Second, it enables all members to participate (either actively or as a «listener») in lively statewide discussions
of gifted education issues.
These courses address the
basics of gifted education, including the academic and social needs of gifted children, best practices, counseling, and working with special populations.
(b) Each school district shall conduct awareness activities to inform the public
of gifted education services and programs and the manner by which to request these services and programs.
We are looking for parents, teachers, researchers, administrators, and gifted persons age 18 and over who are
supporters of gifted education to participate in this study.
There are three key issues that are crucial to the successful
integration of gifted education theory in arts instruction: affective, cognitive, and instructional.
The
kind of gifted education a student gets will depend on whether a state or school district values gifted students enough to do something for them.
These standards draw on years of research in the field
of gifted education documenting the most effective approaches to curriculum planning and delivery for gifted learners.
This site complements the ideas in that book, including the concepts of the «mystery» and the «mastery»
models of gifted education.
Teachers use practices from the field
of gifted education such as inquiry - based instruction to teach higher - level thinking to all students.
Without building the knowledge base for understanding the unique needs and educational
methods of gifted education, advocacy is likely to meet with limited success.
Having a teacher of the gifted - someone who truly understood me and the
field of gifted education - could have provided me with additional support, both academically and socially - emotionally.
Dr. Susan Baum,
professor of gifted education at New Rochelle College Baum echoed Gentry's philosophy, saying it's important to seek out your students» talents.
By those definitions, Miraca Gross, a professor
of gifted education at Australia's University of New South Wales, calculates that a teacher may encounter a gifted child only every few years.
Many parents arrive in the
world of gifted education with a report full of tests results, supposedly defining their child as «gifted.»
A few years ago I surveyed 90 Australian and New Zealand teachers entering specialist graduate study in gifted education and compared these educators» attitudes towards various aspects
of gifted education with the attitudes of teachers not in specialist study (Gross, 1994).
She arranged for a professor
of gifted education from an area university to travel to Friedell to offer courses leading to certification in gifted education.
According to Dr. Richard Courtright, an
expert of gifted education at Duke University, who I recently had the privilege of learning from during a seminar, said the average time teachers wait for answer from students is about one to one - and - a - half seconds.
Many gifted children experience these feelings on a regular basis due to what Dr. Tracy Cross, executive director for the
Center of Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, terms «educational malnourishment.»
The
principles of gifted education ~ developed by researchers such as Joseph Renzulli ~ are based upon knowing your students ~ discovering their interests ~ building curriculum around those interests ~ developing authentic products through investigative - type projects and other means ~ and impacting real audiences.
When the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) surveyed states in 2008 about what they provide in the
way of gifted education, June writes, it found the answer to be «not much.»
As I made strides in my teaching career, I took on the
role of Gifted Education coordinator for an elementary and middle school in my district.
When it was first invented, one of the selling
points of gifted education was that it could personalize learning for gifted children, allowing them to work at their own pace and on their own goals.