Developing Creative Leadership

Part of the Gifted Treasury Series, Developing Creative Leadership provides an overview of leadership in the crucial grades of 6-12. Drawing upon theories based on cognitive and affective leadership, and the role of leadership in gifted education, leadership is discussed as it pertains to research projects, problem solving, interpersonal communication, and decision-making. Strategies are provided for curriculum planning in the first half of the book in preparation for the second half, which presents practical units for developing leadership. Suggestions are made for developing programs around the Leadership Training Model (LTM), a comprehensive model on which gifted programs can be based.

The authors provide an overview of leadership in the crucial grades of 6-12. Drawing upon theories based on cognitive leadership, affective leadership, and the role of leadership in gifted education, leadership is discussed as it pertains to research projects, problem solving, interpersonal communication, and decision-making.

Jeanette Plauche Parker is Professor of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. After several years of teaching gifted children, she earned her doctorate in Education of the Gifted from the University of Georgia, where she studied under Dr. E. Paul Torrance.

Lucy G. Begnaud received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1999. She received her Bachelors Degree in Special Education, her Masters Degree in Reading, and her specialist degree in Gifted Education from USL. She was an elementary teacher for 19 years.