¡Atención! Recognize the strengths of Spanish-speaking students!
With the growing population of Hispanic students, it′s more important than ever to persevere beyond the language barrier and nurture their gifts and talents. This book provides teachers and leaders with the skills needed to uncover each child′s abilities and ultimately boost achievement for gifted Spanish-speaking students. Packed with strategies, suggestions, and materials teachers can use immediately to enhance instruction and assessment, this book shows how to:
- Recognize students′ unique strengths
- Identify and develop the gifts of bilingualism and different cultures
- Create challenging learning experiences for every student in the class
- Adapt tools and strategies to meet each learner′s unique needs
- Connect with parents and the greater Spanish-speaking community
Included are testimonials from teachers and students; examples of communications with and from parents; selected poems from gifted students; and inspirational stories from adults who overcame language challenges to earn college degrees and achieve successful careers. Too often, Spanish-speaking students are overlooked, miscast into special education, or not recognized for their abilities. This book shows you how to uncover the creativity in each one of your students.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Changing Landscape of U.S. Schools: A Call to Action
2. Bilingualism: A Cognitive Strength
3. A Cultural Primer
4. Recognizing Talents, Abilities, and Creativity in Your Spanish-Speaking Students
5. Identifying Gifted Hispanic Students
6. Effective Ways for Teachers to Connect Wth Spanish-Speaking Parents
7. Developing the Strengths and Talents of Hispanic ELLs: Strategies for Getting Started
8. Program Options for Advanced Hispanic ELLs: Putting Your Strategies to Work
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor
Joan Franklin Smutny is founder and director of the Center for Gifted, a Northern Illinois University Partner. She directs programs for thousands of bright, talented, and 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 level. She is editor of the Illinois Association for Gifted Children Journal, contributing editor of Understanding Our Gifted, and a regular contributor to the Gifted Education Communicator, Parenting for High Potential, and the Gifted Education Press Quarterly. Smutny has authored, co-authored, and edited many articles and books on gifted education for teachers, parents, and administrators, including Challenging High Potential Spanish Speaking Students (2012), Teaching Advanced Learners in the General Education Classroom (2011), Manifesto of the Gifted Girl (2010), Differentiating for the Young Child, Second Edition (2010), Igniting Creativity in Gifted Learners, K–6 (2009), Acceleration for Gifted Learners, K–5 (2007), Reclaiming the Lives of Gifted Girls and Women (2007), Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Students (2003), Underserved Gifted Populations (2003), Gifted Education: Promising Practices (2003), Stand Up for Your Gifted Child (2001), The Young Gifted Child: Potential and Promise, an Anthology (1998), and Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom (1997). In 1996, she won the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the field of gifted education.
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