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Ua3/3 Wanted: Uncommon Men, O. J. Wilson

WKU Administration Documents

Speech delivered by O.J. Wilson at first WKU Honors Program.

A Review Of The Needs And Provisions Of The Academically Talented Student In The United States Public Schools, Weston Whitney

Graduate Student Research Papers

This paper is a review of the educational needs of talented learners. It also discusses suggested special curricula for them.

An Investigation Of Current Practices In The Education Of Gifted Children In Small High Schools Of Central Washington, 1959-1960, Warren O. Kidder

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study (1) to evaluate current policy in the education of gifted children in small high schools in Central Washington; (2) to investigate the principle of equal opportunity in its relation to individual capacity; (3) to consider the probability of a need for the greater development of ability; (4) to compare the current opportunities in these schools with standards indicated by recognized studies and to evaluate the areas of improvement.

Enrichment Activities In Arithmetic, Social Studies, And Sciece For The Gifted Intermediate Graduate Student, Walter Ned Croshaw

Graduate Student Research Papers

This paper is offered as a starting point for the teacher seeking challenging, creative activities for the gifted child. It is hoped that suggestions contained herein can be adapted to meet classroom situations and serve as inspiration for new and better activities. Due to the limited space available, emphasis will be laid on enrichment activities in arithmetic, social studies, and science. The language and fine arts offer limitless opportunities for enrichment. Arithmetic, social studies, and science also offer excellent enrichment opportunities, but often these are not so evident as in other areas. For that reason, an effort will be made …

Educational Results Of Gifted Child Programs In Elementary Schools, Frank A. Deymonaz

Graduate Student Research Papers

Essentially, all programs are enrichment programs. They are designed to provide for individual work, for differentiated assignments, for greater depth of learning, or for more rapid pace. Each seeks to enrich by providing more or different learning opportunities. For practical purposes programs can be categorized into the following three classifications: (1) enrichment within the regular classroom, (2) acceleration, and (3) segregation. The purpose of this paper then shall be to review research concerning these organizational patterns to ascertain their educational benefits.

An Honors Suppliment To The Curriculum In American History For West Valley High School Juniors, Nell Caroline Paschen

Graduate Student Research Papers

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 …

A Study To Determine A Program For The Gifted Child In The Eastmont Elementary Schools, Marian Deboer

Graduate Student Research Papers

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.

Ability Grouping In English Classes Of The Secondary Schools: A Survey With Emphasis On Students Of Low And Superior Abilities, Jane Lorraine Gruver

Graduate Student Research Papers

This paper will discuss ability grouping, particularly as applied to the English classes of the secondary school. Special attention will be given to plans recognizing the student of low ability as well as to courses especially evolved for the gifted student. Although guidance and counseling are associated with grouping, they will not enter into the scope of this paper except incidentally.

A Supplementary Art Program For Artistically Gifted Children, Adele Foster Pruitt

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study has been to create guidelines for the development of a supplementary art program for "artistically gifted" children of intermediate grade level .

Enriching The Curriculum For The Gifted Child In A Fifth Grade Classroom, Margaret Frances Hotsko

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was twofold: to get a better understanding of the gifted child and to find out how a fifth grade classroom teacher could best meet the needs of this child. The problems were: (1) identification of the gifted child, (2) placement of the gifted child, and (3) determining the teaching procedures to be used in working with the gifted child.

Ua68/6/2 Presentation Of The First Annual Gordon Wilson Award, Wku Leiper English Club

Student Organizations

Statement by anonymous author re: the presentation of the Gordon Wilson Award to Mary Grise.

The Role Of The Elementary School Principal In The Education Of The Gifted Child, Delmar Elder

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

The Principal's Part In Planning The Program For The Gifted Child, Jack Edwards Dickson

Master's Theses

A major responsibility of school administration lies in recognizing current trends in education. One or the current major trends in education today is that or discovering, planning and providing for the gifted child. More than ever, men and women with ability are needed in positions of influence in all fields of human relations and technical know- ledge. To discover and develop talent and ability, and to facilitate their use for common good, must be a major objective of the school and community. "The democratic ideal can be most fully attained when every individual has opportunity for educational experiences commensurate with …

Provisions For Development Of Leadership In Gifted Children In The Elementary School, Elmer David Dalton

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Gifted Child In The Intermediate Grades, Nelle Phillips

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of The Programs For Education Of Gifted Children In United States, Margaret Ackerman

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the provisions for gifted children made in the schools of the United States, (2) to consider the relative merits of the various procedures, and (3) to consider ways in which these procedures are applied, and (4) to describe the methods which the average teacher can use in her classroom.

An Investigation Of Current Educational Practices For Providing For Gifted Children In The Elementary Schools Of The State Of Washington, Earl Frederick Knuth

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current practices of the elementary schools in the State of Washington in providing for the educational needs of their gifted children, with the ultimate goal of discovering new practices that would be useful to the elementary schools of Yakima, Washington.

The Identification And Education Of The Gifted Child In The Regular Classroom, Charles M. Chapman

All Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this study to prepare the way for a better understanding of the mentally gifted child and how his needs can best be met in the regular classroom.

Gifted Children, Annie Belle Dehart Atwill

Master's Theses

Intellectually gifted children constitute one of a nation's greatest natural resources. High intelligence is the most important single attribute of the human race. All progress of civilization has probably been achieved through persons possessing special talents, together with a superior mind; all future progress will also depend on such persons with ability.

This study is delimited, first, by selecting the demarcating place at a point that will include all children falling in the hundredth percentile; the one per cent of the elementary school population thnt can enrn a 140 I. Q. or above on the Stanford-Binet Scale.These children will b …

The Training Of The Gifted Child, Julia Margaret Lowery

Bachelors’ Theses

The fact that every school population has its quota of children of superior mental endowment is no longer questioned. The fact that they present a real and challenging problem to school administrators and teachers is everywhere accepted.

What Is The Gifted Child?, Jessie R. Pendergast

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this study is to identify the gifted. As it is to them that the world must look for progress, their identification should become the most important of all social arrangements so that they may not become corrupted by luxury or starved by poverty. This selection is most important. As general intelligence is not to be determined from external symptoms but from the quality of thinking, the most satisfactory methods of identifying the gifted are by means of those characteristics which distinguish them as a group. These characteristics may be determined through reactions in general intelligence tests and …

The Gifted Child, Caroline Krause Harling

Bachelors’ Theses

The idea of providing special educational facilities for children of superior intelligence is by no means a novel one. The subject has recently come to engage a large part of the attention, not only of psychologists and educationists but also of laymen. If nature really endows some children intellect­ually more generously than she does others - and the data pre­sented in this thesis will convince any fair-minded person that this is the case - the fact is of importance to those who are interested in social advancement as well as to those teachers and parents who are striving to do …

Gifted Children, Esther Wolfgram

Bachelors’ Theses

In the past few years, the problem of the gifted children has been more thoroughly investigated than formerly. The experiments pertaining to the unfortunates--the delinquent and the feeble-minded--have been numerous, but the experiments dealing with the more fortunate have been neglected. This unfortunate neglect of the gifted has been due to the tendency of people to notice whatever gives them pain or annoyance. These problems were studied and experimented with; but the gifted children at the other end of the scale were neglected. The idea in teaching was to lift up the lowly end so there would not be such …

The Gifted Child, Ida H. Witt

Bachelors’ Theses

Our goal in the educational field today is a nation of independent thinkers, characterized by the qualities of initiative, self-reliance, and the marks of a good citizen--unselfish devotion and service toward group, class, city, and nation. In order to realize this goal, all the educational forces must unite in the recognition of instinctive capacities and potentialities and provide such situations as will modify and develop the same to the degree where all knowledge and skill may operate toward as complete a social adjustment as is humanly possible.

A Study Of The Exceptional Child, C. Elizabeth Haisler

Bachelors’ Theses

The content of this paper is based on ten years of personal observation and close study of the problem presented by the Exceptional Child.