Your Passport to Gifted Education

This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced. The reader beco

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Monita Leavitt

Your Passport to Gifted Education

Springer Texts in Education

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13812

Monita Leavitt

Your Passport to Gifted Education

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Monita Leavitt Morgan Hill, CA USA

ISSN 2366-7672 Springer Texts in Education ISBN 978-3-319-47637-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47638-4

ISSN 2366-7980

(electronic)

ISBN 978-3-319-47638-4

(eBook)

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In 2011, Associate Professor Dr. Daiva Grakauskaitė-Karkockienė, a faculty member in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Lithuanian University of Educational Science and Director of the Educational Center for the Gifted (GABIŲJŲ UGDYMO CENTRAS), arranged for me to provide professional development for 15 teachers who would become the trainers of teachers working with gifted children throughout Lithuania. Afterwards, Daiva asked me to write this book to help teachers understand the uniqueness of being gifted and to provide strategies for intervening at an appropriate high level of learning to address their special needs. It is both an honor and a pleasure to dedicate Your Passport to Gifted Education to Daiva. For your creativity and commitment to inspire teachers globally and to build awareness for an exceptional population of children in Lithuania, Daiva, this book is for you.

Preface

Photographer Fran Hines

Over the past two decades, economic crises have impacted the field of education in countries such as the United States and Great Britain, which resulted in di