Your Passport to Gifted Education
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This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced. The reader becomes engaged in the analogy of a three part airplane journey to the world of gifted education: ‘Embarking on a Journey;’ ‘Preparing for Departure’ and ‘Planning for Arrival.’ The author offers insightful case studies followed by strategies for both teachers and parents gained from personal experiences and research to identify and work with different types of children who present unique challenges due to their special needs of high potential.
By presenting a historical overview in gifted education from a global perspective, Your Passport to Gifted Education provides current internationally-researched information to clarify what is meant by ‘giftedness’ according to various cultures. The book encourages the development of a growth mindset in the reader to seek to identify various characteristics of high ability in all children.
Four international high ability identification models are introduced, including one relatively new to North America, the High Performance Learning Framework (HPL), currently used throughout China, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. Dispelling the myth that gifted children do not need our help, the reader gains insight into the uniquely different types of gifted individuals.
The book concludes by awarding the reader with a ‘Landing Card’ to serve as a bookmarker that underpins the best teaching practices in gifted education. A directory list of websites for international gifted organizations is also included to offer additional resources for those who want to continue their journey as advocates and learn how other countries support gifted children around the world.
This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced. The reader becomes engaged in the analogy of a three part airplane journey to the world of gifted education: ‘Embarking on a Journey;’ ‘Preparing for Departure’ and ‘Planning for Arrival.’ The author offers insightful case studies followed by strategies for both teachers and parents gained from personal experiences and research to identify and work with different types of children who present unique challenges due to their special needs of high potential.
By presenting a historical overview in gifted education from a global perspective, Your Passport to Gifted Education provides current internationally-researched information to clarify what is meant by ‘giftedness’ according to various cultures. The book encourages the development of a growth mindset in the reader to seek to identify various characteristics of high ability in all children.
Four international high ability identification models are introduced, including one relatively new to North America, the High Performance Learning Framework (HPL), currently used throughout China, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. Dispelling the myth that gifted children do not need our help, the reader gains insight into the uniquely different types of gifted individuals.
The book concludes by awarding the reader with a ‘Landing Card’ to serve as a bookmarker that underpins the best teaching practices in gifted education. A directory list of websites for international gifted organizations is also included to offer additional resources for those who want to continue their journey as advocates and learn how other countries support gifted children around the world.
Provides a global perspective of giftedness in education Offers an user-friendly and comprehensive guide for both new and veteran teachers, as well as homeschool parents Offers both theoretical and practical knowledge, including four international identification models Nurtures the creativity of teachers by offering case studies and strategies for understanding and working with all different types of gifted children Including best practices in gifted education to benefit all children in the classroom, while targeting the gifted Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Monita Leavitt
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Gifted education High ability in education Special needs in education Twice exceptional education the Eyre Equation Teacher education in gifted education Challenging and motivating gifted learners High ability learners Inclusive education
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“The book is a guide to helping everyone involved in the life of a gifted child to better understand his potential and to the need for intervention, and to becoming advocates of developmentally-advanced individuals. It certainly has an educational effect as it offers, describes, and advises more effective methods and models of working with gifted children. This book is certainly recommended to all those who are entering the world of the gifted for the very first time … .” (Jasna Arrigoni and Maruška Željeznov Seničar, International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity IJTDC, Vol. 5 (1– 2), August – December, 2017)
“Busy teachers need an easy-to-read, comprehensive overview of gifted education, and Leavitt has provided it! Her book, Your Passport to Gifted Education, covers all the important topics using an effective analogy about plane travel. … This book will make a great resource for new and experienced teachers who want to meet the needs of alltheir students.” (Anne M. Beninghof, Amazon.com, December, 2017)
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“Your Passport to Gifted Education is impacted with a depth and breadth of applied, practical and theoretical resources presented from the perspective of the author’s firsthand experience as an international gifted education educator. Chapter by chapter the author accompanies her readers on the gifted education journey as she presents data, research, analyses and findings many will never bother to question or envision as relevant, to their lives as parents or educators of gifted children, specifically. The book’s layout is indeed demonstrative of a body of fundamental knowledge needed as an entrance to and an embrace of an achievement journey; and finally, embodies a natural progression to recognizing and addressing the needs of gifted and high ability learners as universal.” (Joy M. Scott-Carrol, PhD., International Gifted Education Teacher Development Network, LLC)
“Leavitt's journey preparation metaphor for anyone who is in the process of learning gifted education is a fitting one. There is a lot of preparation work that goes into being fully equipped for the journey of educating or providing services for the gifted. And in that preparation work, there can be quite some confusion, due to, as Leavitt points out, cultural differences between and misunderstandings about what giftedness is and means in the first place. Leavitt does a very nice job at showing the lay of the land in this respect, and providing the first crucial steps for moving forward in spite of a lack of consensus across theories and cultures. Readers will find that they feel more equipped to take action, and will be able to discern what comes next for them in their own "giftedness education journey" preparation.” (Jennifer Harvey Sallin, Founder and Couch, Intergifted)
“In one slim book Monita Leavitt has compiled much of the research and some wonderful stories into ten chapters using travel as a metaphor for exploring giftedness. Monita thoroughly addresses some ofmy most frequently asked questions from parents: With enough enrichment, could any child become gifted? Isn’t the child’s capacity really just about parenting? How can I help my gifted child be more motivated and fit in socially? Parents and teachers alike will appreciate this book for all it offers. Teachers will find the guidelines on effective intervention strategies helpful to meet the educational needs of gifted and twice-exceptional students. Parents will find recommendations in every chapter to support the educational, enrichment, organization, social lives and emotional well-being of their children. I recommend Monita’s book for those seeking ways to work effectively with gifted children and those who love and care about them.” (Marté J. Matthews, MA, MFT 45249, Child & Family Counseling Group)
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