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This leading introduction to gifted and talented children retains proven parts of its original structure and combines it with the knowledge and best practices from a variety of sources. It incorporates knowledge from many disciplines and integrates best practices from classrooms to inform readers of how to work with children who grow up gifted and bring their gifts to the world. The author encourages readers to understand intelligence in order to help more children realize their unique potential of gifts and talents. The new edition will also feature more information for general education teachers on how to work with gifted and talented students in inclusive environments by offering more strategies and activities that educators can utilize in the classroom as well as in home-based settings. Throughout, the author incorporates knowledge from many disciplines, a wide range of research, best practices available for nurturing giftedness in the classroom, assessment and evaluation for the success of the student and the program, and a structure that gives a step-by-step approach to using these skills in the classroom and at home. Readers will begin to understand intelligence in order to help more children realize their unique potential of gifts and talents. Overall, readers will enjoy a text that is readable, uncovers some exciting new ideas and strategies, and makes every teacher at home and at school a knowledgeable partner in the process of children growing up gifted. For teachers of gifted and talented students.

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a must-buy book	Customer Rating:
This is one of the important books of gifted education that teachers and researchers must buy.

Only When Required	Customer Rating:
At $100.00 this book demonstrated what it really means to be gifted: get your average textbook to be required in education courses needed by public school teachers and charge as much as you can for it. No way should this book cost what it does. It is not bad, but the price is ridiculous. Enough said.

Best book on gifted education	Customer Rating:
This book is an invaluable resource to both parents and teachers

Among the best books on early education

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This is not the "XXX for the Dummies" type of book. This book is a textbook for college classes. It has theories and cites primary research data. If you do not like reading demanding textbooks for college students, this book is not for you, considering its high price. It not only suggests you what to do, but also explains the reason behind it. You need to read it carefully and critically. There are an overwhelming number of books on this subject that you probably won't read them all, and frankly the vast majority of them are just not worth reading. This one is clearly worth reading and your child will benefit invaluably, if you spend serious time on this book, no matter your child is gifted or not.

This is THE book on the subject

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I suspect this is mainly used as a textbook for teachers or counselors and the like...but I bouoght it as a parent and I highly recommend this book. I first saw a 1985 edition on our library shelves, read it and got so much useful information from it I took a chance on the newer version. I was not disappointed. I have quoted and used this book at length in trying to educate the teachers and other staff involved in my son's education. I showed or told them what she wrote and quoted her, which lent some authority to my assertions. She helped explain why my son is the way he is, in so many of his complexities. At last I understood why he reacts to things in such puzzling ways! There might be other books on gifted kids out there, but I'm not sure they could beat her patient, highly educated, helpful tone. Take notes as you go, there'll be a lot of things you'll want to find later to share with others interested in the same issues. Such as, one of the most important keys in finding an effective teacher for any student is the teacher's own self-image. Or, there IS a model of education that is shown to be effective for all levels of intelligence at once--the hands-on or whole topic curriculum (also called project-based). Or that the level of intelligence we now call gifted IS possible for all people to reach, if only they were raised in the "right" way--and that it is largely learned, not inherited. Or that teachers are a fairly poor identifier of the gifted kids; other kids are better at it! These are my recollections only--but just as a sample of the kinds of things she says. There's so much there you'll probably need to skip the parts that don't apply, or read more than once.