05:300:320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Gifted Education

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Education
• Course: 05:300:320
• Professor: L.Cortina

Document Summary

Topics covered: history of gifted education, conceptions/definitions of giftedness, characteristics/needs of gifted learners, mindset and motivation, special populations, creativity and giftedness. Identifying gifted learners: talented development in students, gifted adults and parenting gifted children. Expectations of course: each week the module includes, recorded lecture, assigned readings/viewings, discussion questions (choose 1, assignments. Discussion rubric: 25% of grade, one initial response (choose , due wednesday) and two peer responses (sunday, support your posts with references from assigned readings and outside readings, responses should be meaningful. Journal article analysis and critique: special population of gifted learner, read guidelines and rubric on assignment sheet, online library search for peer reviewed articles, article that really informs you about special population. Individual doesn"t have to be academic, can be any discipline as long as they are generally recognized.