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Teach to Develop Talent

How to Motivate and Engage Tomorrow's Innovators Today

By: Jeanne L. Paynter

Teach to Develop Talent applies the psychology of motivation, engagement, and achievement to practical strategies educators can use to identify and develop students’ cognitive and social-emotional skills.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781071812556
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2021
Page Count: 224
Publication date: January 08, 2021

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Nurture the talents of all learners

Are you cultivating the real-world creative problem-solving skills today’s diverse learners need for future success? Or have we leaned so far into test preparation that we’ve left no room for developing our students’ unique talents, leaving them disengaged and unmotivated?

With the new brain-based Talent-Targeted Teaching and Learning model described in this book, you can focus instead on developing all students’ metacognitive, creative problem-solving, and leadership skills alongside the required content standards. Teach to Develop Talent applies the psychology of motivation, engagement, and achievement to practical, culturally responsive strategies educators can use to equitably identify and develop students’ cognitive and social-emotional skills, including curiosity, creativity, perseverance, reasoning, persistence, empathy, and more.

With this book, you can:

Identify and develop all learners’ aptitudes for innovation in STEM and humanities
Transform any curriculum or standards into long-term aims for talent development
Support and assess student progress with dozens of customizable checklists, templates, rubrics, and surveys
Challenge and engage all learners, especially diverse gifted students

Ideal for implementation in virtual or traditional learning environments, you will ensure your students’ long-range and multi-faceted success with this hands-on guide.

Author(s)

Jeanne L. Paynter

Jeanne L. Paynter, Ed.D. currently works as an educational consultant and faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the founder and Executive Director of Educating Innovators, which partners with schools to implement unique teaching and learning approaches to engage and challenge all learners, including those who are academically advanced or gifted and talented. Previously she served on the faculty of McDaniel College, Maryland where she taught graduate courses in curriculum and gifted education.

Jeanne has had wide variety of experiences in K-12 public education that have shaped her interest in talent development, leading to the design of a new approach that brings gifted pedagogy to all, talent-targeted teaching and learning. Currently she serves as the President of the Maryland Coalition for Gifted and Talented Education (MCGATE).
As the state specialist for gifted and talented education at the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), Jeanne directed numerous grant projects to increase the participation and success of low income and minority students in PK-12 advanced programming. Previous to her work at MSDE, she was the Coordinator for Gifted Education and Magnet Programs K – 12 in Baltimore County Public Schools, a large urban-suburban district.

Jeanne’s personal passions are motivation, creativity, and talent development in K-12 education, and she has made numerous presentations on these topics to national and international audiences. In addition, she has authored award-winning research on the topic of intrinsic, extrinsic, and moral motivation.

Jeanne earned her Master’s Degree in Gifted Education and Doctorate in Teacher Development and Leadership from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science degree in English from the Towson University. She resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CHAPTER 1. WHY TEACH TO DEVELOP TALENT?

CHAPTER 2. YOU CAN MOTIVATE AND ENGAGE TOMORROW’S INNOVATORS TODAY

CHAPTER 3. CREATE A TALENT DEVELOPMENT MINDSET

CHAPTER 4. TEACH THE SEVEN APTITUDES OF INNOVATORS

CHAPTER 5. TEACH TO DEVELOP STEM TALENT

CHAPTER 6. TEACH TO DEVELOP HUMANITIES TALENT

CHAPTER 7. TEACH TO ASSESS TALENT

CHAPTER 8. TEACH TODAY TO DEVELOP TOMORROW’S INNOVATORS

CONCLUSION: TEACH TO TOUCH THE FUTURE

INDEX

Reviews

"Finally, a book that describes in depth how to teach and assess the essential skills most needed to thrive in the innovation era. This book deserves to be read, re-read, annotated, and dog-eared by every K-12 educator."

Tony Wagner, Senior Research Fellow and author of "The Global Achivement Gap" and "Creating Innovators"
Learning Policy Institute

"In Teach to Develop Talent: How to Motivate and Engage Tomorrow’s Innovators Today, Jeanne Paynter presents a brilliant way to cultivate future innovators by developing their talents. This is a very thoughtful, visionary, and practical book for educators."

Yong Zhao, Foundation Distinguished Professor and Author of "Reach for Greatness" and "World Class Learners"
University of Kansas and Melbourne Graduate School of Education

"Gardner defined multiple intelligences in the 80s, Wiggins defined backwards design in the 90s, Daggett started the century off with the rigor/relevance framework, followed by Dweck who defined fixed and growth mindsets. Paynter’s Teach to Develop Talent is the next education revelation."

Charla Bunker, Teacher
Whittier Elementary Great Falls, MT

“In today’s world, where there are new technologies and innovations created every day, we need people who can fill these new jobs. Our students need to become more than great test-takers. Schools need to prepare students to meet the demand of new opportunities, which involve students being strategic and logical, problem-solvers and innovators. The curriculum being offered in schools need to be adjusted. We need to foster students’ creativity, curiosity, and their natural talents. Teach to Develop Talent provides rubrics and expectations for teachers and learners alike. The talents and attributes of innovators are identified, and guidelines for how these attributes can be used to create an environment to guide students in developing their talents is provided.”

Ellen Asregadoo, Teacher
Public School 190

"Teach to Develop Talent is a step-by-step guide for incorporating talent identification and strengthening into the regular classroom curriculum and inspiring the next generation of innovators in their classrooms. It includes documented research for each chapter and has an easy-to-follow format to help teachers integrate the principles into their existing curriculum. One of the strengths of this book is that it takes the idea of teaching to develop talent and illustrates how it can be incorporated into the standards and units that are already happening in the classroom. Another is the fact that it focuses on what kind of thinkers we want our students to become beyond the high stakes tests and content standards."

David Grossman, Science Teacher
Elizabethtown High School

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Access to companion resources is available with the purchase of this book.
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