Designing Professional Development for Gifted Education: A Practical Guide to Training Those Who Work with High-Ability Learners

by Kimberley Chandler Ph.D.

Designing Professional Development for Gifted Education is designed to be a useful resource book for gifted education teachers, gifted education program coordinators, and others who provide professional development services to practitioners who work with highly able students. The goal of the book is to provide practitioners with a definitive resource on designing, implementing, and evaluating professional learning opportunities for those who teach gifted students. The book will include an emphasis on the training needed for all of the stakeholders within the school setting who may work with gifted students, such as general education teachers, administrators, school counselors, and special education teachers. The authors will explore the NAGC-CEC Teacher Preparation Standards in Gifted Education, the NAGC Pre-K–Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards, and the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning as the bases for designing, implementing, and evaluating professional development in gifted education.

200 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2015