Systems And Models For Developing Programs For The Gifted And Talented

Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented

Now completely revised and expanded, Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented includes chapters on the major systems and models for developing programs for the gifted, including the Autonomous Learner Model, the Integrative Education Model, the Multiple Menu Model, the Purdue Three-Stage Model, the Schoolwide Enrichment Model, and Levels of Service. Forty-two experts in gifted education contributed to 25 chapters, and each chapter includes a discussion of the model, theoretical underpinnings, research on effectiveness, and considerations for implementations. Discussion questions follow each chapter. Chapters provide compact, yet comprehensive summaries of the major models developed by leaders in the field of gifted education.

Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented

For the first time the authors of the major systems and models for developing programs for gifted and talented youth have collaborated on a book that is destined to be one of the classics in the field. The primary objective of this book is to encourage a more critical understanding and sounder utilization of the principles and practical procedures set forth in model that are supposed to develop the gifted and talented. Each chapter provides a compact yet comprehensive summary of the major models written by the persons who originated them.

Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented