Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom: Indentifying, Nurturing, and Challenging Ages 4–9 - Softcover

Smutny M.A., Joan Franklin; Walker Ph.D., Sally Yahnke; Meckstroth M.Ed., Elizabeth A.

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9781575423272: Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom: Indentifying, Nurturing, and Challenging Ages 4–9

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575423278 ISBN 13: 9781575423272

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing, 1997

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Proven, practical ways to recognize and nurture young gifted children as early as age four and create a learning environment that supports all students. Helps you teach to multiple intelligences, and compact and expand the curriculum. Digital content has customizable forms from the book.

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About the Author:

Joan Franklin Smutny is the Director of the Center for Gifted at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois.

Sally Yahnke Walker, Ph.D., is a consultant, an educator, an advocate for gifted children, and the Executive Director for the Illinois Association for Gifted Children. She has piloted programs to create a broad-based level of support for talented students in public school districts, provided in-service training for teachers, and facilitated workshops for parents of gifted children.

Elizabeth A. Meckstroth, M.Ed., M.S.W., is the Coordinator of the Gifted Resource Center in Evanston, and has counseled families of gifted children for over 15 years.

Review:

"A highly readable and comprehensive book for identifying and educating the younger children among the gifted. We highly recommend it to all teachers and parents who want to give the best possible education to their gifted children in the preschool and primary grades." —Gifted Education News-Page

"Indispensable...eminently practical. This book is a gem." —California Association for the Gifted

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