Creative teaching of the gifted

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ABOUT THE BOOK
Written by a leader in the field of éducation, this practical guide to teaching the gifted broadly describes the gifted as possessing multiple talents or intelligences, encouraging teachers to address each student as an individuai with a unique set of needs and charac-teristics. Teachers are educated to identity giftedness and to meet individual needs by matching appropriate educational stratégies to spécifié student require-ments. Case studies of actual students (with names changed) represent each of the subpopulations of gifted defined in Chapter 10 (Black, Hispánie, Native American, The Disadvantaged, The Highly Creative, The Handicapped, Females, and The Highly Gifted) and emphasize the special educational needs of gifted individuals.
Chapters 6 and 7 clearly describe stratégies for presenting language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science to gifted learners from kindergarten through twelfth grade, offering specific, practical suggestions for... Tovább

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ABOUT THE BOOK
Written by a leader in the field of éducation, this practical guide to teaching the gifted broadly describes the gifted as possessing multiple talents or intelligences, encouraging teachers to address each student as an individuai with a unique set of needs and charac-teristics. Teachers are educated to identity giftedness and to meet individual needs by matching appropriate educational stratégies to spécifié student require-ments. Case studies of actual students (with names changed) represent each of the subpopulations of gifted defined in Chapter 10 (Black, Hispánie, Native American, The Disadvantaged, The Highly Creative, The Handicapped, Females, and The Highly Gifted) and emphasize the special educational needs of gifted individuals.
Chapters 6 and 7 clearly describe stratégies for presenting language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science to gifted learners from kindergarten through twelfth grade, offering specific, practical suggestions for classroom activités, including the latest methods such as futuristics and bibliotherapy. Chapter 6 also suggests methods for incorporating computers into various subject areas. Sections on évaluation and IEP in Chapter 9 are particularly helpful to those devel-oping and planning programs for gifted students, as well as teaching them. in addition, a discussion of gifted éducation on national, state, and local levels supplies teachers with detailed information on national and global legislative and program developments in gifted éducation. Vissza