Procedures are described for use in foreign language classes that tap the characteristics of gifted students. Each activity is directly associated with at least one of the cognitive characteristics attributed to the gifted, which are listed in the introductory section of the paper. The procedures include the following activities: conducting a…

Several articles in previous editions of "Teaching History" have touched on the themes of cross curricularity, Assessment for Learning and the most able. Tony McConnell and Mandy Monaghan bring these themes together in describing how the English and history departments in their school have taken advantage of a natural area of overlap to…

The booklet presents a number of alternative educational approaches for gifted and talented students. Five chapters cover the following topics: characteristics of the gifted; identification; program development information and resources for enrichment, grouping, acceleration, and guidance programs; teacher selection and training; and communication…

Characteristics of gifted children and identification procedures as well as educational provisions for gifted children in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia are discussed in this seminar paper. Ways to modify curricula and ways programs have been enriched for gifted students are pointed out. In the final section of the paper very…

The resource book is designed to help teachers and other school personnel use arts activities to mainstream handicapped and gifted students into the regular class curriculum. The first section contains guidelines for developing basic processing skills of perception, interpretation, understanding, expression, and evaluation. The second part of the…

Introductory science has become a discovery course for the students at Phillips Exeter Academy (New Hampshire), who are above average in ability and motivation. The philosophy of the course is that it should serve a more humanizing function than the preparation of young technicians, and that this function is as important for the future scientist…

In teaching courses on music at the secondary level, teachers should seek to broaden the horizons of beginners so that they may become more enlighted members of the audience world. Most formal courses in music at the secondary level are in the areas of music appreciation or harmony. Music appreciation usually begins with basic theory, with the…

The role of the counselor in a secondary school is discussed. The goal of psychotherapy is to reacquaint the student with the forgotten feelings and memories that have blocked growth in certain areas. By listening actively and empathetically, the counselor creates an atmosphere of trust that enables the student to talk freely. With the guidance of…

Part 8 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the development of materials and media. Three competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of providing direction in the development of teacher made instructional…

This publication, the second in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) professional reference series, is a collection of essays, each coauthored by a professional mathematics educator and a special education professional and directed to a particular exceptionality. The premise that the mathematical education of exceptional children…

A series of studies with learning disabled (LD) elementary grade students in eight schools investigated the relationship between class placement (regular class, part time regular class, or special class) and self concept. Ss were administered the Piers Harris Children's Self Concept Scale before and after placement changes. Results included the…

An Hispanic practitioner discusses the identification of both the non-English speaking and English speaking culturally different gifted child. Definitions are offered for nondiscriminatory assessment and giftedness. Four case studies illustrate the methods used to identify two English speaking and two nonEnglish speaking gifted Hispanic children.…

The report contains the proceedings of the Third Annual Northern Virginia Conference on Gifted/Talented Education. Titles and authors of papers presented include "Realizing Your Potential" (H. Lyon), "Developing the Gifts of All Children" (W. Barbe), "What is Leadership Training for the Gifted?" (D. Sisk), "Theoretic Foundations of Differential…

This paper, presented at the 1979 meeting of the American Educational Research Association, investigates the impact of programs for the mathematically gifted upon the course-taking and attitudes of gifted girls. The study is based on The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) of the Johns Hopkins University, initiated in 1971 to identify…

Investigated was the effect of format variables that describe mathematical word problems in relation to problem-solving difficulty. Changes made by sixth- and eighth-grade students when asked to rewrite problems in a more adequate or easily understandable format were analyzed. Thirty-five sixth and eighth graders enrolled in a Mentally Gifted…