Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Students

This book gives you the "nuts and bolts" needed to design and implement a gifted program to maximize the benefits to students, teachers, schools, and parents.

Twelve researchers and practitioners from the U.S., the Netherlands, and Brazil present the basic elements and operating principles that make gifted programs effective, creative, and continuous. Individual chapters examine specific gifted programs within school systems—operated by school administration and funded by the district—and programs outside schools systems, often funded by universities or institutes. For teachers and administrators working within school systems, as well as independent groups outside a school district. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Joan Franklin Smutny is founder and director of the Center for Gifted at National-Louis University and a winner of the NAGC Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the field of education. She directs programs for gifted children and teaches courses on gifted education for graduate students. She is editor of the Gifted Children Journal, contributing editor of Understanding Our Gifted and the Roeper Review for gifted education professionals, and a feature writer for the Gifted Education Communicator. She has authored Differentiating for the Young Child (Corwin Press 2004) and Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Children (Corwin Press 2003). Other credits include Underserved Gifted Populations (2003); Differentiated Instruction (2003), Gifted Education (2003), and Stand Up for Your Gifted Child (2001).