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Expert approaches to support gifted learners : professional perspectives, best practices, and positive solutions / edited by Margaret Wayne Gosfield.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis, MN : Free Spirit Pub., c2008.Description: x, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1575422808
  • 9781575422800
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Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1: Understanding and Nurturing Gifted Learners -- Lessons from bright learners about affect / Carol Ann Tomlinson -- Reclaiming teaching as a helping profession: seven rules of counseling for classroom teachers / Meredith Greene -- Experiencing in a higher key: Dabrowski's theory of and for the gifted / Michael M. Piechowski -- No wonder they behave differently / Barbara Clark -- Comfortably numb: a new view of underachievement / Jim Delisle -- Squelching enthusiasm / Elaine S. Wiener -- Part 2: Making Gifted Education Work -- Stacking the blocks: the importance of program design / Barbara Clark -- Considerations in evaluating gifted programs / Joyce VanTassel-Baska -- Grouping the gifted: myths and realities / Karen B. Rogers -- Equity in gifted programs: how do we measure up? / Elinor Ruth Smith -- Interdisciplinarity ... support and concerns / Sandra N. Kaplan -- A differentiated rubric to guide teaching, learning, and assessment / Sandra N. Kaplan -- Drawing on the inventive mind: making verbal thinking visual and visual thinking verbal / Jon Pearson -- Responding to failure / Ann MacDonald and Jim Riley -- Infusing language arts curriculum with visual and performing arts for gifted students / Joan Franklin Smutny -- Think like a historian: sleuthing family history / James E. McAleney Jr. -- Identifying and developing technological giftedness: exploring another way to be gifted in the 21st century / Del Siegle -- The "spillover" effect: the power of gifted teaching strategies for an entire staff / Maryanna Gray.
Part 3: Seeking and Serving Special Populations -- Issues of identification and underrepresentation / Barbara Clark -- Giftedness in poverty / Paul D. Slocumb -- Gifts of language diversity: building educational aspirations with Latino students in middle school / Todd Kettler, Alexandra Shiu, and Susan K. Johnsen -- Black English and academic excellence: emerging practices for student success / Saundra Scott Sparling -- Bumps along the road / Susan Baum -- The irony of "twice-exceptional" / Sara Renzulli -- My gifted teenager is gay ... now what? / Judith J. Roseberry and Martha Flournoy -- Looking back / Heather Flournoy -- The power of images: visual-spatial learners / Linda Kreger Silverman -- The High School @ Moorpark College: serving high school gifted students at risk / Victoria Bortolussi -- Part 4: Parents and Educators Teaming Together -- GR-ATE expectations: what parents expect of teachers / Cherie K. Drummond -- Little things count: what teachers wish parents knew / Elaine Wiener -- Parents as learners and teachers / Sylvia B. Rimm -- Counseling issues for gifted students: more issues? Special issues? / Nancy M. Robinson -- No one said it was easy: challenges of parenting twice-exceptional children / Linda Neumann -- The right tool for the job / Alexandra Shires Golon -- Can parents of gifted kids try too hard? And what do gifted kids want, anyway? Some possible answers for two impossible questions / Judy Galbraith -- Promoting philosophical discussions with kids: surefire conversation starters / Jennifer E. Beaver.
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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 371.95 E96 Available 33111006724070
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Educators and parents need practical information they can use now to help them best understand and support the gifted learners in their lives. Because of the unique social and emotional needs faced by gifted learners - not to mention the unique academic needs?teaching and parenting them can be as demanding as it is rewarding. These 36 articles provide much-needed help. They are a "best of" from the last seven years of the Gifted Education Communicator, the national publication of the California Association for the Gifted. With contributions from respected scholars as well as new experts in the field, this book is sensitive, positive, and packed with ideas and up-to-date facts.

"A collaboration with the California Association for the Gifted."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part 1: Understanding and Nurturing Gifted Learners -- Lessons from bright learners about affect / Carol Ann Tomlinson -- Reclaiming teaching as a helping profession: seven rules of counseling for classroom teachers / Meredith Greene -- Experiencing in a higher key: Dabrowski's theory of and for the gifted / Michael M. Piechowski -- No wonder they behave differently / Barbara Clark -- Comfortably numb: a new view of underachievement / Jim Delisle -- Squelching enthusiasm / Elaine S. Wiener -- Part 2: Making Gifted Education Work -- Stacking the blocks: the importance of program design / Barbara Clark -- Considerations in evaluating gifted programs / Joyce VanTassel-Baska -- Grouping the gifted: myths and realities / Karen B. Rogers -- Equity in gifted programs: how do we measure up? / Elinor Ruth Smith -- Interdisciplinarity ... support and concerns / Sandra N. Kaplan -- A differentiated rubric to guide teaching, learning, and assessment / Sandra N. Kaplan -- Drawing on the inventive mind: making verbal thinking visual and visual thinking verbal / Jon Pearson -- Responding to failure / Ann MacDonald and Jim Riley -- Infusing language arts curriculum with visual and performing arts for gifted students / Joan Franklin Smutny -- Think like a historian: sleuthing family history / James E. McAleney Jr. -- Identifying and developing technological giftedness: exploring another way to be gifted in the 21st century / Del Siegle -- The "spillover" effect: the power of gifted teaching strategies for an entire staff / Maryanna Gray.

Part 3: Seeking and Serving Special Populations -- Issues of identification and underrepresentation / Barbara Clark -- Giftedness in poverty / Paul D. Slocumb -- Gifts of language diversity: building educational aspirations with Latino students in middle school / Todd Kettler, Alexandra Shiu, and Susan K. Johnsen -- Black English and academic excellence: emerging practices for student success / Saundra Scott Sparling -- Bumps along the road / Susan Baum -- The irony of "twice-exceptional" / Sara Renzulli -- My gifted teenager is gay ... now what? / Judith J. Roseberry and Martha Flournoy -- Looking back / Heather Flournoy -- The power of images: visual-spatial learners / Linda Kreger Silverman -- The High School @ Moorpark College: serving high school gifted students at risk / Victoria Bortolussi -- Part 4: Parents and Educators Teaming Together -- GR-ATE expectations: what parents expect of teachers / Cherie K. Drummond -- Little things count: what teachers wish parents knew / Elaine Wiener -- Parents as learners and teachers / Sylvia B. Rimm -- Counseling issues for gifted students: more issues? Special issues? / Nancy M. Robinson -- No one said it was easy: challenges of parenting twice-exceptional children / Linda Neumann -- The right tool for the job / Alexandra Shires Golon -- Can parents of gifted kids try too hard? And what do gifted kids want, anyway? Some possible answers for two impossible questions / Judy Galbraith -- Promoting philosophical discussions with kids: surefire conversation starters / Jennifer E. Beaver.

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