Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School (6th Edition) [Hardcover]

Barbara Clark (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130944378 | ISBN-13: 978-0130944375 | Publication Date: November 4, 2001 | Edition: 6

This leading introduction to gifted and talented children retains proven parts of its original structure and combines it with the knowledge and best practices from a variety of sources. It incorporates knowledge from many disciplines and integrates best practices from classrooms to inform readers of how to work with children who grow up gifted and bring their gifts to the world. The author encourages readers to understand intelligence in order to help more children realize their unique potential of gifts and talents. New chapters contain the latest information on “hot” areas of interest: Outreach of Programs and Program Evaluation, and Planning for Integrative Education: Using Brain Research in the Classroom. A unique chapter on diversity considers the impact of gender, race, ethnicity, and poverty on the development and expression of giftedness—and offers interventions to overcome the barriers these cultural groups might present. Other content includes identification of special students and explores the issues and controversies surrounding the education of these children. For teachers of gifted and talented students.

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One of the leading books in the field, this edition offers the most interesting, information-packed introduction available to the characteristics of the gifted and talented children. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This leading introduction to gifted and talented children retains proven parts of its original structure and combines it with the knowledge and best practices from a variety of sources. It incorporates knowledge from many disciplines and integrates best practices from classrooms to inform readers of how to work with children who grow up gifted and bring their gifts to the world. The author encourages readers to understand intelligence in order to help more children realize their unique potential of gifts and talents. New chapters contain the latest information on “hot” areas of interest: Outreach of Programs and Program Evaluation, and Planning for Integrative Education: Using Brain Research in the Classroom. A unique chapter on diversity considers the impact of gender, race, ethnicity, and poverty on the development and expression of giftedness—and offers interventions to overcome the barriers these cultural groups might present. Other content includes identification of special students and explores the issues and controversies surrounding the education of these children. For teachers of gifted and talented students.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 617 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 edition (November 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130944378
• ISBN-13: 978-0130944375
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #652,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE book on the subject, January 24, 2003

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"copperpeach" (Wahiawa,, HI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

I suspect this is mainly used as a textbook for teachers or counselors and the like...but I bouoght it as a parent and I highly recommend this book.
I first saw a 1985 edition on our library shelves, read it and got so much useful information from it I took a chance on the newer version. I was not disappointed.
I have quoted and used this book at length in trying to educate the teachers and other staff involved in my son's education. I showed or told them what she wrote and quoted her, which lent some authority to my assertions.
She helped explain why my son is the way he is, in so many of his complexities. At last I understood why he reacts to things in such puzzling ways!
There might be other books on gifted kids out there, but I'm not sure they could beat her patient, highly educated, helpful tone.
Take notes as you go, there'll be a lot of things you'll want to find later to share with others interested in the same issues. Such as, one of the most important keys in finding an effective teacher for any student is the teacher's own self-image. Or, there IS a model of education that is shown to be effective for all levels of intelligence at once--the hands-on or whole topic curriculum (also called project-based). Or that the level of intelligence we now call gifted IS possible for all people to reach, if only they were raised in the "right" way--and that it is largely learned, not inherited. Or that teachers are a fairly poor identifier of the gifted kids; other kids are better at it!
These are my recollections only--but just as a sample of the kinds of things she says.
There's so much there you'll probably need to skip the parts that don't apply, or read more than once.

35 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I never knew what gifted was..., November 4, 1999

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This review is from: Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

Last year I stumbled across an older edition of this book completely by accident while researching a paper on inclusion/mainstreaming of severely LD/BD/ED kids. My parents have hidden (or tried to hide) my giftedness from me since they found out when I was three. This book sent my head spinning, but I'm glad I found it. I devoured it in about a day, and it left me hungry for more. Growing Up Gifted is a great book for parents, teachers, counselors, and the gifted alike. I learned a lot about myself. Ms. Clark touches on pretty much every aspect of giftedness more than well enough to give an ignorant, undereducated GT girl an excellent foothold in the climb to discovering what "this gifted stuff" is all about.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Changed from Edition 2, August 22, 2010

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Lauri E. Barber "teaching barber" (Mpls, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School (7th Edition) (Hardcover)

I loved Edition 2 but I see that it has definitely been updated for the Internet age.