1. EDN 552 Introduction to Gifted Education
Developing Knowledge of Gifted Learners and
Influences on their Learning

2. What makes a “gifted” learner?
Describe your interpretation/s of “giftedness”?
In what ways would gifted learners with whom you might work as an educator be different or distinctive, as learners / as individuals, from their peers; in learning situations; in other situations?
Web page examples

3. Your knowledge base
In what ways does your knowledge of gifted learners reflect any of the following factors?
History & Theory
Characteristics
Influences
Legislation/Policy

4. Goals for developing your knowledge base
Filling the gaps & building a foundation
Identification
(Tools, Strategies,Procedures; EDN 553)
Implications for instruction/practice
EDN 554 & 555

5. Components of the Knowledge Model
HISTORY
&
THEORY
INFLUENCES
LEGISLATION
POLICY
LEARNER
CHARACTERISTICS
KNOWLEDGE

6. Elaborating the Knowledge Model
History
&
Theory
Characteristics
Influences
Legislative
Policy
Foundation
Development
Cogntive
Affective
Socio-cultural
Physiological
Biology
Culture
Society
Local
State
National

7. Elaborating the Knowledge Model
History & Theory
Foundation & Development

8. Elaborating the Knowledge Model
Characteristics
Cogntive
Affective
Socio-cultural
Physiological

9. Elaborating the Knowledge Model
Influences
Biology
Culture
Society

10. Elaborating the Knowledge Model
Legislative Policy
Local
State
National

11. Knowledge Model: Developing Your Professional Knowledge Base
HISTORY
&
THEORY
INFLUENCES
LEGISLATION
POLICY
LEARNER
CHARACTERISTICS
KNOWLEDGE