All chapters close with Summary. 1.Gifted Education: Matching Instruction with Needs. History of Giftedness and Gifted Education. Contemporary History of Gifted Education. National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Ability Grouping and Gifted Education. Cooperative Learning.
Definitions of Giftedness. 2.Characteristics of Gifted Students. The Terman Studies. Walberg's Studies of Historically Eminent Men, Women, and High School Artists and Scientists. Traits of Intellectually Gifted Children. Affective Characteristics. Characteristics of the Creatively Gifted.
Origins of High Talent and Extreme Precocity. Characteristics of Teachers of the Gifted. 3.Program Planning. Main Components of Program Planning. Why, Who, What, Where, When, and How Questions. Program Planning: Fifteen Areas. The View From the School Board.
Perspectives of Other Teachers. Scope and Sequence in Gifted Programs. The Death of Gifted Programs. Appendix 3.1. 4.Identifying Gifted and Talented Students. Thoughts and Issues in Identification.
National Report on Identification. Identification Methods. Identifying Gifted Preschoolers. Identifying Gifted Secondary Students. Recommendations from the National Report on Identification. Talent Pool Identification Plan: Renzulli. Comment. Appendix 4.
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5. Appendix 4.6. 5.Acceleration. Acceleration Versus Enrichment. Early Admission to Kindergarten or First Grade. Grade-Skipping.
Subject-Skipping. Early Admission to Junior or Senior High School. Credit by Examination. College Courses in High School. Correspondence Courses. Telescoped Programs. Early Admission to College. Residential High Schools.
International Baccalaureate Programs. Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth and Talent Search. College Board Offices. 6.Enrichment and Grouping. Enrichment. Independent Study, Research, and Art Projects. Learning Centers.
Field Trips. Saturday Programs. Summer Programs. Mentors and Mentorships. Future Problem Solving. Odyssey of the Mind. Junior Great Books. Academic Decathlon.
Mock Court. Other Academic Competitions. Grouping Options: Bring Gifted Students Together. Appendix 6.1. 7.Curriculum Models. Enrichment Triad Model.
Secondary Triad Model. Schoolwide Enrichment Model. Multiple Menu Mode. Pyramid Project. Purdue Three-Stage Enrichment Model. Guilford/Meeker Structure of Intellect (SOI) Model. Treffinger's Model for Increasing Self-Directedness. Autonomous Learner Model: Betts.
Williams' Model for Developing Thinking and Feeling Processes. Multiple-Talent Totem Pole Model. Programming at Four Ability Levels: Treffinger and Sortore. Comment. Appendix 7.1. 8.Affective Learning and Leadership.
Affective Learning. Self-Concept. Moral Development: The Kohlberg Model.