Book chapter
Rural Teachers of the Gifted
Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings, pp.341-362
Prufrock Press
2015
DOI: 10.4324/9781003237938-20
Abstract
Rural schools face challenges that make the provision of services for gifted students difficult. More than 40 percent of rural students also live in poverty, a situation that more often correlates with special education services than with identification for gifted programs, yet low rates of rural students identified for special education “reflect the unwillingness and lack of capacity to deliver the services more than the incidence of need for the service”. Teachers in rural schools have complex teaching loads, and they face demanding expectations, filling multiple roles in the district and teaching a variety of classes. Independent teacher learning is one type of professional learning that facilitates strategies for mastering national standards in gifted education that are critical to the talent development process. Professional development on behalf of place, community, a land ethic, and sustainability would depend on a different view of what the education of educators entails.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rural Teachers of the Gifted
- Creators
- Laurie Croft
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings, pp.341-362
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003237938-20
- Publisher
- Prufrock Press; Waco, Texas
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984531958802771
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