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A Practical Guide Using A Variety Of Instructional Methods For Teaching Reading To Gifted Students, Melissa Caveness
A Practical Guide Using A Variety Of Instructional Methods For Teaching Reading To Gifted Students, Melissa Caveness
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Gifted students spend most of their school day, if not all, learning in the regular classroom. Often, this environment is not conducive to their learning needs, and there is a lack of readily available supplemental materials that teachers can use to meet the needs of the gifted students. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to create a handbook that provides different strategies for teachers to use when teaching gifted students in the regular classroom. The project contains five thematic units that incorporate and utilize literature and comprehension strategies. This project first focuses definitions and identifiers of gifted students academically …
Gifted Education In The Middle, Debra Ann Carlson
Gifted Education In The Middle, Debra Ann Carlson
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Educators have always been concerned with addressing the needs of gifted students within the regular classroom. It has become difficult to challenge all children when school populations are composed of diverse groups with special needs, interests, abilities, and learning styles. With an interest in the education of highly capable (gifted and talented) students, the author did extensive reading and research. This project encompasses a variety of strategies, grouping practices and programs that can be implemented into a regular classroom to accommodate the gifted population. With this comes a focus on meeting the unique affective and academic needs of the gifted …
Teaching Strategies And Resources For Gifted Middle School Student In Regular Education Classrooms, Meena Thukral
Teaching Strategies And Resources For Gifted Middle School Student In Regular Education Classrooms, Meena Thukral
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The purpose of the project was to develop a resource and strategies manual that could equip middle school regular education teachers to teach gifted students in their classrooms. The resource manual includes various instructional strategies that address learning styles, differentiated curriculum, enrichment in the regular education classrooms, and thinking skills. It also includes a list of published books and Internet sites for teachers to share with other teachers, parents, and gifted students.
Enrichment Materials In Reading Designed For The Gifted First Grade Child, Virginia Ann Burke
Enrichment Materials In Reading Designed For The Gifted First Grade Child, Virginia Ann Burke
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This project provides enrichment reading materials for the first grade child who is designated as gifted and is reading beyond the preprimer and primer levels at the beginning of the school year. The materials are divided into four areas; (1) word recognition, (2) comprehension, (3) vocabulary, and (4) study skills. In each of these areas, enrichment activities have been prepared with the most emphasis given to comprehension. Although originally designed to be used independently, the materials can be used as skill teaching devices. The difficulty of the materials varies; therefore, the materials have been sequenced according to difficulty.
A Study To Determine A Program For The Gifted Child In The Eastmont Elementary Schools, Marian Deboer
A Study To Determine A Program For The Gifted Child In The Eastmont Elementary Schools, Marian Deboer
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This paper was written to suggest a possible approach to the problem of meeting the needs of gifted elementary children in the Eastmont Schools of East Wenatchee, Washington.
An Honors Suppliment To The Curriculum In American History For West Valley High School Juniors, Nell Caroline Paschen
An Honors Suppliment To The Curriculum In American History For West Valley High School Juniors, Nell Caroline Paschen
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In a search for ways of perpetuating essential values in a free society, citizens and educators have come to realize that their greatest resource lies in the talents of young people. Leadership of society must be developed from the excellent minds of students in the schools. This leadership will be nurtured by inducing an insight into human relationships and by giving an understanding of the background of cherished American institutions. This work is based on the conviction that teachers of social studies are conscious of an obligation to fill the needs of gifted students for enrichment in breadth of subject …