Publisher's Synopsis
This comprehensive text by leaders in the field presents the best practices in gifted education.
After a brief overview of current issues in the field, Education of the Gifted and Talented discusses the characteristics of gifted students as well as challenges of parenting and the understanding and counseling of gifted children. The authors address crucial topics in the field, including strategies for identifying gifted students, considerations in planning a sound gifted and talented program, contemporary program models, problems of minority, disabled and female students, and the evaluation of gifted programs.
