Artistically and Musically Talented Students (Essential Readings in Gifted Education Series)
Publisher: Corwin Press, March 6, 2004.
Edition: First
Book Condition: New
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 141290434X / 9781412904346
The expert guide to the identification and support of artistically and musically talented students!
Is artistic talent nature or nurture? What are the best methods for identifying artistic potential? How can educators and parents encourage and support artistic development? From identification to empowering teachers of talented arts students, the readings in Artistically and Musically Talented Students offer best practices from leaders in the field.
Key features include:
- A practical look at the needs of artistically and musically talented students by field leader Enid Zimmerman, and her recommendations for future study
- Methods for recognizing potential talent in dance, art, and music
- Eight articles from the most influential researchers of giftedness and the arts
The ERGE Series:
The National Association for Gifted Children series Essential Readings in Gifted Education is a 12-volume collection of seminal articles from Gifted Child Quarterly. Put the knowledge and power of more than 25 years of research on giftedness and talent in your hands with leading theories, studies, and findings from experts in the field.
Major themes include nature versus nurture in arts talent development, teacher empowerment, and collaboration with community members.About the Author
Sally M. Reis is a professor and the department head of the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Connecticut, where she also serves as principal investigator of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She taught for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students at the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She has authored more than 130 articles, 9 books, 40 book chapters, and numerous monographs and technical reports. Her research interests include special populations of gifted and talented students, including students with learning disabilities, gifted females, and diverse groups of talented students. She is also interested in extensions of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model for both gifted and talented students and as a way to expand offerings and provide general enrichment to identify talents and potentials in students who have not been previously identified as gifted. She has traveled extensively conducting workshops and providing professional development for school districts on gifted education, enrichment programs, and talent development programs. She is a co-author of The Schoolwide Enrichment Model, The Secondary Triad Model, Dilemmas in Talent Development in the Middle Years, and a book published in 1998 about women’s talent development titled Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females. Sally serves on several editorial boards, including the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past president of the National Association for Gifted Children.
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