Carol Ann Tomlinson

Differentiation for Gifted and Talented Students

Herausgeber: Reis, Sally M.; Tomlinson, Carol Ann

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the link between gifted education and general education, the articles in this volume reveal the benefits of differentiating curriculum and instruction, discuss impediments to the successful adoption of differentiation in classrooms and school districts, and show how educators can collaboratively overcome these obstacles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781412904308
• ISBN-10: 1412904307
• Artikelnr.: 22404178

Autorenporträt

Carol Ann Tomlinsons career as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher. She taught in high school, preschool, and middle school, and worked with heterogeneous classes as well as special classes for students identified as gifted and students with learning problems. Her public school career also included 12 years as a program administrator of special services for advanced and struggling learners. She was Virginias Teacher of the Year in 1974. She is Professor of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Polshy; icy at the University of Virginias Curry School of Education; a researcher for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented; a co-direcshy;tor of the University of Virginias Summer Institute on Academic Diversity; and President of the National Association for Gifted Children. Special interests throughshy;out her career have included curriculum and instruction for advanced learners and struggling learners, effective instruction in heterogeneous settings, and bridging the fields of general education and gifted education. She is author of over 100 articles, book chapters, books, and other professional development materials, including How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, Leadership for Differentiated Schools and Classrooms, the facilitators guide for the video staff development sets called Differentiating Instruction, and At Work in the Differentiated Classroom, as well as a professional inquiry kit on differentiation. She works throughout the United States and abroad with teachers whose goal is to develop more responsive heterogeneous classrooms.
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 was a teacher for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on 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 are related to special populations of gifted and tal-ented 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 profes-sional development for school districts on gifted education, enrichment programs, and talent development programs. She is 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 womens 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.