Designing Defensible Classroom Programs for Gifted Secondary School Learners: A Handbook for Teachers

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ISBN-13	9780473175177
ISBN-10	0473175177
Stock	Available
Status	Available at publisher; usually ships 5-14 working days
Publisher	SONIA WHITE
Imprint	Sonia White Gifted Consultancy
Publication Date	1 April 2011
Publication Country	New Zealand
Format	Paperback
Author(s)	By White, Sonia
Category	Secondary Schools Teaching Of Gifted Children

Description of this Book

This handbook for middle schools and secondary schools will assist teachers, departments or faculty groups and school management to focus upon their planning and provisions for gifted learners. It provides opportunities to measure current practice against best practice for gifted, and for teachers to ask: What are we doing right? What's missing? and What can we do better? Each section includes teacher reflection activities and checklists, so that reflective practice can be planned, trialled and evaluated through teacher inquiry. It includes: Developing your vision by creating a Gifted Graduate Profile; The characteristics of gifted learners; Curriculum delivery and classroom practice: gifted learners' voices and the most effective options for gifted learners from the research; The DPI Model for gifted learners: Differentiating, personalising and individualising learning, with practical examples and ways of implementing them; Other gifted education models which differentiate learning; Curriculum development for gifted learners in the classroom - essential elements in unit overviews and unit content; A rich range of classroom tools and strategies for teachers with practical examples for teachers to trial, including an adapted Blooms taxonomy model, Tony Ryan's Thinker's Keys, Eberle's SCAMPER, Socratic Questioning, Lipman's Caring Thinking, and Williams Taxonomy; Classroom management techniques and a wealth of ideas of how to use the tools and strategies provided in assessment, teaching practice and raising student thinking to a sophisticated level. Best practice for gifted brings added value to all classrooms and is valuable for all teachers. Not only will understanding best practice for gifted learners raise the bar for this group of learners, it will influence the way teachers facilitate learning for all students. Catering for gifted is not about provisions for an elite few. There are a far greater number of gifted students than many teachers realise. These often sit within the comfort zone of the main cohort and underachieve for a variety of reasons. A focus upon identifying potential as well as high achievers, and upon providing an appropriate level of challenge can result in a real increase in student achievement.

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Author's Bio

Sonia White (M. Gifted Ed) is a New Zealand Gifted Education specialist with a long term passion and involvement in gifted education at both primary and secondary school level. She has worked for 8 years as an advisor to schools providing in-service professional development in gifted education through the University of Auckland. Prior to that she was gifted education coordinator for 15 years. Sonia is now a gifted education consultant who works with school management, gifted education coordinators and teachers, providing professional development and mentoring in Primary, Secondary, Intermediate and Middle Schools. Sonia works locally, nationally and internationally in this field. More details about her are available on her website www.giftedconsultant.ac.nz .

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