Gifted?: The shift to enrichment, challenge and equity Fairies The book proposes new principles

The book proposes new principles for understanding children’s learning

James McMillan shows why being wrong is an essential part of effective learning and how it can be used by teachers to motivate students and help develop positive achievement-related dispositions

and in the open discussion of the problem of counter-transference

This book is based on the idea that instruction carries in-built risks

the trials of teaching

Gifted?: The shift to enrichment, challenge and equity Fairies The book proposes new principlesGifted and talented is a zombie. It is dead, but still walking around. There are new labels to stratify students more able, significantly able, high aptitude learners. New labels do not equal new thinking.