Challenging Highly Gifted Learners by Barbara Gilman

Challenging Highly Gifted Learners by Barbara Gilman

Challenging Highly Gifted Learners focuses on many of the issues involved in assessing and challenging highly gifted learners. A thorough discussion of the ceiling problems encountered on common assessments is included, as well as strategies for teachers and parents in planning appropriate education.

Barbara (Bobbie) Gilman is associate director of the nonprofit Gifted Development Center, which specializes in assessment and support of giftedness through the life cycle. She supervises testing, participates in research, is a popular speaker for parents and teachers on advocacy and classroom accommodations for the gifted, and consults with parents worldwide. Bobbie specializes in work with the highly, exceptionally, and profoundly gifted children and gifted children with learning disabilities, ADHD, or underachievement issues. She holds degrees in child development and psychology, and has extensive experience testing gifted children and making educational recommendations for them.

A mother of highly gifted sons, she is a veteran of gifted committees and helped create an accelerated charter middle school. Since the release of her award-winning book, Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works, she has devoted considerable time to school advocacy consultation, helping parents to document the unique instructional needs of their gifted student, find curricular options that meet the child's needs, and plan accommodations with school personnel.

Frances A. Karnes is professor of curriculum, instruction, and special education at The University of Southern Mississippi. She is widely known for her teaching, research, publications, innovative program developments, and service activities in gifted education and leadership training.

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ISBN 13	9781593633202
ISBN 10	1593633203
Title	Challenging Highly Gifted Learners
Author	Barbara Gilman
Series	The Practical Strategies Series In Gifted Education
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Inc
Year published	2008-03-31
Number of pages	49
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