Core module 1: Teaching and learning
This module will support you as a leading teacher to reflect on
your own practice and will underpin and model your work on leading
the improvement of gifted and talented education across the school.
Core module 2: Identification
This module will give you a good understanding of the challenges,
issues, principles and processes behind identifying gifted and
talented pupils in your school. It will support you in your role as
a leading teacher in working with colleagues on identification.
Core module 3: Taking the lead in G&T
This module will support you as the leading teacher in developing
your leadership role within your school. You will be encouraged to
identify areas for development, selecting appropriate leadership and
management techniques to manage change effectively.
Module 6: Transfer and Transition
This module is designed to support leading teachers in developing
successful primary-to-secondary school transfer programmes, from an
initial audit of needs, through development, to successful and
ongoing implementation.
Module 7: G&T learners with particular needs
This module will encourage you to challenge some of the
assumptions that you may make about identifying, recognising and
developing appropriate strategies to meet the needs of an identified
group of G&T pupils.
Module 8: Learning beyond the classroom
In this module you will learn what learning beyond the classroom
means and consider this in the context of gifted and talented
provision in your school, and what may need to be developed to
enhance provision for gifted and talented learners and to complement
effective gifted and talented provision in the classroom.
Module 9: Working with parents and carers
This module is about working with parents and carers. It
discusses strategies for working with parents and carers and looks
at the challenges you might come across.
Module 10: English
This module will explore what we mean by gifted in English, how
we identify and develop gifted pupils, and develop an approach to
measuring impact that aligns with your objectives and strategies.
Module 11: Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage
This module consists of elearning introductions to key concepts
and skills for effective teaching and learning for gifted and
talented children in EYFS, structured activities and reflection to
apply those concepts in your school, and access to resources to help
you take the learning further.
Module 12: Key Stages 1 and 2
This module consists of: introductions to key concepts and skills
for effective teaching and learning for gifted and talented
children; structured activities and reflection to support you in
applying those concepts in your school; access to resources to help
you take the learning further; and support in the role of leading
teacher for gifted and talented children.
Module 13: Primary science
This module will examine using a high degree of challenge to
benefit all pupils, including the gifted; how to increase challenge
and encourage higher order thinking through discussion, scientific
enquiry and focused recording as well as how to map classroom
outcomes to the IQS and CQS.
Module 14: Mathematics
This module will support you as a class teacher and as a leading
teacher of gifted and talented mathematics pupils.
Module 15: PE and sport
This module will support you as a subject leader or leading
teacher of G&T to improve provision and outcomes for G&T learners in
PE and sport. It provides information, resources and activities
which can be used alone or as a basis for discussion with
colleagues. Key issues include the identification, provision and
support for G&T learners, improving their attainment, aspirations,
motivation and self-esteem , and narrowing the gap between outcomes
for disadvantaged G&T learners and their peers.
Module 16:Supporting gifted and talented learners with English as an
additional language (EAL)
This module will support you as a leading teacher of G&T in
working with colleagues to improve provision and outcomes for all
G&T pupils, in particular those with English as an additional
language (EAL). It will enable teachers to develop their
understanding of key issues relating to identification of
potentially G&T new arrivals.
It will also help teachers to personalise provision for advanced
EAL learners. The materials, strategies and approaches outlined draw
very much on those developed by the Realising Equality and
Achievement for Learners (REAL) Project which aims to improve
achievement of G&T learners from black and minority ethnic (BME)
backgrounds and those learners for whom English is an additional
language.
Module 17: Supporting gifted and talented provision in secondary
science
This module will support you as a leading teacher of G&T in
working with colleagues to further develop your G&T provision. It
provides information, resources and activities to enhance the
provision, pedagogy and personalisation your school offers its G&T
pupils in science. You can use this module alone to enhance your own
awareness surrounding G&T issues or as the focus for a collaborative
CPD session.
Module 18: Supporting gifted and talented learners in music
This module will support you as a leading teacher or as a class
teacher in reflecting on the current practice and provision in music
for gifted and talented pupils in your school. It focuses on
ensuring that gifted and talented musicians have an opportunity to
demonstrate their abilities and are provided with appropriate
challenges in order to achieve their potential. The module provides
a range of information, activities and resources to help you gain an
understanding of key issues relating to high-quality music
provision, and to plan for improvement.
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