Assignment - Essay
This assignment requires you to prepare and submit a 1500 word essay.
Essay Topic: Growing Gifted Minds
Essay Question: Discuss three concepts of Growing Gifted Minds from the following list:
Choose 3 of these
-Cognitive Characteristics of Gifted Students
-Affective Characteristics of Gifted Students
-Identification of gifted students and intervention
-Models of Giftedness
Discuss the key concepts and explain the relationship between these concepts.
Provide 3 examples of the application of these concepts to explain how they can be applied in an educational setting. Ensure you support your discussion and examples with explicit reference to theory.
Integrate relevant research evidence to support discussion of key concepts using APA style of referencing. Use a minimum of 8 scholarly sources (references) - three of these must come from the attached readings.
Present work professionally, with clear academic writing with proper APA referencing style, including competently integrating evidence.
Readings-
1. Homeschooling the Gifted: A Parent's Perspective by Jennifer L. Jolly, Michael S. Matthews and Jonathan Nester.
2. The "me" behind the mask: Intellectually gifted students and the search for identity by Miraca U.M. Gross.
9 references.