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This ground-breaking textbook is designed to help education professionals interested in building effective and comprehensive educational opportunities for gifted secondary students. This book offers an in-depth, research-based look at ways schools and classrooms can support the development of gifted adolescents. The Handbook of Secondary Gifted Education is the most comprehensive critical resource on this topic available. Topics include understanding the gifted adolescent, social/emotional issues, adolescent issues, best practices for curriculum and instruction and programming options (both school-wide and in specific subject areas), teacher education, and professional development. The purpose of the book is to provide a research-based handbook that views gifted adolescents and their needs as the starting point for building an effective, integrated educational program. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)

What do children need? They need understanding and support to help ensure they live safe, healthy, happy, and productive lives. Educators and health care professionals can help prevent many of the common social, emotional, and academic problems faced by children and schools. As shown throughout this volume, a wealth of research exists to guide practitioners in the selection, development, and implementation of effective school-based prevention programs. Unfortunately, far too many problems are not prevented, and intervention is necessary. To intervene effectively, practitioners must understand evidence-based and practical techniques, strategies, and programs for intervention. Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter in Children's Needs III offers proven interventions and recommended resources for further information. The book's 81 chapters are organized into four sections: (I) Children's Social and Emotional Needs; (II) Children's Academic Needs; (III) Children's Family-Related Needs; and (IV) Children's Health-Related Needs. Children's Needs III provides an authoritative resource that health care providers and educators can use every day in meeting the social, emotional, academic, family, and health needs of all children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)

Students who are gifted and/or talented are known more for their contributions and potential contributions than any other group of students. Meeting the educational needs of these students, however, can be a tremendous challenge for those who teach them. In Teaching Students With Gifts and Talents, Bob Algozzine and Jim Ysseldyke offer educators helpful information for identifying gifted and talented students, and present effective instructional approaches--enrichment and acceleration--to ensure that these exceptional students are constantly challenged and engaged. Highlights include: (1) a pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of giftedness and how the needs of gifted and talented students are best addressed; (2) cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with high-ability learners; (3) effective instructional approaches and activities to keep gifted and talented students motivated and reaching ever-higher levels of achievement; and (4) key vocabulary terms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)

This book shows, in detail and with concrete examples, how educational theory and research can be translated into practice. Well-known researchers who have worked to establish productive sustainable connections between the knowledge produced by the research community and the practices employed in school settings provide descriptions of successful strategies that have been used to bridge the gap among theory, research, and practice. The volume addresses three main themes: (1) Analysis of how educational theory and research may be used to improve student learning and achievement in mathematics, science, and reading; (2) Examination of how educational theory and research has been used to conceptualize, implement, and evaluate the effects of challenges of large-scale reform; and (3) Exploration of how different models of intelligence and creativity have informed educational practice. Viewed as a collective effort to translate theory and research into educational practice, the interventions and programs described by the contributors to this volume represent nearly 200 years of work. As a compendium of successful strategies, this book will help other identify ways to make their own research more useful to their practice communities. As an investigation of persistent, seemingly intractable problems encountered when attempting to connect theory and research to the everyday work of teachers and students in classrooms, the analyses presented in this volume demonstrate where additional work is needed. By examining critical, persistent challenges encountered when attempting to connect educational theory and research to the everyday work of teachers in classrooms and schools, this book will help improve the practical value of educational research and help chart the course of future research. Translating Theory and Research Into Educational Practice is intended as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses across the discipline of education and should be particularly relevant for classes dealing with educational research, educational policy, and teaching and learning. This book is equally relevant for various communities interested in improving connections between research and practice, including educational researchers, educational psychologists, psychologists, teachers, other educational professionals such as state school officers, district officials, and policy makers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)

How do musical skills develop in children? What factors inhibit their development? Why do we like certain music during childhood and adolescence? Can music affect the development of other cognitive abilities in children, and how? These are just some of the questions considered in this new work. The Child as Musician is an authoritative and comprehensive handbook of musical development from conception to late adolescence. In 24 chapters by leading specialists, it celebrates the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music. The chapters have been organized into five sections: The first section (Development) examines the critical months and years from conception to the end of infancy. It looks at how the musical brain develops, ways of understanding musical development, and the nature of musicality. Section two (Engagement) scrutinizes claims about the non-musical benefit of exposure to music, for example that music makes you smarter. This is followed by four thorough reviews dealing with musical preference and taste, literacy, aesthetic identity and the perception of emotion in music. Section three (Differences) focuses on those issues that help explain and identify individual differences. It includes chapter examining how children develop their motivation to study music, conceptions of giftedness and talent, and two chapters on children with disabilities. Section four covers skills that can develop as a result of exposure to music. It considers the informal activities associated with musical play and the use of computers and technology. There are also chapters dealing with the acquisition of vocal and instrumental skills, as well as the individual and social worlds of children's musical creativity. The final section of the book discusses five different contexts: the chapter on historical perspectives provides readers with information that will assist them in making comparisons between how children have learned and developed their musical capacities in the past, with current opportunities. This is extended by two additional chapters that focus on children's involvement in music in non-western cultures. The book concludes with two chapters focusing on youth musical engagement and the transition from child to adult. Truly a landmark publication in music education and music psychology, this is a book that will fascinate both students and researchers--inspiring them to think deeply about the many different ways in which music can affect children's lives and the quality of life in communities throughout the world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)