Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners
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"Enrichment provides students with opportunities to extend learning," Dr. Roberts, the book's author, explains. "There are three primary purposes for enrichment: fostering interest; nurturing talent, developing expertise, or both; and increasing achievement."
This book shows teachers how to provide meaningful enrichment experiences for gifted students. The book offers effective strategies for enriching the curriculum and creating in-depth learning experiences both in and out of the classroom.
This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.
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Julia Roberts
Julia L. Roberts, Ed.D., is the Mahurin Professor of Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University. She serves as Executive Director of The Center for Gifted Studies and the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky.
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Series Preface
The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education offers teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other interested parties with up-to-date instructional techniques and information on a variety of issues pertinent to the field of gifted education. Each guide addresses a focused topic and is written by scholars with authority on the issue. Several guides have been published. Among the titles are:
• Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners
• Curriculum Compacting: An Easy Start to Differentiating for High-Potential Students
• Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners
• Independent Study for Gifted Learners
• Motivating Gifted Students
• Questioning Strategies for Teaching the Gifted
• Social & Emotional Teaching Strategies
• Using Media & Technology With Gifted Learners
For a current listing of available guides within the series, please contact Prufrock Press at (800) 998-2208 or visit http://www.prufrock.com.
Introduction
To enrich or not to enrich has often been the question. This question becomes increasingly important at a time when the major emphasis in many classrooms and schools is on mastering basic skills and core content at grade level. Enrichment opportunities are thus essential for those students who have already mastered the basic material. Educators who want all students to learn new things each day know it is imperative to offer enrichment opportunities to those who can demonstrate they already know most or all of what is being taught. Equity is offering learning experiences matched to needs, interests, and abilities; it is not offering the same learning opportunities to all children of the same age on the same time schedule. Life should be filled with enriching experiences that ensure that all children, including those who are gifted and talented, make continuous progress.
Enrichment is necessary because children differ. Even children born on the same day of the same year have different needs, interests, and abilities. For those who are gifted and talented, many of their needs are the result of their strengths. Strengths create the need for enrichment opportunities; and, if their identified strengths are to be enhanced, students must have opportunities to learn above and beyond what is expected for others their age. A child may be above grade level in all content areas or in only one. Even those who are gifted and talented differ considerably, so what is enriching for one may not be so for another.
Services for the gifted and talented need to include learning experiences with enrichment and acceleration opportunities. Some of these services will combine enrichment with acceleration in order to provide appropriate learning experiences for those students who are ready for more challenging opportunities to learn. Enrichment and acceleration are discrete services that work well in combination. The old question of whether it is better to accelerate or to enrich is meaningless, as students often need a combination of the two. The gifted and talented need to learn at a faster pace with more complex content; they need a rich curriculum with various