloted a gifted programme in the school. She spent the year writing and implementing a themed curriculum dealing with issues of the gifted and talented. The programme has been a great success. Ashley has organized Creative and Critical Thinking Workshops at Gateway during the school holidays and taught at various summer programmes for gifted pupils. Ashley teaches at Gateway part-time. She has provided INSET training days for teachers in schools involved with the Excellence in Cities programme and works with the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) on their website.

    Ashley is available to provide Inset training days, and workshops for children. She can be contacted direct via email (amm_gifteded@hotmail.com) or via Brilliant Publications.

    Introduction

    Teaching Gifted Children is becoming an increasingly important topic in the UK. A very confusing issue for most teachers is just where to begin! You already have so much to do, and probably can’t work out when you are going to have time to include activities for Gifted and Talented Children! However, it is extremely important to reach these children, as they are quite often children who fall behind, lose their confidence and become underachievers.

    This book will help you to make a start. It is designed to give you ideas for activities that you can use in your classroom. The activities can be modified to suit ages from 6 and up. The work that the children

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