.Education of the Gifted and Talented, 7th Edition. DescriptionFor courses in Giftedness, and Gifted/Talented Education.A best-selling, comprehensive guide to best practices in gifted education.Practical strategies and the latest research on critical topics and on best practices make Education of the Gifted and Talented an indispensable resource for those who work or will work with gifted students. The content is supported and enhanced by the inclusion of practical strategies that can be implemented in the classroom, case studies that help teachers identify student needs, and summaries of research on effective programs. Emphasis is placed on pedagogy and on social-emotional needs, and the title includes a heightened awareness of less visible sub-groups within gifted populations. The Seventh Edition features new directions, new programs, thoroughly updated topics, and current research to keep readers on top of the latest advances in the field.A broad overview of research-based classroom approaches to gifted education helps teachers understand what’s available for gifted students and how to plan a program.Discussion of underachievement, cultural and economic disadvantage, female underachievement, learning and emotional disabilities (dual exceptionalities), over-diagnosis and misdiagnosis of disorders is located in Chapters 12 through 15. Pre-service teachers will be sensitized to the psychological and cultural issues that cause some children’s gifted performance to become invisible in their schools.
Readers also learn practical strategies for engaging these children in achievement. Case studies of underachieving gifted students give readers a deeper insight into these issues.Provides ready-to-use, easy-to-adapt sample forms for identifying giftedness used in schools.
The text also provides an overview of the variety of tests commonly used to identify gifted students and their strengths and weaknesses.Creativity and teaching thinking skills–two concepts central to gifted education–are found in Chapters 8, 9, and 10. This coverage helps pre-service teachers understand creative students, creative processes, and how to foster high-levels of creative thinking. The text's inclusion of strategies and lesson plans that can be adapted to the classroom at all grade levels further enriches the value of this text for practitioners.Considerations of parenting, social-emotional needs and counseling are introduced, alerting readers to the affective needs of gifted students.
Counseling strategies as well as parenting needs are covered so that pre-service teachers may learn how to reach out and communicate with the families of gifted children they will teach. These concepts are presented in Chapters 11, 16, and 17.New directions, new programs, thoroughly updated topics, and current research keep readers on top of the latest advances in the field, including:.NEW! Thorough updating—approximately 30% of the content is new.NEW! Important new directions in gifted education, added by leaders in the field.
(Chapter 1).NEW! Coverage of push-in programs.NEW! Coverage of the role of technology.NEW! New issues and research for minority group identification. (Chapters 3 and 13).NEW!
New models providing services to gifted students, among them:.The Advanced Academic Program Development Model for aligning the identification process to the academic services gifted students need (Chapter 7), and.The CLEAR Model combining elements from Tomlinson, Kaplan, Renzulli, and Reis's work to create units that allow students to explore authentic, unanswered questions in meaningful ways.NEW! The latest results of research about disadvantaged gifted children, provided by The National Research Center on Gifted and Talented (Funded by the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act (PL 100-297)). (Chapter 13).NEW!
A look at Speirs Neumeister and Burney new four-step model for conducting an internal evaluation. (Chapter 18).NEW! A discussion of how creativity manifests itself differently across time and within individuals' lives looks at creativity as big-c and little-c, and is expanded to include mini-c and pro-c. (Chapter 9).UPDATED! Coverage of gifted girls and gifted boys in Chapter 14 includes specific issues related to gifted boys, as well as fully updated data and recommendations for gifted girls.NEW! Coverage of Marzano and Kendall's new thinking taxonomy based on a hierarchy of complexity. (Chapter 10).NEW! Important new specific communications from the National Office for Special Education.
(Chapter 14).NEW! Coverage of how to counsel gifted children to find their passions. (Chapter 17). New directions, new programs, thoroughly updated topics, and current research keep readers on top of the latest advances in the field, including:.Thorough updating—approximately 30% of the content is new.Important new directions in gifted education, added by leaders in the field. (Chapter 1).Coverage of push-in programs.Coverage of the role of technology.New issues and research for minority group identification. (Chapters 3 and 13).New models providing services to gifted students, among them:.The Advanced Academic Program Development Model for aligning the identification process to the academic services gifted students need (Chapter 7), and.The CLEAR Model combining elements from Tomlinson, Kaplan, Renzulli, and Reis's work to create units that allow students to explore authentic, unanswered questions in meaningful ways.The latest results of research about disadvantaged gifted children, provided by The National Research Center on Gifted and Talented (Funded by the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act (PL 100-297)).
(Chapter 13).A look at Speirs Neumeister and Burney new four-step model for conducting an internal evaluation. (Chapter 18).A discussion of how creativity manifests itself differently across time and within individuals' lives looks at creativity as big-c and little-c, and is expanded to include mini-c and pro-c. (Chapter 9).UPDATED! Coverage of gifted girls and gifted boys in Chapter 14 includes specific issues related to gifted boys, as well as fully updated data and recommendations for gifted girls.Coverage of Marzano and Kendall's new thinking taxonomy based on a hierarchy of complexity.
(Chapter 10).Important new specific communications from the National Office for Special Education. (Chapter 14).Coverage of how to counsel gifted children to find their passions. (Chapter 17). About the Author(s)Dr. Rimm was a longtime contributor to NBC’s Today Show, hosted Family Talk on public radio nationally, and served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children. She has received the prestigious Anne F. Isaacs, Robert Rossmiller and Palmarium awards for her lifetime contributions to gifted children.Del Siegle is a professor in gifted and talented education and Director of the National Center for Research on Gifted Education (NCRGE) at the University of Connecticut.
NCRGE is the only federally funded national research center on gifted education. He is a past president of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), past president of the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented Education (Montana AGATE), past chair of the Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and former Head of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Along with D. Betsy McCoach, he was co-editor of Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) and the Journal of Advanced Academics (JOAA).
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He writes a technology column for Gifted Child Today. In addition to being a co-author of Education of the Gifted and Talented, he is also author of The Underachieving Gifted Child: Recognizing, Understanding, and Reversing Underachievement. Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Siegle worked with gifted and talented students in Montana.
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