Designing Gifted Education Programs and Services
Subtitle
From Purpose to Implementation
This book offers guidance to administrators, teachers and coordinators in designing and implementing quality and defensible gifted programs. It provides questions to follow that lead the user to a defensible and effective program that is inclusive. If you are engaged in a program review this text will provide a lens to examine what you currently offer in your program but guide you to think about how to improve your current program. In the initial chapters the authors explore the complexities of student identification. Reminding the reader to employ multiple measures in identification guides the practitioner to embrace universal screening to reach across all populations within the district. The authors include critical questions throughout the text to guide the reader as he or she grows the program from an idea to reality. The final section of the text explores the insights, successes and challenges shared from coordinators in practice, working in small and large schools districts. Their insights might serve the reader in their own journey.
Bio
Dina Brulles is the director of gifted education at Paradise Valley Unified School District and the gifted program coordinator at ASU. Brulles serves on the National Association for Gifted Children Board of Directors as the school district representative. Brulles was a recipient of the 2014 NAGC Gifted Coordinator Award and also NAGC Professional Development Network Award in 2013.
Praise for this book
This must-have book provides a fresh, up-to-date look at gifted education. Peters and Brulles guide the reader through identification recommendatios and programmig opportuities for advanced learners while always keeping the needs of students first.
Mary Cay Ricci, author of "Mindsets in the Classroom"
