Able Children
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Strategies to adopt when teaching the brightest children in the classroom
This informative production from Brighton Polytechnic explores the way that teachers and educationalists used a variety of techniques to identify able children, in both pre- and infant school settings, and to address the challenges that such children can create in the classroom environment. They discuss the various ways that able children can affect the learning outcomes of their fellow pupils - positively, by stimulating and encouraging their classmates, or negatively, by becoming disruptive, largely through boredom and lack of mental stimulation. What is particularly interesting is the use of computers in the classroom and the way that children of all abilities are encouraged to develop their skills in word-processing, database use and problem solving.