Kenneth J. Smith

Challenging Units for Gifted Learners (eBook, ePUB)

Teaching the Way Gifted Students Think (Language Arts, Grades 6-8)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gifted students have the potential to learn material earlier and faster, to handle more complexity and abstraction, and to solve complex problems better. This potential, however, needs stimulating experiences from home and school or it will not unfold. The books in the Challenging Units for Gifted Learners series are designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. The units presented in this series are based on research into how these students actually think differently from their peers and how they use their learning styles and potential not merely to develop intellectual expertise, but to move beyond expertise to the production of new ideas.

The Language Arts book includes units that ask students to develop strong personalities for their main characters while writing mysteries, to study Freud's psychoanalytic theory and then analyze a classic novel using what they've learned, to focus on writing from a specific point of view, and to increase their appreciation for poetry by studying famous poets.

Grades 6-8

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000490985
• Artikelnr.: 62526167

Autorenporträt

Kenneth J. Smith, Ph.D., works at Sunset Ridge School District 29 in Northfield, IL, a suburb of Chicago. He currently runs the district-wide enrichment program. In 1995, Ken earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Columbia University in New York. He was an American Memories fellow for the Library of Congress, and his articles have appeared in The Middle School Journal and Gifted Child Today.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Chapter 1Introduction: We Are Intellectual Archeologists
Chapter 2 What Are They Thinking? The Cognitive Processes of Gifted
Learners Chapter 3 A Mystery Writing Project Chapter 4. A Freudian Analysis
of Literature Chapter 5The Point of View Writing Project Chapter 6
Poems From Nature References About the Author Common Core State Standards
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