Gifted and Talented [electronic resource] : Developing Elementary and Secondary School Programs / Bruce O. Boston, Ed.

Examined in five papers are issues involved in developing elementary and secondary school programs for the gifted and talented. Emphasized by E. Drews is the need for educating the gifted and talented toward more humanizing values, and reviewed are examples of experimental curricula and learning env...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ERIC)
Corporate Author: ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children
Other Authors: Boston, Bruce O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1975.
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Summary:Examined in five papers are issues involved in developing elementary and secondary school programs for the gifted and talented. Emphasized by E. Drews is the need for educating the gifted and talented toward more humanizing values, and reviewed are examples of experimental curricula and learning environments. A national administrator's perspectives on such problems as grouping procedures and community abdication of responsibility to the gifted and talented are presented by B. McLaughlin. Cited by A. Baldwin are teaching strategies for gifted disadvantaged students. Considered in B. Boston's paper are methods of identifying gifted and talented pupils and organizing programs. The roles of change agents and facilitators are among the topics covered in an interview with J. Gallagher. Listed are 21 current publications on the gifted and talented, and provided is a bibliography of approximately 150 references on such topics as creativity, guidance and counseling, and teacher training. (CL)
Item Description:ERIC Document Number: ED117886.
Availability: Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091 ($3.00).
Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Educational level discussed: Elementary Secondary Education.
Physical Description:49 p.