Differentiating for the Young Child Teaching Strategies Across the Content: Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas (K-3 - Couverture souple

Smutny, Joan F.; Von Fremd, Sarah E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761931090 ISBN 13 : 9780761931096

Editeur : Corwin Press Inc, 2004

Synopsis

Differentiating for the Young Child is designed to help primary teachers cope with the increase of diverse knowledge sets and different learning styles. This book addresses early identification by using differentiation and offers strategies and methods for intellectual discovery and creative thinking. It tackles issues relating to undeserved students, emphasizes key discipline areas, and discusses differentiated technology use. Forms, charts, samples, and appendices are included throughout the book to help general education teachers apply the material to their classrooms. This book to inspire educators to move in new directions to meet the diverse needs of young students

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Joan Franklin Smutny is founder and director of the Center for Gifted, a Northern Illinois University Partner. She directs programs for thousands of bright, talented, and gifted children in the Chicago area annually. She also teaches creative writing in many of these programs as well as courses on gifted education for graduate students at the university level. She is editor of the Illinois Association for Gifted Children Journal, contributing editor of Understanding Our Gifted, and a regular contributor to the Gifted Education Communicator, Parenting for High Potential, and the Gifted Education Press Quarterly. Smutny has authored, co-authored, and edited many articles and books on gifted education for teachers, parents, and administrators, including Challenging High Potential Spanish Speaking Students (2012), Teaching Advanced Learners in the General Education Classroom (2011), Manifesto of the Gifted Girl (2010), Differentiating for the Young Child, Second Edition (2010), Igniting Creativity in Gifted Learners, K–6 (2009), Acceleration for Gifted Learners, K–5 (2007), Reclaiming the Lives of Gifted Girls and Women (2007), Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Students (2003), Underserved Gifted Populations (2003), Gifted Education: Promising Practices (2003), Stand Up for Your Gifted Child (2001), The Young Gifted Child: Potential and Promise, an Anthology (1998), and Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom (1997). In 1996, she won the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the field of gifted education.

S.E. von Fremd is an independent scholar, writer, and editor with a background in education, cultural studies, and dance. She performed with the Never Stop Moving Dance Company in Chicago under the direction of Reynaldo Martinez and taught creative dance and theater to children in the city and surrounding areas. Her interest in creativity and culture eventually led her to do a doctorate in performance studies at Northwestern University. This included a year’s research in Uganda, where she focused on the role of popular theater and dance in reviving cultural identity and educating children and young people throughout the country. She has written several book reviews on African musical traditions, a monograph on the cultural legacy of Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, another monograph on refugees in Africa, and an article on the performing arts as a popular forum for education in Uganda. She has also given presentations on Uganda’s creative artists under the reign of Idi Amin and on dance movements throughout the continent of Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corwin Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761931090
• ISBN 13: 9780761931096
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible