Susan Rakow

Educating Gifted Students in Middle School (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Educating Gifted Students in Middle School: A Practical Guide (3rd ed.) helps educators with the challenging task of understanding and meeting the needs of gifted students in middle school. This revised and updated third edition:

• Provides a rationale and framework that middle schools can use to fill the service gap for gifted and advanced learners.
• Addresses the needs of learners from diverse backgrounds.
• Shows how to implement effective program models.
• Identifies best practices for the classroom.
• Shares research-based curriculum models.

Topics addressed include school organization, instructional strategies in the basic subject areas, cocurricular and summer programs, the missing link of executive function skills, and counseling at-risk gifted learners. Educating Gifted Students in Middle School focuses on creative, practical, and realistic school solutions that create a vital and responsive community for all students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sourcebooks Inc
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618219831
• Artikelnr.: 59880092

Autorenporträt

Susan Rakow, Ph.D., is visiting assistant professor in Curriculum and Gifted Education at Cleveland State University. She earned her doctorate at Kent State University in Middle School and Gifted Education. Currently, she coedits the NAGC Middle Grades Division e-newsletter Middle Matters. She presents, consults, and writes about gifted adolescents and how to serve their broad range of needs. More importantly, she is the parent of two gifted children.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface to the Third Edition CHAPTER 1 Nature and Needs of Gifted Middle School Students CHAPTER 2 Diverse Populations of Gifted Learners CHAPTER 3 Anxiety
Depression
Underachievement
and Executive Function Skills CHAPTER 4 Special Notes for Gifted Intervention Specialists
Counselors
and Administrators CHAPTER 5 National Reform Movements and Trends CHAPTER 6 Organizational Structures and Program Models: Developing a Continuum of Services CHAPTER 7 Curricular and Instructional Strategies CHAPTER 8 Differentiating Instruction: A Supplement to
Not a Substitute for
Gifted Programming CHAPTER 9 Science
Technology
Engineering
and Math CHAPTER 10 Focus on the Humanities: The Arts
Social Studies
and Literacy CHAPTER 11 Outside the Box: Competitions
Summer Programs
and More References APPENDIX A NMSA/NAGC Joint Position Statement APPENDIX B Curriculum Review Checklist APPENDIX C Sycamore School Middle School Reading Strategies and Skills About the Author