Location
Room 212
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
As professionals, teachers are responsible for instructing varied sets of students assembled in dissimilar classrooms. Therefore, differentiated delivery of curricula is needed in order to meet the various needs and abilities of any given population. Although gifted students are thought to be able to hold their own academically, they are in need of these differentiated curricula as well. Access to differentiated curricula provides for maximization of gifted students’ learning potential, while helping to deflect the effects of other issues which surface as a result of being academically gifted.
The purpose of this case study is to explore the social emotional, intellectual, academic, and physiological development of a gifted black male identified as at-risk. An interview was used as the primary method of data collection.
The preliminary results of the study center on two major themes: (a) Academic Development and (b) Social Emotional Development. Priori coding techniques were used to analyze the data.
Keywords
Gifted education, Gifted and talented, At-risk, Black, Black male, Minority
Recommended Citation
Littles, Steven and Prejean-Harris, Rose Ph.D., "Gifted and At-Risk" (2014). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 55.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2014/2014/55
Proposal
Gifted and At-Risk
Room 212
As professionals, teachers are responsible for instructing varied sets of students assembled in dissimilar classrooms. Therefore, differentiated delivery of curricula is needed in order to meet the various needs and abilities of any given population. Although gifted students are thought to be able to hold their own academically, they are in need of these differentiated curricula as well. Access to differentiated curricula provides for maximization of gifted students’ learning potential, while helping to deflect the effects of other issues which surface as a result of being academically gifted.
The purpose of this case study is to explore the social emotional, intellectual, academic, and physiological development of a gifted black male identified as at-risk. An interview was used as the primary method of data collection.
The preliminary results of the study center on two major themes: (a) Academic Development and (b) Social Emotional Development. Priori coding techniques were used to analyze the data.
