On Human Potential

Nurturing Talents and Cultivating Expertise

Sandra I. Kay

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781475842937
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Counseling

According to experts in educational measurement, current and past performance remains the best single predictor of future performance. This book seeks to maximize individual and institutional efforts to support students optimal development, specifically their talents. The Talent Record introduced a common language, cataloging, and recording levels of talent achieved thus far on a Talent Profile page. Communicating accomplishments in a common language across talent fields unites the ever-changing team of individuals associated with a child's development and advances meaningful educational practice.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Perspectives on Talent Development and Expertise
• 1 Measuring What Matters Most
• 2 Moving Beyond “A Pleasure to Have in Class”
• 3 Components of the Talent Record: Chronicling the Development of Expertise
• 4 Recognizing Emerging Expertise
• 5 A Look at Intellectual Aptitude (IA) Surfacing
• 6 A Look at Emerging Specific Academic (AC) Ability
• 7 Early Sightings of Creative/Productive (C) Ability
• 8 On Materializing Leadership (L)
• 9 A Closer Look at Visual/Performing Arts (AR) Abilities
• 10 Early Sightings of Psychomotor/Kinesthetic (PK) Abilities
• 11 So What?—The Synergy of Collaboration
• Appendix: Autobiographical Talent Records: Extrapolation Examples for Constructing Talent Record of Characteristics and Achievements from Autobiographical Sources
• References
• About the Author