Education of the gifted and talented /

Davis, Gary A.

Education of the gifted and talented / Gary A. Davis and Sylvia B. Rimm - THIRD EDITION - Boston, Massachusetts : Allyn and Bacon Inc., c1994 - xv, 494 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Gifted education: matching instruction with needs -- Chapter 2. Characteristics of gifted students -- Chapter 3. Program planning -- Chapter 4. Identifying gifted and talented students -- Chapter 5. Acceleration -- Chapter 6. Enrichment and grouping -- Chapter 7. Curriculum models -- Chapter 8. Affective learning and leadership -- Chapter 9. Creativity I: The creative person, creative process, and creative dramatics -- Chapter 10. Creativity II: teaching for creative growth -- Chapter 11. Teaching thinking skills -- Chapter 12. Culturally diverse and low socioeconomic children: the invisible gifted -- Chapter 13. Underachievement: diagnosis and treatment -- Chapter 14. the cultural underachievement of females -- Chapter 15. Gifted children with handicaps -- Chapter 16. Parenting the gifted child -- Chapter 17. Understanding and counseling gifted students -- Chapter 18. Program evaluation.

To provide programs designed to help meet the psychological, social, educational, and career needs of gifted and talented students. To assist students in becoming individuals who are able to take self-initiated action. .. and who are capable of intelligent choice, independent learning, and problem solving. Ya To develop problem solving abilities and creative thinking skills; develop research skills; nsbe strengthen individual interests; develop independent study skills; strengthen communication TO - skills; receive intellectual stimulation from contact with other highly motivated students; and their expand their learning activities to include resources available in the entire community. To maximize learning and individual development and to minimize boredom, confusion, and frustration.

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GIFTED CHILDREN EDUCATION

LC 3993.9 .D4 1994