Teach to Develop Talent: How to Motivate and Engage Tomorrow's Innovators Today - Softcover

Paynter, Jeanne L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1071812556 ISBN 13: 9781071812556

Publisher: Corwin, 2021

Synopsis

Nurture the talents of all learners

Are you cultivating the real-world creative problem-solving skills today’s diverse learners need for future success? Or have we leaned so far into test preparation that we’ve left no room for developing our students’ unique talents, leaving them disengaged and unmotivated?

With the new brain-based Talent-Targeted Teaching and Learning model described in this book, you can focus instead on developing all students’ metacognitive, creative problem-solving, and leadership skills alongside the required content standards. Teach to Develop Talent applies the psychology of motivation, engagement, and achievement to practical, culturally responsive strategies educators can use to equitably identify and develop students’ cognitive and social-emotional skills, including curiosity, creativity, perseverance, reasoning, persistence, empathy, and more.

With this book, you can:

• Identify and develop all learners’ aptitudes for innovation in STEM and humanities
  
• Transform any curriculum or standards into long-term aims for talent development
  
• Support and assess student progress with dozens of customizable checklists, templates, rubrics, and surveys
  
• Challenge and engage all learners, especially diverse gifted students

Ideal for implementation in virtual or traditional learning environments, you will ensure your students’ long-range and multi-faceted success with this hands-on guide.

About this title

About the Author

Jeanne L. Paynter, Ed.D. currently works as an educational consultant and faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the founder and Executive Director of Educating Innovators, which partners with schools to implement unique teaching and learning approaches to engage and challenge all learners, including those who are academically advanced or gifted and talented. Previously she served on the faculty of McDaniel College, Maryland where she taught graduate courses in curriculum and gifted education.

Jeanne has had wide variety of experiences in K-12 public education that have shaped her interest in talent development, leading to the design of a new approach that brings gifted pedagogy to all, talent-targeted teaching and learning. Currently she serves as the President of the Maryland Coalition for Gifted and Talented Education (MCGATE).
As the state specialist for gifted and talented education at the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), Jeanne directed numerous grant projects to increase the participation and success of low income and minority students in PK-12 advanced programming.  Previous to her work at MSDE, she was the Coordinator for Gifted Education and Magnet Programs K – 12 in Baltimore County Public Schools, a large urban-suburban district. 

Jeanne’s personal passions are motivation, creativity, and talent development in K-12 education, and she has made numerous presentations on these topics to national and international audiences. In addition, she has authored award-winning research on the topic of intrinsic, extrinsic, and moral motivation. 

Jeanne earned her Master’s Degree in Gifted Education and Doctorate in Teacher Development and Leadership from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science degree in English from the Towson University. She resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1071812556
• ISBN 13: 9781071812556
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224