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David A Sousa - How the Gifted Brain Learns - 9781412971737 - V9781412971737
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How the Gifted Brain Learns

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Description for How the Gifted Brain Learns Paperback. David A. Sousa brings the latest brain research to bear on how to engage artistically and intellectually advanced learners. This volume clarifies prevailing myths about the nature of giftedness, describes how to recognize and challenge gifted learners, and illustrates how to help when they underachieve. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 816.

"Pulls many areas of gifted research, knowledge, and applications together in a clear and concise manner. This is a one-stop book for teachers who have high-ability/gifted students in a classroom and need to understand how these students′ brains work and how to plan effective instruction."
—Mary Beth Cary, Teacher
Worth County Primary School, Sylvester GA

Identify, understand, and engage the full range of gifted learners with practical, brain-compatible classroom strategies!

What does it mean to be gifted and talented? The second edition of David Sousa′s best-selling How the Gifted Brain Learns helps bring clarity to this topic, leveraging the latest neuroscientific findings ... Read more

This reader-friendly guide gives elementary and secondary teachers the help they need to not only recognize and challenge their gifted learners, but also to support gifted students who underachieve. Acknowledging that students are often gifted in specific subject areas, the text includes chapters dedicated to talents in language, math, and the arts. Special "From the Desk of a Teacher" sections offer classroom-tested examples of the instructional applications suggested by research. In addition to featuring new research and expanded curriculum ideas, this second edition helps answer questions about:

  • How the brains of gifted students are different
  • How to gauge if gifted students are being adequately challenged
  • How to identify students who are both gifted and learning disabled
  • How improving programs for the gifted and talented benefits other students
  • How to better identify gifted minority students, who are often underrepresented in gifted programs

This resource is a one-stop shop of brain-compatible strategies for teaching the full range of gifted students!

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9781412971737
SKU
V9781412971737
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About David A Sousa
DR. David A. Sousa is an international consultant in educational neuroscience and author of more than twenty books that suggest ways educators and parents can translate current brain research into strategies for improving learning. A member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, he has conducted workshops in hundreds of school districts on brain research, instructional skills, and science education at the ... Read more

Reviews for How the Gifted Brain Learns
"A great book to use to assist preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and administrators with ways to meet the needs of all types of gifted learners."
Thea H. Williams-Black, Assistant Professor of Elementary Education "Each chapter offers the practitioner page after page of suggestions on how to apply the research discussed to educational practice. The applications sections are extremely intriguing and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for How the Gifted Brain Learns


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