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Your Passport to Gifted Education
Monita Leavitt
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Description for Your Passport to Gifted Education
Paperback. Series: Springer Texts in Education. Num Pages: 132 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JMC; JN; JNMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced. The reader becomes engaged in the analogy of a three part airplane journey to the world of gifted education: `Embarking on a Journey;' `Preparing for Departure' and `Planning for Arrival.' The author offers insightful case studies followed by strategies for both teachers and parents gained from personal experiences and research to identify and work with different types of children who present unique challenges due to their ... Read more
This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced. The reader becomes engaged in the analogy of a three part airplane journey to the world of gifted education: `Embarking on a Journey;' `Preparing for Departure' and `Planning for Arrival.' The author offers insightful case studies followed by strategies for both teachers and parents gained from personal experiences and research to identify and work with different types of children who present unique challenges due to their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Springer Texts in Education
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319476377
SKU
V9783319476377
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About Monita Leavitt
Monita Leavitt, Ph.D., is an independent international Gifted Education Consultant who taught for over 35 years (25 in gifted education). Her Ph.D. was awarded from Oxford Brookes University in England for research on Giftedness Perceptions and Practices of Teachers in Lithuania (2009). Dr. Leavitt has provided lectures and staff development on giftedness in Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, ... Read more
Reviews for Your Passport to Gifted Education
The book is a guide to helping everyone involved in the life of a gifted child to better understand his potential and to the need for intervention, and to becoming advocates of developmentally-advanced individuals. It certainly has an educational effect as it offers, describes, and advises more effective methods and models of working with gifted children. This book is certainly ... Read more