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”?
How might gifted learners with whom you’d work be different or distinctive as learners / as individuals from their peers in:
learning situations
in other situations?
Web page examples
How would this influence your work?

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

4. Goals for developing your knowledge base
Filling the gaps & building a foundation
Identification & Assessment
Tools, strategies, procedures: EDN 553 & beyond
Implications for instruction & practice
EDN 554 & 555

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

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

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
Services
Influences
Characteristics

11. Elaborating the Knowledge Model
Legislative Policy
Local
State
National

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