This article explores how TCTELA's 2024 Teachers of the Year forged the future through their literacy teaching at the elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels. Each essay captures how they understand their work as literacy educators and intentionally educate their students toward a brighter future amid trying local contexts. The…

This article aims to describe how schools should structure the development of academic talent at all levels of the K-12 educational system. Adopting as its theoretical framework the "Differentiating Model of Giftedness and Talent," the author proposes (a) a formal definition of academic talent development (ATD) inspired by the principles…

Immigrant college student populations continue to grow, but the complexity of their unique needs and issues remain relatively unknown. To gain a better understanding of the multiple contextual factors impacting immigrant students from a systems-based approach, I applied Bronfenbrenner's (1977) human ecology framework to the study. Students…

Reaffirms the random and unpredictable nature of second-order changes. Sees human beings as open systems and entropy determining the irreversibility of such systems. Appreciates readers' advocacy of research to test the theory and suggests the need for practitioners and teachers to be open to change in themselves if they are to expect others to…

The model presented is intended to return discipline to a legitimate place in education and educational research; it focuses on three elements--pupil development, ecological factors, and disciplinary approaches. (DS)

Presents "upstream", a model for the utilization of professional counseling services in the residence halls, encompassing developmental, preventive, and remedial approaches. Suggests that the professional counselor can assist in four capacities in the actualization of these approaches: as a therapist, as a consultant, as a change agent,…

Finds Caple's self-organization paradigm useful in its examination of mechanisms by which change in college students can be examined and ultimately predicted and influenced. Doubts the value of Caple's using analogies from physics, or argument by analogy in forming the theory. Advocates research to support the theory. Considers development more…

Provides an overview of the school library media specialist's role in working with the gifted student. The media specialist's extended role is also described in terms of the content, process, output, and evaluation sections of Tennant's model; and the knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation categories of Bloom's…

Responds to Caple's self-organization paradigm with interest in methods of promoting student growth and maturity. Finds use of a continuum with developmental and self-organization theories at opposite ends unnecessary, believing that growth takes place in a state of equilibrium or disequilibrium. Considers closed systems theory, as well as Caple's…

Reviews strengths and weaknesses of value-added model of outcomes assessment in higher education. Explores important measurement issues that student development specialists who are currently involved in assessment may confront. Makes recommendations for researchers choosing the value-added outcomes assessment model. (NB)

This introduction to a special section of articles on talent development in gifted education presents the Purdue Pyramid, a model of talent development with acceptance as a human being on the base, a variety of educational experiences ascending the pyramid, and self-understanding and commitment to self-development at the top. (DB)

This chapter examines the relationship between education, educational technology, and instructional development. The Universe of Learning model and the China Syndrome (i.e., the tendency to see oneself, one's activities, or one's interests as being at the center of things) are discussed in relation to student development, faculty development,…

Responds to Caple's self-organization paradigm of student development, where humans are viewed as open systems, unstable because of continuous exchange of energy with their environments. Corroborates the inevitability of disequilibrium in human existence but is disturbed by the notion of random determination of second-order change. Raises…

Discusses several problems confronting education in the United States, argues that music educators are among the most guilty of avoiding and even discouraging creative thinking. Presents a model of creative thinking in music and examines the conditions of motivation and environment that are important for child development. (GEA)

With a knowledge of students' thinking processes, activities advisers and leaders can design environments for maximum learning and development. An interpretation of Perry's model of intellectual and ethical development is provided. (MLW)