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Growing up Gifted : Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School

ISBN: 9780135696583 | 0135696585
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 3/1/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in the Introduction to Gifted Education. One of the leading books in the field, this edition offers the most interesting, information-packed introduction available to the characteristics of the gifted and talented children.
PART I UNDERSTANDING THE GIFTED INDIVIDUAL3(186)
CHAPTER 1 Gifted Education and Talent Development: An Issue of Excellence and Equity
3(21)
The Dual Mission of Gifted Education: Balancing Excellence an... MORE
5(1)
A Rationale for Gifted Education and Talent Development
6(3)
Excellence, Equity, and the Gifted Student
9(2)
The Javits Act Program
9(1)
National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent
10(1)
Interest in Educating Gifted Learners
11(3)
Barriers to Appropriate Education for Gifted Students and the Development of Talent
14(6)
Elitism: A Problem or a Blessing?
14(1)
Age-Grouped Classes
15(1)
Uninformed Attitudes and Beliefs of Educators and Decision Makers
16(2)
Unbalanced Educational Reform
18(2)
Other Current Issues
20(2)
Questions Often Asked
22(2)
CHAPTER 2 Who Are the Gifted Individuals?
24(40)
Intelligence, Giftedness, and Talent Development
25(9)
Definitions
26(1)
Intelligence, Giftedness, and Talent as Performance
26(1)
Intelligence, Giftedness, and Talent as an Integration of Brain Functions
27(5)
Talent Development
32(1)
Highly and Exceptionally Gifted Individuals
33(1)
The Concept of Intelligence
34(28)
A Historical Overview of Intelligence
34(9)
The Development of Intelligence
43(8)
A Summary of Brain Research for Educators
51(2)
Characteristics of Gifted Learners
53(9)
Questions often Asked
62(2)
CHAPTER 3 Creativity: The Highest Form of Giftedness
64(27)
Defining Creativity as Holistic
65(3)
Integrating the Aspects of Creativity
68(4)
The Rational or Reasoning Aspects of Creativity
68(1)
The Affective or Feeling Aspects of Creativity
69(1)
The Physical/Sensing Aspects of Creativity
70(1)
The Institute Aspect of Creativity
70(1)
Wholeness in Creativity
71(1)
Characterstics Commonly Found in Creative Individuals
72(4)
Conditions That Enhance or Inhibit the Development of Creativity
76(6)
Nurturing Creativity at School
79(3)
Conditions That Inhibit Creativity
82(1)
Measuring Creativity
82(4)
Being Creative
86(3)
Questions Often Asked
89(2)
CHAPTER 4 Becoming Gifted
91(49)
Early Learning: The Importance of Developing Potential
94(24)
Clues from Animal Studies
94(2)
Applications to Human Infants
96(1)
Prenatal and Perinatal Interactions
97(3)
Genetic-Environmental Interaction During Infancy (Birth Through 2 Years)
100(3)
Creating a Responsive Environment for Early Learning
103(11)
Discipline
114(4)
Intellectual Development During Early Childhood (2 Through 5 Years)
118(20)
Creating the Responsive Learning Environment
121(1)
Development of the Rational Mind
122(3)
Development of the Metaphoric Mind
125(1)
The Preschool Experience
126(12)
Questions Often Asked
138(2)
CHAPTER 5 Growing Up Gifted
140(49)
Social-Emotional Development and Giftedness
141(7)
Social-Emotional Characteristics
142(3)
Social-Emotionaal Adjustment
145(2)
Perfectionism and Gifted Students
147(1)
The Self-Concept of the Gifted Individual
148(12)
Development of Self-Esteem
154(6)
Moral Development
160(3)
The Developing Personality
163(1)
Attitudes
164(4)
Attitudes of Teachers
166(1)
Attitudes of Peers
167(1)
Parenting Gifted Children: Teachers of the Gifted at Home
168(16)
Development of Giftedness and Talents
172(2)
Siblings of Gifted Children
174(1)
Organizing for Cooperation
175(3)
Parent Insevice
178(1)
Parents as Resources
179(1)
Homeschooling: An Alternative Approach
180(1)
Suggestions for Parents
181(3)
Questions Often Asked
184(5)
PART II THE SCHOOL THE GIFTED INDIVIDUAL189(122)
CHAPTER 6 Programs for Gifted Learners
189(62)
Programs for Gifted Learners Yesterday and Today
191(4)
Education of the Gifted Learner
192(1)
Legislation Mandating Service to Gifted Students
193(2)
Developing Programs for Gifted Learners
195(29)
Programming by Level of Involvement
196(2)
Planning a Program for Gifted Learners
198(3)
The Program Coordinator
201(3)
Administrative Provisions
204(9)
Program Oraganizations and Structures for Educating Gifted Learners
213(9)
Using the Community
222(1)
Rural Programs
223(1)
Teachers of the Gifted: At School
224(21)
Abilities, Values, and Characteristics
225(10)
Teachers Education and Certification
235(10)
Evaluating the Program
245(4)
Questions Often Asked
249(2)
CHAPTER 7 Developing Support Systems for Programs for Gifted Learners
251(19)
The Importance of Support for Effective Programs
253(1)
Gaining the Support of Other Teachers
253(2)
Sagebrush Elementary School, Colorado
254(1)
Wailuku Elementary School, Hawaii
255(1)
Gaining the Support of Parents
255(3)
Make Parents Part of the Planning
256(1)
Schedule a Lunch Bunch
257(1)
Include Parents on the Educational Team
257(1)
Gaining the Support of the Administration
258(2)
Counselors and Psychologists as Support Personnel
260(5)
Interactions Between Counselors and Other Educational Team Members
264(1)
Gaining the Support of the Community
265(3)
Questions Often Asked
268(2)
CHAPTER 8 Finding Gifted Students in the Schools
270(41)
Different Approaches to Discovering Giftedness
272(2)
Search, Screening, and Identification Procedures
274(18)
Measuring Intelligence
275(6)
Search
281(1)
Screening
281(5)
Identification
286(1)
Tools for Screening and Identification of Gifted and Talented Learners
287(5)
Identifying Culturally Diverse, Disabled, and Educationally Atypical Gifted Learners
292(9)
Behavioral Identification of Diverse Gifted Students
292(1)
Problems of Traditional Tests for Culturally Diverse Learners
293(3)
Alternative Identification Procedures for Culturally Diverse Learners
296(2)
Identifying Students with Disabilities
298(3)
The Case Study
301(1)
Assessment of the Needs and Abilities of Gifted Learners
302(1)
Labeling Gifted Learners
303(2)
Questions Often Asked
305(6)
PART III OPTIMIZING LEARNING311(240)
CHAPTER 9 Optimizing Learning: The Foundation for Educating Gifted Learners
311(80)
Models Often Used to Provide Eduction for Gifted Learners
313(12)
The Grid
313(3)
The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive Domain
316(1)
The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Affective Domain
316(2)
The Structure of Intellect Model
318(1)
The Enrichment Triad Model
319(4)
The Autonomous Learner Model for the Gifted and Talented
323(1)
Other Theories and Models
324(1)
Optimizing Learning
325(2)
Seven Steps to Optimizing Learning
326(1)
Creating the Responsive Learning Environment
327(9)
The Physical Learning Environment
329(2)
The Social-Emotional Learning Environment
331(5)
Integrating Intellectual Processes
336(53)
Components of the Integrative Education Model
337(1)
Integrating Cognitive Processes
337(1)
Integrating Affective Processes
348(12)
Integrating Physical Processes
360(5)
Integrating Intuitive Processes
365(15)
Sample Lessons for Integrating Intellectual Processes
380(9)
Question Often Asked
389(2)
CHAPTER 10 Differentiating Content and Individualizing Instruction for Gifted Learners
391(56)
Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Learners
393(32)
Differentiated Curriculum Guidelines
395(1)
A Curiculum Criteria Checklist
396(1)
Providing Differentiation to Meet Educational Needs of Gifted Learners
397(7)
Differentiating Curriculum Content
404(21)
Assessing Knowledge, Understanding, and Interest
425(7)
What Is Alternative or Performance Assessment?
427(1)
What Are Standards and Rubrics?
428(1)
Creating Student Portfolios
429(3)
Individualizing Instruction
432(5)
Developing the Individual Educational Plan for Gifted Students
437(1)
Evaluating Learning and Teaching
437(6)
Grading Gifted Learners
438(1)
Grades Have No Inherent Stable Meaning and Low Reliability
438(1)
Grades Do Not Predict Success in Careers, Living, or Level of Ability
439(1)
For Most Students, Grades Do Not Motivate Learning
440(1)
Evaluation Without Grades Facilitates the Learning Process
441(2)
Reflect and Reform
443(2)
Questions Often Asked
445(2)
CHAPTER 11 Providing Continuity to a Continuum of Services for Gifted Learners
447(36)
Gifted Students in the Elementary Schools
448(3)
Attitudes Toward Young Gifted Learners
449(1)
Curriculum Models for Learners in Elementary School
450(1)
Gifted Students in the Middle School and High School
451(23)
The Physical Transition
454(1)
The Intellectual Transition
455(2)
Social-Emotional Transitions
457(2)
Intuitive Transitions
459(1)
Programs for Gifted Learners in Middle and High School
460(6)
Curriculum Models for Gifted Learners in Middle and High School Grades
466(5)
Special Problems in Evaluating Programs in Middle and High Schools
471(3)
Career Education for the Gifted Learner
474(7)
Suggested Programs
477(3)
Activities to Develop Awareness of Career Possibilities
480(1)
Question Often Asked
481(2)
CHAPTER 12 Issues and Concerns in the Education of Gifted Learners
483(68)
Highly and Exceptionally Gifted Students
485(4)
Underachieving Gifted Students
489(12)
Characteristics of Underachievers
491(2)
Causes for Underachievement
493(3)
Prevention and Remediation of Underachievement
496(2)
Counseling Approaches to Remediation
498(1)
Curriculaar and Classroom Organizational Change
499(2)
Culturally Diverse Gifted Learners
501(19)
Cultural Differences in Attitudes and Skills
505(1)
Racially and Ethnically Diverse Gifted Populations
505(9)
Enonomically Disadvantaged or Low-Socioeconomic-Status Gifted Students
514(6)
Optimizing Learning for Culturally Diverse Gifted Learners
520(1)
Gifted Learners with Disabilities
520(9)
Characteristics of Gifted Children with Disabilities
522(1)
Overcoming Teacher Attiudes
523(1)
Identification Of Gifted Children with Disabilities
524(1)
Programming for Gifted Children with Disabilities
525(4)
Gifted Females
529(20)
Barriers to Equity
532(13)
What Can Be Done?
545(4)
Questions Often Asked
549(2)
EPILOG Education of Gifted Learners: A Predictor of Future Possibilities for Society551(2)
References553(34)
Name Index587(8)
Subject Index595

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