Relevant documents and links

• Thinking skills - adding challenge to the curriculum – Overview of thinking skills and how to promote and encourage thinking in the classroom.
• Accrediting prior learning – What are the best strategies to use to find out what students already know about a topic and how do you respond to this? This document includes some information on mind mapping.
• Aide memoires – A document to aid task design and help your students to benefit even more from the lesson.
• Complexity – Find out how you can effectively introduce complexity into students" thinking and learning.
• Diagramming – Diagramming involves representing a written text in diagrammatic form. Some examples are shown here.
• Strategy: most difficult first – An initial step towards more formal compacting, this is most effective with skill-based assignments. This is an overview of the strategy.
• Planning checklist – Map of the issues to consider when planning lessons for gifted and talented students.
• Review of provision strategies – Review of the different strategies teachers may need to employ to teach gifted and talented children in different contexts.
• Bloom"s Taxonomy - The Three Little Pigs – Using The Three Little Pigs with Bloom"s Taxonomy activity.
• Bloom"s Taxonomy & Holes – Using "Holes" by Louis Sachar with Bloom"s Taxonomy activity.
• Bloom"s taxonomy & Holes – One set of suggestions for classifying questions in the Bloom"s taxonomy and Holes task.
• Gifted and talented lesson plan checklist – Template lesson plan checklist for Gifted and Talented provision.
• Mentoring able underachievers – Mentoring able underachivers.
• Oxford Brookes - gifted and talented professional development – Professional development materials on gifted and talented provision.
• QCA site – National Curriculum tasks and tests.
• G&TWISE - Support for Gifted and Talented Education – Reviews and recommendations of good resources for gifted and talented.
• Primary lessons for challenge - Oxford Brookes – Lesson activities from Oxford Brookes teacher training.
• Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching in the primary years – The Primary Strategy.
• Behind the Science – Exciting and interesting ideas for teaching gifted pupils in key stage 2 science.
• Urban Scholars – A series of resources in critical thinking, maths, writing and research skills.
• Space Science – Investigate the relationship between the law of gravity and the motion of the planets, and design a spacecraft to be launched from deep in the Earth"s gravity well.
• Interdependence – One of the five framework themes at key stage 3. This resource approaches the theme from two complementary directions: adaptation and energy transfer.
• Further Robotics – Further exploring the use of robots for scientific investigation.
• Deep Cells – Written by experts from the Secondary National Strategy to deliver directly into the key stage 3 science framework.
• Exscitec Robotic Futures – Exploring the use of robots for scientific investigation.
• Taking Shape – A journey of detection and problem-solving in trigonometry.
• Metric Maths – Examining a series of mathematical concepts at an enhanced level.
• AS Choices – A user-friendly guide that takes year 10 and 11 students through the AS selection process.
• Effective UCAS – Provides valuable information and advice for year 12 or 13 students making UCAS applications - from the initial application through to student support and finance.
• Hero"s Journey – Provides an accessible yet challenging theoretical framework and can be used as a starting point for the investigation of key concepts such as genre, representation and ideology.
• In Between the Lines – Contains activities that are high-challenge for use with able key stage 3 students performing at level 7+. However, it has also been successfully used for key stage 4 and 5 religious education, science, media studies and English language.
• e-TASC – This interactive e-learning resource provides a tool for capturing, challenging and evaluating ideas. It provides a framework for developing thinking skills across the curriculum.
• Image and Identity – Designed to help key stage 3 art students understand and express the themes of image and identity, making connections with themselves and other artists" work.
• Philosophy for Children – Series of resources generated by teachers to teach philosophy in key stage 2 & 3 classrooms
• Media Studies – Designed for key stage 4 or 5 students. It introduces them to theories of semiotics and gives them tools for reading media.
• How Do You Mean? – Created to support literacy for gifted primary pupils. It is aimed principally at years 5 and 6, but has been successfully adapted for students from key stages 1-3.
• Teachernet – Information for teachers and schools on education.