Gifted education

assessments to identify gifted students. The NAGC believes there are certain things that are very important to identifying gifted and talented learners. They say their needs to be defensible measurement practices, and the test needs to be administered by people with the appropriate training. There has been a big push of assessments being different for those students who are under represented. The article says, “NAGC believes that assessments selected for use in the identification of gifted…

music time. Both teachers have overhead projectors, in which they use to show the students how to manage the assignments. They also use the overhead projectors to play movies on. The technology applied in both classrooms is great for the students’ educations, and the children enjoy being able to utilize computers and tablets. Also, the technology in both teacher’s classrooms makes for easier access because the students do not have to leave the classroom when they need a computer for…

school is located near a wide variety of access to transportation and has limited direct access to outside resources such as libraries. What are the special features of your placement? Most of the special features of the school focused on special education, enhancing students physical abilities, and STEM. The school offered after school programs for each and had teachers say afterschool to help run the club. Each club featured activities that enhanced student’s knowledge in the field and even…

or disdain towards the public school system (qtd. in Lebeda 99). However, there have been controversial debates over the legality of homeschooling. Some parents believe that homeschooling is more effective way of education which should continue to exist as an alternative to public education while others view homeschooling pessimistically and they have argued against the legality…

Since the introduction of CTE programs, the special needs education has grown immensely (Barry & Leather, 2012). There has been a diversification of career programs such as information technology, biotechnology, hospitality, engineering among others, giving the students an opportunity to join different fields of expertise (Barry & Leather, 2012). As a substitute teacher, one of the challenges special education face is the equality of resources in CTE teaching and learning. One of the…

specific example of my growth and breaking out of my own encapsulation was when discussing culturally diverse students in special education. While possessing a background working with special education students and now currently serving as an administrator in an alternative education…

Gifted Hands Book Review Growing up in the poor streets of Detroit, Dr. Ben Carson could have never dreamed of the life that he had to look forward to in the future. When Ben was nine years old, his father abandoned him and his family. Ben’s mother, Sonya was the motivator in her two sons’ lives. Although Sonya only had a third-grade education, she was a very smart woman, who knew that education was the way for her sons to get out of the ghetto and have successful lives. Sonya had strict rules…

master’s degree in special education and worked as an overseer of thirteen public school special education programs, the enormous challenge of teaching her own special needs children became a task that no formal education or previous practice had prepared her for handling. Yet, through days and years of personal study and learning with her precious children, Swope gained extensive insights into how to best teach her children. In Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child, Cheryl Swope…

Hayworth, William Life is not about where you started I began to know hardship at a very early age of 2 months; I was removed from my family and placed into foster care. My dad divorced my mom shortly after I was born and never looked back. I spent the next 15 years moving between foster homes. I became a bitter and rebellious child. I was kicked out of all the middle schools in my local school district in Detroit Michigan and placed in a mental hospital. I was mad at the world and felt…

Children with Special Education How many of you really know what it’s like to handle a child with special needs? Most of you aren’t able to answer it’s difficult it requires strength, patients, a high tolerance level heir are many people who have worked with children with special needs have been bitten , hit and things thrown at them. It takes a lot of patience and respect for someone to handle those situations. Because children with special need’s tend to be very strong and teachers have to be…