Programming Opportunities for Students Gifted & Talented in the Visual Arts

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DIANE Publishing, 1998 - Education - 51 pages
Programs for artistically gifted and talented art students give recognition to students who, due to their outstanding visual arts abilities, require educational support, experiences, and facilities that go beyond what generally are available in art classrooms. This guide examines programming opportunities for these students, focusing on mixed- ability grouping, ability grouping, and acceleration. Presents research on the topic through national surveys, case studies, and evaluations of local and regional programs, discusses assessment, and makes programming recommendations.
 

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Page ii - Educational Sciences, US Department of Education. Grantees undertaking such projects are encouraged to express freely their professional judgment. This chapter, therefore, does not necessarily represent the position or policies of the...
Page 1 - gifted and talented" when used in respect to students, children, or youth means students, children, or youth who give evidence of high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop such capabilities.
Page 42 - Gordon, EW (1977). Diverse human populations and problems in educational program evaluation via achievement testing. In MJ Wargo & DR Green (Eds.), Achievement testing of disadvantaged and minority students for educational program evaluation (pp.
Page 46 - Zimmerman, E. (1991). Rembrandt to Rembrandt: A case study of a memorable painting teacher of artistically talented 13 to 16 year-old students.
Page xi - cooperative learning refers to classroom techniques in which students work on learning activities in small groups and receive rewards or recognition based on their group's performance
Page 1 - Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-297) is as follows: "Gifted and talented students" means children and youth who give evidence of high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership...
Page 4 - City such as the Bronx High School of Science and the High School of Music and Art.
Page ii - Office of Educational Research and Improvement, United States Department of Education. The Directorate of the NRC/GT serves as the administrative unit and is located at The University of Connecticut.
Page xxi - Issues and practices related in identification of gifted and talented students in the visual arts. Storrs. CT: The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Clark, G., & Zimmerman, E. (1994). Programming opportunities for students talented in the visual arts. Storrs, CT: The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Clark, G., & Zimmerman, E. (1995). "You can't just scribble:
Page 2 - Traditionally, our public schools have been concerned with academic subjects and... the search for gifted children has usually discovered the brilliant student in such areas. Mental testing has also often paralleled the school emphasis — excluding the arts — and again has identified as "gifted" those who are able to achieve in science, literature, mathematics, or history.

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