Differentiating for the Young Child: Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas, PreKâ "3

ISBN 10: 1412975565 / ISBN 13: 9781412975568

Verlag: Corwin, 2009

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000594492

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Meet the highly diverse needs of primary students with these differentiated teaching strategies!

Designed to help primary teachers value and support the unique experiences and learning styles of diverse young learners,

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Joan Franklin Smutny is founder and director of the Center for Gifted at National-Louis University. She directs programs for thousands of gifted children in the Chicago area annually. She also teaches creative writing in many of these programs as well as courses on gifted education for graduate students at the university. She is editor of the Illinois Association for Gifted Children Journal, contributing editor of Understanding Our Gifted and the Roeper Review, a regular contributor to the Gifted Education Communicator, Parenting for High Potential and the Gifted Education Press Quarterly. Smutny has authored, coauthored, and edited many articles and books on gifted education for teachers and parents, including Igniting Creativity in Gifted Learners, K-6 (2009), Acceleration for Gifted Learners, K-5 (2007), Reclaiming the Lives of Gifted Girls and Women (2007), and Differentiating for the Young Child, first edition (2004), and Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Children (2003). Other recent credits include Underserved Gifted Populations (2003); Gifted Education: Promising Practices (2003), and Stand Up for Your Gifted Child (2001). In 1996, she won the NAGC Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the field of gifted education.

S. E. von Fremd is an independent scholar, writer, and editor with a background in education, cultural studies, and dance. She performed with the Never Stop Moving Dance Company in Chicago under the direction of Reynaldo Martinez and taught creative dance and theater to children in the city and surrounding areas. Her interest in creativity and culture eventually led her to do a doctorate in performance studies at Northwestern University. This included a year¿s research in Uganda, where she focused on the role of popular theater and dance in reviving cultural identity and educating children and young people throughout the country. She has written several book reviews on African musical traditions, a monograph on the cultural legacy of Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong¿o and Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, a monograph on refugees in Africa, and an article on the performing arts as a popular forum for education in Uganda. She has also given presentations on Ugandäs creative artists under the reign of Idi Amin and on dance movements throughout the continent of Africa. She collaborated with Joan Smutny on the first edition of Differentiating for the Young Child (2004) as well as with Igniting Creativity for Gifted Learners, K-6 (2008).

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Titel: Differentiating for the Young Child: ...
Verlag: Corwin
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good
Auflage: 2. Auflage