There and Back Again
If you are reading this, you know that gifted kids have the same needs for understanding, love, equity, and advocacy as any other child with a learning difference.
If you are reading this, you know that gifted kids have the same needs for understanding, love, equity, and advocacy as any other child with a learning difference.
The identification of gifted and talented students is interconnected with the conception of giftedness and program services. Exploring these relationships from the past is important in examining the future of identification and its critical attributes.
This article discusses the invaluable need to focus on equity and how culture matters in all aspects of GATE recruitment and retention efforts beginning in early childhood—identification and assessment, social-emotional and psychological needs and development, and curriculum and instruction.
It is timely to consider another critical issue that has impacted the health of our educational institutions. It is the issue of the lack of provision of differentiated curriculum for our top learners.
Focusing on product assessment, this article highlights the DAP Tool (i.e., the Developing and Assessing Product Tool) as a protocol for assessing products.
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