Beyond Gifted Education

Designing and Implementing Advanced Academic Programs

Scott J. Peters, Michael S. Matthews, Matthew T. McBee, D. Betsy McCoach

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000490732
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Seeking a more comprehensive vision for gifted education, this book offers a modern vision of programs and services for gifted and talented students. Beyond Gifted Education: Designing and Implementing Advanced Academic Programs provides the first comprehensive look at designing and implementing advanced academic student programs.

Written by four leading experts in the field, Beyond Gifted Education reviews the current range of traditional gifted education practices and policies. Then, the book offers the concerned gifted program coordinator or school administrator a more expansive approach to educating gifted learners. The authors lead readers through the process of identifying needs, responding with programming, and then finding students who are well-suited for and would benefit from advanced academic programming. Detailed examples walk the reader through real-world scenarios and programs common to the gifted coordinator on topics such as cluster grouping, acceleration, and increasing diversity. Throughout the book, connections are made to Common Core State Standards, Response to Intervention, and a wealth of outside research in order to support ideas.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Identification for What?
• 3 The Process of Identifying Students in Need of Advanced Academic Programming
• 4 Total School Cluster Grouping Illustrative Example
• 5 Acceleration Illustrative Example
• 6 But What About Enrichment?
• 7 When Addressing Underrepresentation IS the Goal Illustrative Example
• 8 Common Pitfalls in Identification
• 9 An Introduction to Combining Multiple Measures
• 10 Conclusion
• References
• Appendix A NAGC Pre-K–Grade 12 Gifted Education Programming Standards
• Appendix B Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education: Prepared by the Joint Committee on Testing Practices
• Appendix C NAGC Position Statement: The Role of Assessments in the Identification of Gifted Students
• About the Authors