REOL 531 Crystal Duke Website Assignment 2 Part 1: Council for Exceptional Children URL: http://www.cec.sped.org/ Summary: The CEC is a large international professional organization that strives to improve kids with disabilities and/or the gifted and talented in education. The Council for Exceptional Children has many opportunities to get involved within the organization; CEC leadership‚ board of directors‚ committees‚ workgroups‚ and representative assembly. In order to find prices I had
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grade sons had taken the year before. Until I was taking a class on the identification of gifted‚ did I even know that CogAT stood for Cognitive Abilities Tests. Therefore‚ I have had a steep learning curve. The aim of this paper is to consider the benefits of this group ability test specifically and when used in combination with other norm-referenced tests such as the Iowa Assessments in the identification of gifted students. The Cognitive Abilities Tests The Cognitive Abilities Tests(CogAT) are
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Gifted Education presentation outline Into: Hook: Gifted students can spend as much as half the school day simply waiting for classmates to catch on to the current lesson. (Smith 2003) There has to be a better way! Thesis: Research shows that using acceleration‚ in its many forms‚ is the best way to educate gifted children. Preview: Two of the most effective forms of acceleration are grade skipping and curriculum compacting. Body: Grade Skipping: what; benefit; myth What: single
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with higher intellectual capacity. The uniqueness of the gifted renders them particularly vulnerable and requires modifications in parenting‚ teaching‚ and counseling in order for them to develop optimally. In observing a resource room teacher gifted learner at the elementary and middle school level I found in the classroom bulletin boards‚ computers‚ visual aids‚ posters and many different kinds of books. In observing the gifted students there were six teaching strategies that were used
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phrases of “dropout’s children‚” “the best and brightest‚” “gifted and talented” (Miller 6‚ 11). Miller utilized the phrase “dropout’s children” to make the comparison between the children of higher educated parents to the children of lower educated parents. This demonstrates a division in their abilities and implies a sadden or sympathetic feeling to the audience. Similarly‚ she utilized the phrases “the best and brightest” and “gifted and talented” to show another division between the children
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personality traits of a classmate) ‚ you ask how I know all this about his about him ‚ its all here written in own his hands. Transition: Sometimes our eyes hide what our hands read. Since our palms‚ hands and fingers are all maps that tell us about our personalities and where were going through our lives. B. Reason to Listen: I bet everyone here has looked to his hands and wondered what those silly lines meant. Well palm reading provides the answer for all this. C. Thesis Statement:
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child in the song “Daddy’s hands.” Each writer is showing the important role a father plays in a child’s life from very different points of view. Both pieces have a very different portrayal of a father and are shown through the use of dominant poetic techniques. “My Papa’s Waltz” is written to resemble a waltz‚ traditional and elegant. The irony shown in what Roethke writes is that the waltz portrayed in the poem is tragic and clumsy‚ danced by a drunken man whose hands are dirty and beaten. Roethke
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Adam Surak Mrs. Leonardi English 1302 June 26th‚ 2013 Before the Leap In 2002‚ Brian Doyle‚ an editor for the Portland Magazine‚ wrote the critically acclaimed poem‚ “Leap”‚ in remembrance of the victims September 11th‚ 2001. Brian has also authored ten major books including The Grail‚ The Wet Engine‚ and the novel‚ Mink River. Doyle has written numerous essays and poems since 1999 including Credo‚ Saints Passionate & Peculiar‚ and Two Voices
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materials is kept. • Ask the child to carry the tray to the work area holding the tray on its sides with both hands and place the tray on the mat. • Introduce the material to the child. • Grasp the handle of the jug with the index and middle fingers of the right hand. The right thumb is placed on top of the handle. • Stabilize the underside of the jug with index and middle fingers of the left hand. • Gently tilt and pour in the bowls from top to bottom. • Since the activity involves pouring in two
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Research Issues in Psychology Critical Review of a Research Article Pupils who exhibit gifted characteristics along with another disability are referred to as twice-exceptional students’ (Morrison‚ 2001; Nielsen 2002). This term is used in the article that I have chosen to review‚ which analyses the responses and perceptions through interview‚ of one particular individual (Andrew) who was identified as being gifted and talented (G/T) and who had emotional and behavioural disabilities (EBD). What the
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