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Research Into Practice: Exploring Teacher Practices With Young Gifted Learners, Andrea Lauren Heming
Research Into Practice: Exploring Teacher Practices With Young Gifted Learners, Andrea Lauren Heming
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This research study investigates teacher practices with young gifted learners and provides recommendations to increase the effectiveness of the Primary Talent Pool through examination of the program as it is implemented in four Kentucky school districts. Gifted coordinators were interviewed and primary (kindergarten-third grade) teachers were surveyed. Though each school has different methods for meeting the needs of high potential learners, there are commonalities across all seven schools represented. The present findings indicate teachers feel confident in their ability to recognize high potential in academic areas. Teachers are comfortable using differentiation, and often differentiate to support gifted learners.
Passionate About Early Childhood Educational Policy, Practice, And Pedagogy: Exploring Intersections Between Discourses, Experiences, And Feelings...Knitting New Terms Of Belonging, Pam Whitty, Monica Lysack, Patricia Lirette, Joanne Lehrer, Jane Hewes
Passionate About Early Childhood Educational Policy, Practice, And Pedagogy: Exploring Intersections Between Discourses, Experiences, And Feelings...Knitting New Terms Of Belonging, Pam Whitty, Monica Lysack, Patricia Lirette, Joanne Lehrer, Jane Hewes
Publications and Scholarship
We are five early childhood researchers, from across Canada, thrown together amongst a series of alarming discourses, where developmental, economic, and neuroscientific rationales for ECEC drown out alternative theoretical perspectives, as well as personal experience, values, subjective knowledges, and the fierce passion we feel for our work. In the midst of this “throwntogethness” (Massey, 2005), how do we bring our situated knowings and desires to these discursive material relational mashups? How do we engage with the throwntogetherness that is the Canadian ECEC field as we knit together alternative ways of being, doing, and acting, figuring out what resonates in localized …