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Preparing Preservice Teacher For All Learners: A Book Critique On Gifted Education And Gifted Students, David S. Wolff
Preparing Preservice Teacher For All Learners: A Book Critique On Gifted Education And Gifted Students, David S. Wolff
The Advocate
If is often said that undergraduate coursework in gifted education is a paragraph or chapter in a book. Without specific coursework regarding gifted education and gifted learners, preservice teachers are partially equipped to meet the diverse learning needs in today’s classrooms. This article provides a review of Gifted Education and Gifted Students: A Guide for Inservice and Preservice Teachers by Margot and Melin (2020) as a recommended primer for preservice teachers to gain basic knowledge and understanding of who gifted learners are and how to provided appropriate services for them.
Parental Involvement And Its Impact On Student Academic Achievement, Tia Cook
Parental Involvement And Its Impact On Student Academic Achievement, Tia Cook
Journal of Graduate Education Research
The purpose of this non-experimental study was to determine if parental involvement levels have an effect on the gifted and talented (GT) status of fourth grade students. An additional purpose of the study was to determine if there was a difference between the academic performance of GT and non-GT students. The participants were a convenience sample of 50 parents or guardians of fourth grade students at a public middle school in the southeastern United States. The participants completed a researcher-made survey to determine the level of parental involvement in the fourth grade student’s academics. An analysis of the results indicated …
Australian Gifted And Talented Education: An Analysis Of Government Policies, Jennifer L. Jolly, Jennifer H. Robins
Australian Gifted And Talented Education: An Analysis Of Government Policies, Jennifer L. Jolly, Jennifer H. Robins
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Education policy signals the level of support or importance for high-performing or gifted and talented students to school leaders, educators, parents, and other stakeholders. These policies communicate the value or goals of departments of education. Given the importance of education policy, there remains a void in the analysis of gifted and talented education policy, which accounts for less than 1% of the empirical literature. We sought to understand how publicly available individual state and territory departments of education’s gifted and talented education policies and guidance documents coalesce with the NAGC (2019) Pre-K–Grade 12 Gifted Education Programming Standards. Although not developed …
Teachers’ Perceptions Of The Federal Definition Of Gifted And Talented, Bruce Battles
Teachers’ Perceptions Of The Federal Definition Of Gifted And Talented, Bruce Battles
Kentucky Teacher Educator
The Tennessee state law as it refers to the gifted and talented is not as specific in the characteristics found in the Federal definition. The purpose of this study was to find if the perceptions of the local teachers agreed with the Federal characteristics. A survey of 80 middle Tennessee teachers was completed. The total number of schools surveyed was 4 public and one private school. The survey was rated using a 5 point Linker scale. The results were analyzed using the SPSS statistical program. A paired samples test was used in the data analysis. It was found that while …