"Building on the ideas presented in his impactful book Disobedient Teaching, educationalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Welby Ings explores the hidden forms of intelligence that can emerge in the classroom and how these can be nurtured to foster positive learning and development. Invisible Intelligence blends poignant, humorous and insightful storytelling with current research to consider how schools currently measure intelligence, showing how narrow definitions of literacy and numeracy can lead to bright students being described as behind when they are not. This book examines the kinds of intelligence that slip under the radar but often produce highly successful thinkers. It discusses how we can help young people-and those who support them-when their intelligence is unrecognised, tokenised or turned into a problem. Pragmatic. wise and helpful, Invisible intelligence shows what we can do better in education and why its so important that we do"--Back cover.
Invisible Intelligence : Why Your Child Might Not Be Failing