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Teaching Students With Gifts and Talents

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Bob Algozzine, Jim Ysseldyke

Discover how you can meet the needs of the gifted and talented students in your classroom!

The authors offer educators helpful information for identifying gifted and talented students, and present effective instructional approaches, such as enrichment and acceleration, to ensure that these exceptional students are constantly challenged and engaged. Highlights include:

A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of giftedness and how the needs of gifted and talented students are best addressed
Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with high-ability learners
Effective instructional approaches and activities to keep gifted and talented students motivated and reaching ever-higher levels of achievement
Key vocabulary terms

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412939065
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 120
Publication date: March 24, 2006

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Discover how you can meet the needs of the gifted and talented students in your classroom!

Students who are gifted and/or talented are known more for their contributions and potential contributions than any other group of students. Meeting the educational needs of these students, however, can be a tremendous challenge for those who teach them. In Teaching Students With Gifts and Talents, Bob Algozzine and Jim Ysseldyke offer educators helpful information for identifying gifted and talented students, and present effective instructional approaches-enrichment and acceleration-to ensure that these exceptional students are constantly challenged and engaged.

Highlights include:

A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of giftedness and how the needs of gifted and talented students are best addressed
Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with high-ability learners
Effective instructional approaches and activities to keep gifted and talented students motivated and reaching ever-higher levels of achievement
Key vocabulary terms

A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher: The 13-Book Collection
This collection equips educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring-and meeting-their fullest potential.

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Key features

Practical, accessible, research-based information and advice distilled from a highly-successful textbook
Numerous case studies
Practical, age-appropriate strategies for the classroom
Reflection/professional development exercises
Resources – books, articles, organizations
Linked to IDEA 2004

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Bob Algozzine

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.

Jim Ysseldyke

Jim Ysseldyke, Ph.D., is Birkmaier Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, director of the School Psychology Program, and director of the Center for Reading Research at the University of Minnesota. Widely requested as a staff developer and conference speaker, Ysseldyke brings more than 30 years of research and teaching experience to educational professionals around the globe.

As the former director of the federally funded National Center on Educational Outcomes, Ysseldyke conducted research and provided technical support that helped to boost the academic performance of students with disabilities and improve school assessment techniques nationally. Today, he continues to work to improve the education of students with disabilities.

The author of more than 300 publications on special education and school psychology, Ysseldyke is best known for his textbooks on assessment, effective instruction, issues in special education, and other cutting-edge areas of education and school psychology. With A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher, Ysseldyke seeks to equip educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring—and meeting—all their potentials.

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Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Teaching Students With Gifts and Talents

1.Which Students Do We Consider Gifted and/or Talented?

Federal Legislation

Varying State Definitions

Identification of Students With Gifts and Talents

2.What Characteristics Are Associated With Gifts and Talents?

Cognitive

Academic

Physical

Behavioral

Communication

3.What Should Every Teacher Know About Teaching Students With Gifts and Talents?

Enrichment Tactics

Acceleration Tactics

4.What Trends or Issues Influence How We Teach Students With Gifts and Talents?

The Evolving Concept of Giftedness

Moving Beyond Intelligence Tests

Tips for Teachers

5.Gifts and Talents in Perspective

6. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Books

Journals

Organizations

References

Index

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