scholarly journals EPTS Curriculum Model in the Education of Gifted Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugur Sak
Keyword(s):  
Gifted Education ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Current State ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
Multiple Stages

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">In this article, the author reviews the EPTS Model (Education Programs for Talented Students) and discuss how it was developed through multiple stages, the ways it is used to develop programs for gifted students, and then presents research carried out on the effectiveness of this model in the education of gifted students. The EPTS Model has two dimensions: ability and content. The ability dimension has a hierarchical structure composed of three levels of cognitive skills. The content dimension is the extension of the regular curriculum but organized at four levels: data, concept, generalization and theory. Included in the article also is a brief critics of the current state of curricular programs in gifted education. </span></p>

EPTS Curriculum Model: Optimum curriculum differentiator for the education of gifted students

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-169
Author(s):  
Ugur Sak ◽  
Bahadir Ayas
Keyword(s):  
Program Development ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Component Model ◽  
Content Standards ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Curriculum Model ◽  
Two Component ◽  
New Curriculum ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Talented Students

In this article, we review the Education Programs for Talented Students (EPTS) Curriculum Model, its applications in program development, and research carried out on its effectiveness. The EPTS Curriculum Model, an enrichment model, was developed to differentiate regular curriculum and to design new curriculum for gifted students. It is a two-component model. The first component includes content standards at four levels. The second component is composed of three-stratum ability skills. Besides the EPTS Curriculum Model, the EPTS Curriculum Differentiator is used as a method to make acceleration and enrichment together in regular curriculum. The Differentiator has seven regions. Each region provides a different means to make differentiations in regular curriculum.

Beyond Gifted Education: Building a Shared Agenda for School Reform

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Sapon-Shevin
Keyword(s):  
School Reform ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Fear Of Abandonment ◽  
Gifted Education Programs

This article explores the ways in which gifted education programs as they are currently defined, designed, and implemented lead schools away from rather than toward broader school reform. The author argues that gifted education programs function as a form of educational triage, providing an excellent education for those students for whom educational failure would not be tolerated while leaving the general educational system untouched and immune from analysis and critique. Educational, political, and economic justifications for gifted education are explored with particular reference to alternative ways to conceptualize the debate and the response so that the needs of all students are addressed. Consequences for teachers, students, and society of implementing gifted programs are discussed. Some of the key issues critical to the reexamination of the gifted construct are then explored, including: silence, the pain of gifted students, characteristics of appropriate differentiation, the fear of abandonment of gifted students, the excellence/equity debate, and the possibilities of wide-scale reform. The article concludes with an elaboration of research and policy agendas that could move the educational system forward and avoid positioning school reform advocates, gifted education proponents, and full inclusion supporters in opposition to one another.

Looking Outward: Exploring the Intersections of Sociocultural Theory and Gifted Education

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly McGlonn-Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Sociocultural Theory ◽  
New Teachers ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Theory

As scholars in the field of gifted education continue to explore ways of improving the educational services provided to gifted and talented students, attention must be paid to the infinite amount of potential that an interdisciplinary theory offers. To this end, the following essay explores the intersections of sociocultural theory and gifted education. More specifically, it extends sociocultural theory to the field of gifted education by proposing a new lens for not only expanding the responsibilities of the field in terms of its ability to properly identify gifted students, but also for educating new teachers of the gifted.

Educating Gifted Children in Turkey: A Retrospective Analysis and the Current State

2021 ◽  
pp. 105678792110503
Author(s):  
Ahmet Bildiren ◽  
Mahmut Çitil
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Resource Rooms ◽  
Current Practices

The purpose of this study was to examine the education of gifted children in Turkey during 1923–2020 from an historical perspective and to evaluate the current practices in gifted education. Drawing from the literature review, we first report on the policies and the legal and corporate advancements implemented in the field of gifted education since the Declaration of the Republic. Subsequently, current practices in Turkey, including Science and Arts Centres, high schools for gifted students, and resource rooms, are evaluated. The results of a review of the relevant literature are discussed in the light of the current situation. In conclusion, it is understood that coherent and consistent policies in the field of gifted education have been developed more strongly in Turkey during the last 30 years, corporate advancements have also increased during this period, and scientific studies have gained an upward enhancement during the last 20 years. Despite all these advancements, it is concluded that current practices have still various deficiencies and should continue to be developed.

Gifted Education and the Spectre of Elitism

1986 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee Howley
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Gifted Education Programs ◽  
Intellectual Climate ◽  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

This paper explains current practices in gifted education as they relate to the schools' role in legitimating existing patterns of social stratification. It discusses the way in which the anti-intellectual climate of public schools fosters the provision of noncognitive instruction to the most cognitively apt students. In particular, the paper presents arguments to support the thesis that schools provide noncognitive instruction to gifted students in order to thwart their development as intellectuals. This phenomenon is especially germane considering the historical antagonism between intellectuals and the ruling class. Finally, the paper evaluates the extent to which gifted education programs are elitist. It suggests that noncognitive programs for the gifted are necessarily elitist whereas challenging cognitive programs for such students may in fact threaten the elitism of the ruling class.

Rethinking how we identify “gifted” students

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott J. Peters ◽  
James Carter ◽  
Jonathan A. Plucker
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Personalized Learning ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Talented Student ◽  
Student Identification ◽  
Talented Students

In the 21st century, what does a defensible, equitable model of gifted and talented student identification look like? For too long, gifted education’s reason for being has been unclear, and the students it has served have been from too narrow a segment of the student population. With renewed attention to equity and personalized learning, gifted education should exist as one pathway through which students can have their needs met. Scott Peters, James Carter, and Jonathan Plucker outline several best practices in identifying gifted and talented students that, if implemented, would better align with the goal of gifted education, while also improving equity.

Equality, race and gifted education

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Mazie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Socioeconomic Integration ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
Equality In Education

Educational programs for gifted students face both philosophical and practical challenges from egalitarians. Some object that gifted schools inherently undermine a commitment to equality in education, while others observe that schools for talented students cater to privileged youth and effectively discriminate against disadvantaged minorities.This article taps into recent theorizing on equality to explore an illuminating case study: admissions policies at New York City's so-called `specialized' high schools. After dismissing less nuanced proposals on both ends of the spectrum,I draw upon Elizabeth Anderson's theory of `democratic egalitarianism' to argue that, while schools devoted to talented students could be seen as consistent with a commitment to equality, admissions policies for these schools must reach beyond meritocratic principles to ensure diversity in their student bodies. Racial and socioeconomic integration of social institutions, including schools — and elite schools perhaps most of all — should be a priority for those who care about democracy.

Designing Instruction for Future Gifted Science Teachers

2015 ◽  
pp. 339-356
Author(s):  
Judith Bazler ◽  
Letitia Graybill ◽  
Meta Van Sickle
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Honors Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Gifted Adults ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
Methods Instructors

Honors programs are designed to provide talented students the opportunity to excel with a group of peers having a similar level of ability, motivation, and prior academic achievement. A problem that results is Honors Programs and education programs rarely interface, and thus, current models do not optimally serve the gifted adult who will become a science teacher. Gifted students are not easily identified in the science methods class. Notices about involvement from Honors Programs are often not forwarded to people in teacher education programs. Such lack of information means that science methods instructors must identify the students without benefit of Honors Program insight. This chapter discusses identification and curriculum for gifted adults.

Provisions for Gifted and Talented Students in Queensland Rural and Remote High Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Support Measures ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
Talented Students

This study investigated the provisions and other support measures available to gifted students in rural and remote Queensland high schools through a systematic website and document analysis. The aims of the study were to identify those provisions and measures being implemented for identified gifted students in rural and remote Queensland high schools, to identify the provisions and supportive measures that are being implemented most often, and the attitudes in rural and remote Queensland high schools toward provisions and supportive measures for gifted education. One of the recommendations of the study is the need for further in-depth research on provisions and supportive measures for gifted students living in rural and remote areas of Queensland.

University-based gifted programs for gifted and talented students in Hong Kong: Practice and evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Lai Kwan Chan ◽  
David W Chan ◽  
Xiaoyan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Gifted Programs ◽  
Enrichment Programs ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Talented Students

The development and implementation of regular Spring, Summer, and Winter Gifted Enrichment Programs, Gifted Students Exchange Programs, and the Gifted Peer Mentoring Scheme provided by the Program for the Gifted and Talented (PGT) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for gifted and talented students are briefly described. PGT also conducts research to advance the knowledge of gifted education and talent development and furthers the development of its gifted education provisions based on evidence-based information from research. Specifically, PGT does research on the assessment of giftedness and the special needs of local gifted and talented learners and conducts evaluation on gifted enrichment programs, course design and instruction, and students’ performance. The uniqueness of PGT, future directions in the development of university-based gifted programs, and program evaluation research in gifted education in Hong Kong are discussed.

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