Book chapter
Empowering Educators to Implement Acceleration: Professional Learning Is Essential
Best Practices in Professional Learning and Teacher Preparation Book Best Practices in Professional Learning and Teacher Preparation. volume 2 : special topics for gifted professional development, pp.159-184
Prufrock Press
2019
DOI: 10.4324/9781003233268-11
Abstract
The act of teaching requires deliberate interventions to ensure that there is cognitive change in the student; thus the key ingredients are being aware of the learning intentions, knowing when a student is successful in attaining those intentions, having sufficient understanding of the student's prior understanding as he or she comes to the task, and knowing enough about the content to provide meaningful and challenging experiences so that there is some sort of progressive development. Accelerated students are more successful, have higher productivity rates, more prestigious occupations and they earn more and increase their income faster compared to older, similar-ability, non-accelerated peers. Acceleration is one of the most curious phenomena in the field of education. Acceleration is a central consideration in gifted education, with close linkages to most definitions and conceptions of giftedness in childhood and adolescence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Empowering Educators to Implement Acceleration: Professional Learning Is Essential
- Creators
- Laurie J. CroftAnn Lupkowski-Shoplik
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Best Practices in Professional Learning and Teacher Preparation Book Best Practices in Professional Learning and Teacher Preparation. volume 2 : special topics for gifted professional development, pp.159-184
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003233268-11
- Publisher
- Prufrock Press; Waco, Texas
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2019
- Academic Unit
- Belin-Blank Center; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations; Teaching and Learning; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984531959302771
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