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…

From a special section, "Talent Awareness Training.

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…

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…

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.…

Fifty-seven outstanding students, grades seven to nine, entered the first or second year of the Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Project. First year students earned credit for two years of high school algebra in one year; second year students earned high school credit for either transformational or traditional geometry and trigonometry.…

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…

The purpose of this book is to help parents and teachers recognize and understand dramatic play in childhood as a process whereby the child acts out human experience in an attempt to order, clarify, and understand it. Written by a person experienced in theatre and drama, the book considers the following aspects of dramatic play: the importance of…

This guide provides a set of qualitative and quantitative procedures and criteria for determining if a preschool handicapped child is talented in any of 6 areas: intellectual, academic, creative, leadership, visual and performing arts, and psychomotor. The guide developed by the RAPYHT project (a model program for Retrieval and Acceleration of…

THE SYLLABUS IS INTRODUCED BY A GENERAL STATEMENT ON GRAMMAR. GRAMMAR IS TREATED AS A SEPARATE UNIT IN GRADES 7 AND 8 AND IS REVIEWED AND INTERWOVEN WITH ADVANCED COMPOSITION IN GRADES 9-12. WRITTEN AND ORAL COMPOSITION ARE UNITS FOR GRADES 7 AND 8, WITH LITERATURE IN A SEPARATE UNIT FOR EACH OF GRADES 7-12. OUTLINES FOR PRESENTATION OF LITERATURE…

AN INTENSIVE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL WAS MADE TO SURVEY AVAILABLE TALENT, IDENTIFY INTERESTS, APTITUDES, AND BACKGROUND FACTORS, DETERMINE EFFECTS OF LACK OF INTEREST AND MOTIVATION, IDENTIFY FACTORS AFFECTING VOCATIONAL CHOICE, IDENTIFY PREDICTORS OF CREATIVITY AND PRODUCTIVITY, DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF…

TOPICS INCLUDE--LITHOSPHERE, THE SOLID PART OF EARTH, HYDROSPHERE, WATER ON EARTH, AND ATMOSPHERE, AIR. TEXTBOOK REFERENCES, CONTENT OUTLINE, TEACHING SUGGESTIONS, REFERENCE READINGS, AND AUDIOVISUAL AIDS ARE GIVEN UNDER EACH TOPIC. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT ORDER BE EMPHASIZED BY PROVIDING ASSIGNED SEATS, REQUIRING NEAT NOTEBOOKS, AND STRESSING THAT…

THE FIRST 6-WEEK UNIT CONCERNS ANIMAL LIFE, AND TOPICS INCLUDE PROTOZOA, INVERTEBRATES, AND VERTEBRATES. UNIT II, "THE HUMAN BODY", INCLUDES BODY SYSTEMS, HEALTH, AND SAFETY. TEXTBOOK REFERENCES, CONTENT OUTLINE, TEACHING SUGGESTIONS, REFERENCE READINGS, AND AUDIOVISUAL AIDS ARE GIVEN UNDER EACH TOPIC. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT FIRST…

The majority of this IME issue is devoted to reviews of recent research reports from the project for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University. An overview is provided of the book "Intellectual Talent: Research and Development", edited by Keating. Nine studies reported in the book are then abstracted…

Data from the Current Population Survey of 1971 are used in this paper to investigate the ways in which various population groups utilize their earnings capacity. The hypotheses tested in this paper are: (1) that groups are poor primarily because they fail to utilize their earnings potential effectively; and (2) that the high incidence of poverty…