Book of the Week: INVISIBLE INTELLIGENCE: WHY YOUR CHILD MIGHT NOT BE FAILING by Welby Ings

Educator Welby Ings is concerned that our overemphasis on ‘measurability’ and the ‘correct’ recall of facts has resulted in too narrow a view of Intelligence, effectively sidelining a significant portion of the population whose minds work in different but no less gifted ways. Too often, children are ‘written off’ both by schools and by their parents even though they are naturally curious and engaged (good markers of intelligence), resulting in poor life outcomes and behaviour problems. Ings’s insightful and helpful book helps us to broaden our idea of intelligence and to support young people to flourish at school and in their wider lives. A broader and more inclusive approach to education will have benefits for us all.

• Intelligence is beautiful (part 1 and part 2).

• Many ways to demonstrate intelligence.

• On learning to read at 15.

• Why standardised testing doesn’t work.

• Why are we obsessed with assessment?

• Disobedient thinking.

• Three doors down.

• Coolness kills creativity.

• Welby Ings’s earlier book, Disobedient Teaching, is also excellent.

• Ings is also a film-maker. Watch Boy, Sparrow and Punch.