TY - BOOK AU - Gosfield,Margaret Wayne ED - California Association for the Gifted. TI - Expert approaches to support gifted learners: professional perspectives, best practices, and positive solutions SN - 9781575422800 PY - 2008/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Free Spirit Pub. KW - Gifted children KW - Education KW - United States KW - Curriculum planning N1 - 'A collaboration with the California Association for the Gifted.'; Includes index; Book is a photocopy version; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Part 1: Understanding and Nurturing Gifted Learners -- Lessons from bright learners about affect / Carol Ann Tomlinson -- Reclaiming teaching as a helping profession: seven rules of counseling for classroom teachers / Meredith Greene -- Experiencing in a higher key: Dabrowski's theory of and for the gifted / Michael M. Piechowski -- No wonder they behave differently / Barbara Clark -- Comfortably numb: a new view of underachievement / Jim Delisle -- Squelching enthusiasm / Elaine S. Wiener -- Part 2: Making Gifted Education Work -- Stacking the blocks: the importance of program design / Barbara Clark -- Considerations in evaluating gifted programs / Joyce VanTassel-Baska -- Grouping the gifted: myths and realities / Karen B. Rogers -- Equity in gifted programs: how do we measure up? / Elinor Ruth Smith -- Interdisciplinarity ... support and concerns / Sandra N. Kaplan -- A differentiated rubric to guide teaching, learning, and assessment / Sandra N. Kaplan -- Drawing on the inventive mind: making verbal thinking visual and visual thinking verbal / Jon Pearson -- Responding to failure / Ann MacDonald and Jim Riley -- Infusing language arts curriculum with visual and performing arts for gifted students / Joan Franklin Smutny -- Think like a historian: sleuthing family history / James E. McAleney Jr. -- Identifying and developing technological giftedness: exploring another way to be gifted in the 21st century / Del Siegle -- The'spillover' effect: the power of gifted teaching strategies for an entire staff / Maryanna Gray ER -