Professor Emeritus of Art Education and Gifted and Talented EducationRoeper ReviewClark G, Zimmerman E (2002). Tending the special spark: accelerated and enriched curricula for highly talented art students. Roeper Rev. 24: 161-168.Clark,G Tending the Special Spark: Accelerated and Enriched ...
Gifted pupils: who are they, what do they do? The aim of this study is to investigate (1) to what extent schools can identify types of excellence among their children in an early stage of their education, using regular sources of information, such as the school?s Student Tracking Sy......
creativity, humor, inquiry, insight, interests, memory, motivation, problem solving ability and reasoning. Gifted students exhibit many of these characteristics, but not necessarily all. Some of the characteristics can be viewed as negatives in certain situations and environments. According to ...
Inservice Teacher EducationFaculty DevelopmentJunior High School StudentsForeign CountriesTeaching mathematically gifted students is a challenging pursuit, especially at the secondary level. However, characterizing teachers who can successfully meet this challenge has so far been scarcely addressed directly. In...
Ms. Daniels teaches English-language learners (ELL students), students with individualized education programs, and gifted and talented students in her heterogeneous, mainstream science classes of 20 to 24 students. She differentiates instruction to help all students learn high-level science content and ...
Preschool EducationSocial DevelopmentThe paper reports findings of a study describing and analyzing the creative and social behavior of four highly original children in the context of 1 year's preschool experience. Videotape, interview, participant observation, and artifact data were collected to ...
regular classroom. As an only option, the experience can be minimal for the gifted students. Combined with others, it can enhance the learning and provide options for teachers who are seeking to develop special talents or interests of students. (Hearne and Maurer, Gifted Education: A Primer) ...
Communication Consulting for the Highly Gifted and Sensitive If your work is ineffable or highly complex, organizing and translating your work into form can feel impossible. Empowered professional communication can be challenging when you are gifted and sensitive. I assist you in becoming a confident ...
Perhaps better put, creativity is a subtext of discipline. The word alone brings layers of implication to the subject of creativity. In athletics there are wildly talented, gifted performers who quickly take a back seat to slower, less gifted veterans of the game. The reason is discipline. So...
Aged almost 5 and in my first year of primary school (as was customary for Scottish 5-year-olds at that time) I had a magical teacher called Miss Kay. She found out, in the first week of school, that I could already read, and she responded quietly and without fuss by putting me on...