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Corwith, Susan – Parenting for High Potential, 2019
Providing an optimal match in the pace of instruction and level of content increases student engagement and is essential for all students. And while the idea of optimal match makes sense educationally, it can be challenging to determine what pace and level of instruction is optimal for gifted students. Fortunately, there is an effective,…
Descriptors: Talent, Talent Development, Acceleration (Education), Gifted
Peters, Scott J.; Carter, James; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In the 21st century, what does a defensible, equitable model of gifted and talented student identification look like? For too long, gifted education's reason for being has been unclear, and the students it has served have been from too narrow a segment of the student population. With renewed attention to equity and personalized learning, gifted…
Descriptors: Identification, Gifted, Models, Equal Education
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Reis, Sally M.; Peters, Pamela M. – Gifted Education International, 2021
The process of talent development with children and young adults who have participated in programs based on the Enrichment Triad and the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) has been the focus of research by Renzulli and Reis, as well as other scholars and colleagues, for over four decades. Periodic summaries of this extensive research have been…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Enrichment, Talent Development, Educational Research
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McBee, Matthew T.; McCoach, D. Betsy; Peters, Scott J.; Matthews, Michael S. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2012
Lack of theoretical coherence in the field of gifted education has given rise to multiple attempts at a grand unification, including most recently the work of Subotnik, Olszewski-Kubilius, and Worrell (2011). The authors argue that the incoherence is an inevitable consequence of the fundamental incompatibility of theoretical and definitional…
Descriptors: Gifted, Psychologists, Psychology, Group Unity
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Wellisch, Mimi; Brown, Jac – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2012
Gifted children who do not achieve often have problems with motivation and socioemotional adjustment and may also have learning disabilities. This article examines factors such as attachment difficulties and maternal depression as these may contribute to underachievement. The article reviews past and current practices of gifted identification and…
Descriptors: Gifted, Underachievement, Gifted Disadvantaged, Gifted Disabled
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Assouline, Susan G.; Lupkowski-Shoplik, Ann – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
The Talent Search model, founded at Johns Hopkins University by Dr. Julian C. Stanley, is fundamentally an above-level testing program. This simplistic description belies the enduring impact that the Talent Search model has had on the lives of hundreds of thousands of gifted students as well as their parents and teachers. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Talent
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Pfeiffer, Steven I. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
Contemporary thinking challenges the view that giftedness and high IQ are synonymous. Contemporary thinking also challenges the view that being gifted is something real. A number of authorities in the gifted field advocate a paradigm shift; moving away from emphasizing categorical definitions of giftedness and adopting a talent development…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Identification, Talent Development, Intelligence Quotient
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Seedorf, Stephen – Gifted Child Today, 2014
There is a discrepancy currently in public schools when comparing the identification and instruction of underachieving students with gifted and talented (GT) students. A three-tiered identification and instructional model was developed out of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) with emphasis coming from the No Child…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Gifted, Talent, Teaching Methods
Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Clarenbach, Jane – National Association for Gifted Children (NJ1), 2012
This report takes a comprehensive look at achievement for low-income promising learners--past, present, and future. At its core, it challenges the nation to move beyond its near-singular focus of achieving minimum performance for all students, to identifying and developing the talent of all students who are capable of high achievement, including…
Descriptors: Gifted, Academic Achievement, Evidence, Program Effectiveness
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Sternberg, Robert J. – School Psychology International, 2010
This article presents a unified model for cognitive processing, WICS, which is an acronym for wisdom, intelligence, and creativity, synthesized. The model can be applied to identification/admissions, diagnosis, instruction, and assessment. I discuss why there is a need for such a model. Then I describe traditional models, after which I describe…
Descriptors: Identification, School Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Models
Genco, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The federal government has been making strides to make the term "appropriate" an inclusive term that recognizes and addresses the special learning needs of all students. In an effort to appropriately educate students who have been identified as "gifted," the New Jersey State Board of Education readopted Standards and Assessment…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Academic Achievement, Federal Government
Fisher-Doiron, Norma; Irvine, Susan – Principal, 2009
In collaboration with the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut, and with the guidance of its directors, Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis, the Southeast Elementary School in Mansfield, Connecticut, has implemented the schoolwide enrichment model (SEM), a program designed to enhance learning and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Enrichment, Models, Educational Environment
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Levy, Jacob J.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Journal of School Counseling, 2008
This paper introduces a model of multicultural competence targeted at school counselors who work or may work with gifted and talented children. The model is designed as an extension of the Multicultural Counseling Competence framework (Sue, D. W., 2001). The present model outlines three competencies believed to be important to efficacious…
Descriptors: Gifted, Talent, School Counselors, Cultural Awareness
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Schlichter, Carol L. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1977
Available from: Love Publishing Company, 6635 East Villanova Place, Denver, Colorado 80222. The case of an academically gifted boy is presented, the term gifted is defined, and methods for identifying and educating gifted and talented students are considered. (SBH)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Case Studies, Conceptual Schemes, Definitions
Heller, Kurt A., Ed.; Feldhusen, John F., Ed. – 1986
The volume consists of papers from the 1985 symposium "Identification of the Gifted" at the Sixth World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children in Hamburg (Federal Republic of Germany). Twelve chapters have the following titles and authors: (1) "Introduction" (J. F. Feldhusen and K. A. Heller); (2) "A Conception of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anorexia Nervosa, Classification, Counseling Services
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