Educating Gifted Students in Middle School: A Practical Guide.EDUCATING GIFTED STUDENTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL: A Practical Guide. Susan Rakow. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press, 2005. 251 pp. $24.95, Softcover. Susan Rakow, a visiting assistant professor in curriculum and gifted education Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. Programs providing such education are sometimes called Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) or at Cleveland State University Cleveland State University, at Cleveland, Ohio; coeducational; founded 1964, incorporating Fenn College (est. 1923). The Cleveland-Marshall School of law was incorporated in 1969. , has written a comprehensive, straightforward book about teaching gifted students in middle school. Middle school gifted students provide unique challenges to teachers, parents, and administrators. Rakow discusses social and emotional issues, academic and intellectual issues, and family and home relationships. Rakow also discusses the curriculum of the gifted child gifted child Child naturally endowed with a high degree of general mental ability or extraordinary ability in a specific domain. Although the designation of giftedness is largely a matter of administrative convenience, the best indications of giftedness are often those and offers several recommendations for gifted instructors to deal with No Child Left Behind. Furthermore, she provides the reader an idea of what the role of the teacher is as well as the challenges of the curriculum specialist. Rakow presents exceptional ideas for both new and experienced teachers, offering a variety of gifted models that are well-researched. Rakow suggests and explains in-depth: Socratic seminars, simulations, role-playing, problem-based learning problem-based learning Medical education An instruction strategy in which groups of students are presented with clinical problems without prior study or lectures. See Cooperative learning. , creative problem solving Creative problem solving is the mental process of creating a solution to a problem. It is a special form of problem solving in which the solution is independently created rather than learned with assistance. Creative problem solving requires more than just knowledge and thinking. , independent study, learning contracts, mastery learning Mastery Learning is an instructional method that presumes all children can learn if they are provided with the appropriate learning conditions. Specifically, mastery learning is a method whereby students are not advanced to a subsequent learning objective until they demonstrate , curriculum compacting, and differentiating instruction in the gifted classroom. In addition, Rakow devotes one chapter to special populations of gifted middle school students. Rakow also recommends several fiction and nonfiction books gifted children would appreciate. She suggests ways of selecting a variety of books to connect students with the literature and nonfiction. I found this informative book to be very helpful, and used many of her ideas after reading the material. Educating Gifted Students in Middle School focuses on the sensible, imaginative, and pragmatic school solutions that can create a fundamental and responsive school community for all students and teachers. Reviewed by Michele Mar, teacher of the gifted, and doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction at Barry University History Beginnings Barry University began as a result of by Patrick Barry's (Bishop of St. Augustine, FL) and Mother M. Gerald Barry's (Prioress General of the Dominican Sisters of Adrian) dream of establishing an institution of higher education, one in which , Miami Shores, FL |
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