Highlights In teaching-learning situations considered "good" for educating the more able children, certain characteristics seem pervasive: ♦ Principals who demonstrate educational and community leadership, who know what it takes to make a good school, and who encourage growth in both children and teachers. ♦ Teachers who encourage and inspire children to ask and find out, develop their own powers, experiment, go beyond the obvious, and think critically and creatively. ♦ Materials and opportunities in abundance and readily available to facilitate growth in all types of children: books for information and pleasure; laboratory material to aid in seeing, doing, and understanding; trips for firsthand information; and opportunities to explore many cultural and scientific areas. ♦ A learning environment that supports individual counseling, activity, and study; individual and group work; and creativity in all its aspects. |