Ensure high expectations and engaging learning experiences for all students Providing all students with authentic experiences focused on strengths and learning progression-not deficits and gap filling-can change their trajectory. It's time to use strategies typically reserved for advanced and gifted learners to advance all students' learning. Designed to support equitable access and opportunities through rigorous and engaging assessment, curriculum, and instruction, Accelerating Learning for All, PreK-8, provides strategies to move all students towards becoming independent critical thinkers and problem-solvers-a goal that should not be contingent on background, assessment performance, or zip code. Packed with evidence-based practices and culturally responsive teaching methods, this book includes: Strategies to support diverse learners and develop student voice Support for social emotional learning Tools, prompts, and exercises The current educational environment is ripe for change. Authors McKinney and Urlik help teachers put equity into action with strategies proven to deepen and accelerate learning for all.
How to Motivate and Engage Tomorrow's Innovators Today
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.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of key challenges in the field of gifted education, with contributions from a range of expert international authors.
Created to fill a gap in both counsellor education and gifted education, this text provides a concise and practical overview of counselling services designed specifically for gifted and talented students. The book illuminates specific knowledge, awareness, and skills school counsellors need to address concerns related not only to academics, but ......
Divided into sections that represent the key features of effective services for gifted and talented students, this is a comprehensive and authoritative source of practical information for schools and districts charged with the daunting task of developing and/or enhancing G/T programs and services.
An unprecedented collaboration between leading names from the independent and state sectors, this thought-provoking book addresses the current crisis in education for the most able. Grounded in the classroom, the authors draw on their own first-hand experiences and international research to scrutinise techniques and practices from leading countries, exploring the more divisive issues that have damaged teaching worldwide. Demonstrating what works well in teaching the most able, and also what does not work, the book offers a radical solution, a stimulus to thought and a way forward for teachers, academics and all those with responsibility for ensuring high standards in education, including governments and members of regulatory authorities.
An unprecedented collaboration between leading names from the independent and state sectors, this thought-provoking book addresses the current crisis in education for the most able. Grounded in the classroom, the authors draw on their own first-hand experiences and international research to scrutinise techniques and practices from leading countries, exploring the more divisive issues that have damaged teaching worldwide. Demonstrating what works well in teaching the most able, and also what does not work, the book offers a radical solution, a stimulus to thought and a way forward for teachers, academics and all those with responsibility for ensuring high standards in education, including governments and members of regulatory authorities.
Scholarly work in gifted and talented education has expanded rapidly in the last four decades throughout the world, but the number and diversity of journals in which these works are published make access difficult for many researchers and practitioners. This Major Work gathers key research studies from that vast array of international resources, focusing in turn on assessing and educating gifted and talented, and creative students, with organization and commentary that allows the user easy access to and understanding of the literature. Volume One: Assessing Intellectual Giftedness and Academic Talent Volume Two: Educating and Guiding Gifted and Talented Students Volume Three: Assessing Creativity Volume Four: Educating and Guiding Creative Students
The articles in this volume address the numerous challenges educators face in their attempts to accurately identify gifted and talented students. Solutions to these challenges and avenues of future exploration are also discussed.
