Personalized Learning in Gifted Education

<p>Gifted students can exhibit extreme variance in both their abilities and their interests yet they are often treated within schools as one homogeneous specialized population. <i>Personalized Learning in Gifted Education </i>helps educators strengthen their differentiation of both instruction and services for advanced students.</p><p>This book:</p><p>• helps educators develop the specific gifts and talents of the gifted students they serve</p><p>• demonstrates how educators can utilize the wealth of data they have at their disposal</p><p>• provides a rationale and blueprint for a stronger more personalized approach to gifted education</p><p>• offers suggestions for both elementary and secondary schools.</p><p>Recommendations center around five features of personalized learning: personalized learning plans project- or problem- based learning competency-based progression through the curriculum criterion-referenced assessments and multi-year mentoring.</p>