Researchers have long understood that children's drawings provide meaningful insights into the individual. This research extends previous use of Kinetic School Drawings (KSD) by asking students to represent their ideal as well as their actual school experiences. The drawings provide nonverbal documentation of gifted students' perceptions of their current school experiences and clearly indicate the changes the students would prefer in their schooling. Information on the particular educational preferences of gifted students can be applied, whether or not these students are served by special programs, to insure that their school experiences meet their unique educational needs.
This article discusses the advantages and challenges that educators of gifted, talented, and creative students may encounter when taking on the new role of classroom consultant rather than, as they have typically done previously, directly providing programming and services to the students themselves. A discussion of the use of the consultation model within a gifted education program concludes the article.
This paper reports the findings of two studies which compared the responses to using dialogue journals by teachers of the gifted and talented and their students. The purpose of this research was to learn more about the ways that such interactive writing can enable GT students to collaborate effectively in their own education. Study 1 sought to determine the types of discourse functions teachers used in the journals they kept with
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