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Urban Scholars
Raising achievement for gifted students
Audience
- Classroom teachers
- Curriculum leaders
- Senior managers
Purpose
The Urban Scholars programme was developed to enhance the long-term opportunities for groups of young people at risk of underachievement. This programme was designed to build confidence, provide appropriate skills relating to both self-determined interests and future career opportunities and to raise attainment.
Content
Teachers will be able to use the following lessons within whole-class or small-group teaching:
- Critical thinking: differentiation between reasoning and reflective thinking. How to form successful arguments and develop evaluation and reasoning skills.
- Diary writing: analysis of the varied styles of personal account writing, from Anne Frank's diary to the 'Baghdad Blogger.'
- ID Cards: understanding and evaluating arguments.
- Maths enquiry skills: discovering the Fibonacci sequence.
- Writing skills: workshop based on Wilfred Owens' poem Anthem for Doomed Youth.
- Research project: bringing together the skills learnt in previous lessons.
Download documents
1. Critical thinking
2. Diary writing
3. ID cards
4. Maths enquiry skills
5. Writing skills
6. Research project