Relevant documents and links

• Provision for the most able students: acceleration or enrichment? – Will acceleration or enrichment benefit able children the most? The benefits and drawbacks of each strategy are presented here.
• Depth of study – Depth of study refers to approaching or studying something from the concrete to the abstract, from the familiar to the unfamiliar, and from the known to the unknown.
• Ability grouping – Overview of some of the issues related to ability grouping.
• Differentiating the plenary upwards – Ten ways to differentiate plenary activities.
• Differentiation – Some suggested modifications that teachers can make in order to differentiate process and encourage the use of higher-level thinking processes.
• Grouping – Analysis of different ways of grouping students to make the strategy more productive and effective.
• Whole class teaching and learning strategies – List of learning and teaching strategies that can be employed for effective whole class teaching.
• Mentoring gifted and talented students – Reasons for mentoring G and T students as well as a key to successful mentoring.
• Differentiation – Flash film on differentiating techniques.
• Differentiation PowerPoint to match Flash animation – Powerpoint presentation (to match flash animation) on differentiation.
• The National Literacy Trust"s EAL webpages – This section focuses on people of all ages from ethnic minorities for whom English may or may not be a first language.