Arts Education for Gifted Learners

by Jesse Cukierkorn
Arts Education for Gifted Learners
Author: Jesse Cukierkorn
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2008
Genre: Arts
ISBN: 159363319X
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Arts Education for Gifted Learners provides information for teachers and parents interested in supporting an artistically talented child. It reveals the characteristics of artistically talented students, describes program options, and shares an approach for supporting the affective needs of these students. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.

A Field Guide to Gifted Students

by Charlotte Agell
A Field Guide to Gifted Students
Author: Charlotte Agell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2021-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000491072
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A Field Guide to Gifted Students is a practical manual to the unique characteristics of gifted and advanced learners. Presented as a concise 32-page, full-color booklet available in sets of 10 print copies or a single eBook copy, this resource: Can be used in teacher workshops and other group professional learning settings. Assists educators in understanding and meeting the academic and social-emotional needs of gifted students. Includes a companion online facilitator's guide. Features practical tips based on current research and best practices. Is packed with illustrations, checklists, space to write notes, and a glossary of terms. School can feel like the wrong fit for many gifted learners, but through learning how to notice and support gifted students' diverse traits and needs, educators can build ideal classroom climates for student success. Readers will understand how to identify giftedness and related traits, including twice-exceptionality, introversion and extroversion, perfectionism, sensitivity, and intuitiveness. The online facilitator's guide includes everything workshop leaders need to conduct a brief course for classroom teachers, coordinators, counselors, or even parents.

Language Arts for Gifted Students

by Susan K. Johnsen
Language Arts for Gifted Students
Author: Susan K. Johnsen
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2005
Genre: Gifted children
ISBN: 1593631650
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For the first time, the Gifted Child Today Reader series brings together the best articles published in Gifted Child Today, the nation's most popular gifted education journal. Each book in this series is filled with exciting and practical classroom ideas, useful summaries of research findings, discussions of identification and classroom management, and informed opinions about educating gifted kids. Anyone involved in education will benefit from the practical, research-based ideas this unique series has to offer. Students who are gifted in English and language arts are able to discern the authors' purpose, anticipate layers of meaning, and use prior knowledge to make connections between the present text and the previous experiences, a complicated feat for any young child. "Language Arts for Gifted Students" offers information on the characteristics and identification of students who are gifted in English and language arts; how to develop differentiated curricula that include multicultural components; and specific teaching strategies, such as integrating drama with literature, using storytelling activities, and developing a writers' workshop.

Teach for Attention!

by Ezra Werb
Teach for Attention!
Author: Ezra Werb
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1631983202
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A lively read from a working teacher offers practical engagement strategies for students with attention challenges If learning is a motor, student engagement is the key. But when teaching students with ADHD and other attention challenges, sometimes even the most finely tuned classroom can sputter. Teach for Attention! is your tool belt of teaching strategies for students with ADHD, low self-confidence, distraction, and other attention challenges. Dozens of true classroom stories show the strategies in action. It’s all about making simple fixes so you can reach every student without changing your approach or revamping your curriculum. Carry these ideas with you like tools on a belt—the right one will be there when you need it!

Motivating Gifted Students

by Del Siegle
Motivating Gifted Students
Author: Del Siegle
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2005
Genre: Educational acceleration
ISBN: 1593630158
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Presents practical strategies for developing appropriate curriculum for accelerated gifted children, explaining how acceleration can be employed in all classroom levels and subject areas.

Serving Gifted Learners Beyond the Traditional Classroom

by Joyce VanTassel-Baska
Serving Gifted Learners Beyond the Traditional Classroom
Author: Joyce VanTassel-Baska
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781593632113
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Serving Gifted Learners Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Guide to Alternative Programs and Services provides a concise and thorough introduction to the various types of out-of-school programming recommended and appropriate for gifted and advanced learners. Including overviews of mentoring programs, residential schools, summer opportunities, and distance learning, top scholars in the field of gifted education combine research and experience in this guide toalternative services for teachers, parents, and gifted education program directors. Other programs and services covered include service learning, university-based programs, and competitions. In addition, a much-needed review of the issues concerning programming for diverse youth, options for students from low-income backgrounds, and counseling gifted students to make good out-of-school choices, along with an insightful, insider's look at the culture and lives of gifted students at residential schools, make this handy guide to alternative programs and services a necessity for anyone serving and working with gifted students.

Kindling the Spark

by Joanne Haroutounian
Kindling the Spark
Author: Joanne Haroutounian
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780195156386
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In 'Rekindling the Spark', Haroutounian offers a concise synthesis of the research and resources on musical talent - what it is, how to identify and recognize it, and how to nurture and develop it. Exercises throughout the book offer parents and teachers activities to do with children that are useful in spotting and developing musical potential.

Language Arts for Gifted Learners

by Lauren Miller
Language Arts for Gifted Learners
Author: Lauren Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02-15
Genre: Gifted children
ISBN: 9781593638900
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Language arts is a complex subject area that includes multiple domains (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) and can be infused into many other content areas throughout the school day. Students who are gifted in any area of the language arts need consistently challenging and stimulating instruction. "Language Arts for Gifted Students" is written by two classroom teachers specifically for classroom teachers. Designed to be an initial resource for teachers seeking to add to their instructional repertoire, it provides specific strategies that teachers can use to meet the needs of their gifted language arts students both in the language arts classroom and beyond.