Education

This comprehensive text by leaders in the field presents the best practices in gifted education.

After a brief overview of current issues in the field, Education of the Gifted and Talented discusses the characteristics of gifted students as well as challenges of parenting and the understanding and counseling of gifted children. The authors address crucial topics in the field, including strategies for identifying gifted students, considerations in planning a sound gifted and talented program, contemporary program models, problems of minority, disabled and female students, and the evaluation of gifted programs.

• Addresses specific issues such as “elitism,” criticism, and damage caused by trends toward grouping and detracking.

• The book has a focus on world and U.S. history alongside contemporary issues in gifted education, which acquaints students with up-to-date issues and problems (Ch. 1).

• Sample forms, to be used or modified for identifying gifted students, help clarify and simplify the highly critical identification process, giving students examples of forms they can use in their first jobs (Ch. 4).

• Lists and descriptions of acceleration, enrichment, and grouping options aid both in understanding what is available for gifted students and planning a program that includes sensible acceleration and enrichment options (Chs. 5 & 6).

• Chapters on creativity and teaching thinking skills—two concepts central to gifted education—help the reader understand creative students, creative processes, and how to foster high levels of creative thinking (Chs. 10 & 11).

• A focus on culturally diverse, disadvantaged, underachieving, female, and disabled gifted students familiarizes the reader with unique characteristics, problems, and identification of these populations and crucial programming adjustments for them (Chs. 12-15).

• Features new research by Dr. Rimm and her daughters, Ilonna Rimm and Sara Rimm-Kaufman, exploring the childhoods, family and career patterns, sources of motivation and resilience, and life satisfactions of over 1,000 extraordinarily successful women.

• Chapter 12 includes an expanded section on gifted education in rural areas, a topic of increasing focus.

• Chapter 17 addresses the fears and problems of gifted gay students and the steps schools can take to make the educational environment more civilized and safe to reduce homophobia, including among the gifted staff.

• The topic of suicide in the gifted population is addressed along with the common traits of pressure on gifted students that can dispose them to suicide.

Each chapter contains a “Summary.”

Preface.


1. Gifted Education: Matching Instruction with Needs.

2. Characteristics of Gifted Students.

3. Program Planning.

4. Identifying Gifted and Talented Students.

5. Acceleration.

6. Enrichment and Grouping.

7. Curriculum Models.

8. Leadership, Affective Learning, and Character Education.

9. Creativity I: The Creative Person, Creative Process, and Creative Dramatics.

10. Creativity II: Teaching for Creative Growth.

11. Teaching Thinking Skill.

12. Cultural Diversity and Children from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds: The Invisible Gifted.

13. Underachievement: Diagnosis and Treatment.

14. The Cultural Underachievement of Females.

15. Gifted Children with Disabilities.

16. Parenting the Gifted Child.

17. Understanding and Counseling Gifted Students.

18. Program Evaluation.

References.


Author Index.


Subject Index.

Gifted / Talented Education  (Special Education)

This practical resource presents the best ideas and practices in the field of gifted education. From planning a sound gifted and talented program to the evaluation of a program, this leading text explores contemporary program models, problems of minority, disabled, and female gifted students. Chapters on creativity and teaching thinking skills—two concepts central to gifted education—help the reader understand creative students, creative processes, and how to foster high levels of creative thinking (Chs. 10 & 11).

“(Education of the Gifted and Talented, 4/e) is current and accurate. Couldn't ask for a better text.”
Michael F. Shaughnessy, Eastern New Mexico University

“The authors have mastered the fine art (of) writing in an interesting and intellectually challenging manner: no small feat...I love this book!”
Amy P. Dietrich, The University of Memphis

“The comprehensiveness of the coverage for an introductory text is a major strength.”
Sally M. Reis, University of Connecticut

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
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