Career Education for Disadvantaged, Gifted High School Students

Closing Poverty-Based Excellence Gaps: Conceptual, Measurement, and Educational Issues

“…Meeting the needs of economically vulnerable gifted students has been a concern within the field of gifted education for some time. Many early approaches to the topic involved a focus on promising practices (Bernal, 1976; Miley, 1975), such as career and occupational interventions (Henderson, 1966; Moore, 1978), teacher training on gifted students living in poverty (Gear, 1978; Torrance, 1974), and modifications to curriculum and instruction (Baldwin, 1978). The emphasis continues to this day, with many Javits Act projects focusing, at least in part, on the talent development needs of students living in poverty (e.g., 2015 Javits grants awarded to the Colorado Department of Education and the Utah State Office of Education; see National Association for Gifted Children, 2015).…”

A Career Education Program for Gifted High School Students

“…Bmggett (1997), students' response in needs analysis, teachers' response in needs analysis As above. Support aspiration enhancement Clark (1992), Gross (1993), students' response in needs analysis, parents' response in needs analysis Clark (1992), students' response in needs analysis Clark (1992), Braggett (1997), Vick (1996), students' response in needs analysis Clark (1992), Pyryt (1992), parents' response in needs analysis Clark (1992), girls' supervisor's response in needs analysis Parents' response in needs analysis, Hoyt & Hebler (1974) Dusseldorp Skills Forum (1997), Gross (1993), Hoyt & Hebler (1974) Hoyt & Hebler (1974), Dusseldorp Skills Forum (1997), Braggett (1997) Hoyt & Hebler ( 1974) Braggett (1997), Hoyt & Hebler (1974), parents' response in needs analysis Kerr & Clairborn (1991), Moore (1978), identifying the aspects of a career that are personally important Braggett (1997), students' response in needs analysis, SRC response in needs analysis, parents' response in needs analysis meeting student needs for career education was therefore identified while theaspects ofa program to accommodate theneeds ofstudents, theschool, and the community were highlighted.…”

“…Career education programs have, in themain, provided for theneeds ofthe general secondary school student population. Inthesame way that the students at each endofthegeneral population spectrum -those in intellectually disabled student programs and those ingifted andtalented student programs -need special support to achieve their full potential intheir schooling experiences, thesame students also require career education programs oriented to meet their special needs (Clark, 1992 (Clark, 1992;Dusseldorp Skills Forum, 1997;Eby & Smutny, 1990;Gross, 1993;Hoyt &Hebler, 1974;Maker, 1982;Moore, 1978;Pyryt, 1993).…”